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Your government wants to see you naked. Abe and Joe discuss last week's Supreme Court ruling.

Airs at: Wed, 04/11/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   Justice may be blind, but your government wants to see you naked. Last week's Supreme Court ruling in Florence v. Bd. of Chosen Freeholders lets law enforcement impose a strip search for virtually any offense. It's another nail in the ... Read more

Yes, there really is a vast conservative conspiracy. Abe and Joe look at ALEC.

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   In the early 1970s, a group of conservative lawmakers and businesspeople realized that synchronicity between the governments of different states was the path to ideological supremacy. The American Legislative Exchange Council -- ALEC... Read more

Support urged for Crater Lake Wilderness Proposal

Airs at: Wed, 03/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
A coalition of environmental organizations are supporting the “Crater Lake Wilderness” proposal to protect the 90-mile wildlife corridor of forests, mountains and streams around Crater Lake by designating it as Wilderness. This would create miles of uninterrupted wilderness... Read more

Is Big Brother watching? Oh, yes he is. Abe and Joe look at the NSA's massive new spy center.

Airs at: Tue, 03/27/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   There's a lot of information flying around these days, more so than ever before, in fact. Keeping tabs on all of it would seem to be an impossible task. Not to worry, though -- Big Brother is up to the job. Abe and Joe take a look at... Read more

Report On Health Care Reform

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 As the Supreme Court takes up "Obamacare," Andrew Riley of the Center for Intercultural Organizing talks with the Old Mole's Bill Resnick about what that law does and fail to do to improve access to health care.  They also take up Governor Kitzhaber's program for Oregon an... Read more

The latest dispatches from the War on Women.

Airs at: Tue, 03/20/2012 at 12:00am
 Relax, vagina-having Americans, it's for your own good. Since taking power in statehouses across the country, not to mention the U.S. House, the GOP has wasted no time in addressing the most serious problem confronting the United States -- uppity women. Whether it's by wa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 19th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
     Tom Becker hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with local healthcare activist and worker at Sisters of the Road Michael Moore about Governor Kitzhaber's recently enacted healthcare plan. Tom Becker reads an article about how the B... Read more

Michael Moore on Kitzhaber's healthcare plan

Airs at: Mon, 03/19/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with local activist Michael Moore (not the documentary film-maker) about Governor Kitzhaber's new healthcare plan, community care organizations (CCOs) and the on-going struggle for single-payer or something like it. Michael Moore works with Sisters of th... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 03-15-12

Airs at: Thu, 03/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Sizing up Oregon's 2012 annual legislative session Last week, Oregon lawmakers adjourned the state's first-ever annual session. Among the legislation passed by gavel's fall were bills to create a health insurance exchange, reorganize and expand state early childhood program... Read more

Private gains, public losses. Abe and Joe look at Portland's biogas boondoggle.

Airs at: Tue, 03/13/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris We appologize for the technical difficulties with our Air Signal this morning.  If you missed today's show, you can listen to it here.    Why not take our food waste and turn it into a source of energy? That's the idea behind biogas, and the impetus f... Read more