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Arts Tax to be Postponed Indefinitely

Airs at: Fri, 05/17/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Normal 0 Portland citizens voted in the Arts Tax last November, but since then the proposed tax has met with numerous issues, and still has not gone into affect. The tax will fund arts in the public schools, and will cost thirty five dollars to each Portlander m... Read more

Oregon State Senate Repasses Tanning Bill

Airs at: Thu, 05/09/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Earlier today, The Oregon state Senate repassed House Bill 2896, which prohibits teenagers under the age of eighteen from using tanning bed facilities without a note from a physician.The bill was sponsored by senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward.In Early March, the Oregon Hous... Read more

US Pirg Representative Explains how Large Corporations Doge Taxes with Offshore Tax Havens

Airs at: Wed, 02/20/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
KBOO's Jennifer Kemp spoke with a representative from US Pirg who explains the phenomenon of large corporations creating off shore tax havens to avoid paying US taxes. He explains that large corporations have gotten little resistence from Congress for their reluctance to pa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 29, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Clayton Morgareidge hosts this edition of the Mole, featuring discussions of consumerism and freedom, Syria, gun violence, and a conference on Labor History in the Pacific Northwest.  To keep up with the Old Mole, become our friend on Facebook.To hear the whole show, use th... Read more

Gun Violence and Gun Control

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Drawing on personal and recent experiences of a fatal shooting and on her own background of owning and enjoying guns, Old Mole Iven Hale reflects on the ambiguities and contradictions in efforts to control guns and gun violence in a society that breeds and provokes violence... Read more

Sonia Faleiro author of "Beautiful Thing" on women's rights in India

Airs at: Fri, 03/01/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  APA Compass
Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing, explains the culture of Bombay's Dance Bars and the recent social uprising around women's rights in India.Interviewed and produced by Andrew Yeh. Read more

Melanie Davis Interview

Airs at: Wed, 03/20/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Melanie Davis is the owner of the media company Brilliant Media.  Through it, she and her team of nearly 70 employees and staff nationwide operate Su Publico Ad Agency, El Hispanic News and Proud Queer Monthly.  Despite her youth, the road to magnate has been a long one, be... Read more

Illahee 2013 Lecture Series: Broadcast in its entirety on KBOO!

KBOO Community Radio is proud to broadcast all 2013 Illahee lectures. Who influences, controls, and owns other key aspects of our lives:  what we eat, the information we access, the environment, our own finances,  and our politicians? In short, who owns us? And what can we ... Read more

Voting Rights and the Supreme Court

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Justice Anthony Scalia has compared civil rights-era voting legislation to welfare entitlements, as if protecting the right to vote were a "government handout".  Well Read Red Frann Michel looks into the challenge to this legislation that has now reached the Supreme Court. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour February 25, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 02/25/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Alan Wieder hosts this episode, featuring music from David Rovics as well as an interview with him, a discussion of the economics and politics of mass incarceration, a review of a recent comic novel, and a commentary on the ideology of austerity.  Bill Resnick talks with D... Read more