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Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 7: Financial Issues

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2018 at 12:30pm - 1:00pm
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7.  Financial Issues: How to plan for a low-income life-style. You may be seeing lots of ads on prime-time TV these days about the benefits of “reverse mortgages.”  In this episode KBOO interviews Rachel Mohlere,  a leading specialist who feels that this type of arrangemen... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 6: Housing in Portland

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2018 at 12:00pm
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6.  Housing: The housing shortage; accessibility and planning.     Dr. Margaret Neal is the Director of the Institute on Aging of Portland State University…Her interests include nearly all the subjects we’re looking into in this series:  Designing age-friendly communitie... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 4: The Hollywood Center

Airs at: Thu, 07/05/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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We meet with Amber Kerns Johnson, Driector of the Hollywood Center, and learn about programs.  Or tour includes a discussion with the teachers of the ukelele and writing classes and a visit to the gift shop.  Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 5: Portland---Issues and Challenges

Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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In this episode we speak with City Commissioner Nick Fish on "Portland:  Issues and Challenges." Where are we headed, where should we be going? Commissioner Nick Fish has been a proponent of interests of elderly population in Portland for your entire career here, from the ... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 3: Medical Overview

Airs at: Wed, 07/04/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Dr. Mark Williams is  Board-certified in geriatric medicine and internal medicine.  He has a clinical practice in Wilmington, NC.  He’s Clinical Professor of Medicine, UNC and Professor Emeritus, UVA.  And he’s the author of a leading book on the medicine of aging,  The Art... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 2: Retirement in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 07/03/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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In this episode we interview Dr. Keren Brown Wilson, “grandmother of assisted living” in Oregon, and President, JFR Foundation.   Keren has over 30 years’ experience in long-term care and supportive housing. She was the principal architect of the Oregon model of assisted ... Read more

Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 1: Series Overview

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2018 at 11:30am - Tue, 07/10/2018 at 12:00pm
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This is the first episode in a 20-part series on what it's like to age in Portland.  In this opener, we give an overview of the entire series.   This episode includes many of the key quotes from some of the roughly 40 interviews we conducted.  Our guests include geriatric d... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 07/08/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Tune in to the Portland Jewish Hour this Sunday.  The show will be all about Klezmer.  I will be featuring the all-woman Klezmer band from Brooklyn called the Isle of Klezbos!!   Isle of Klezbos will be performing in Portland on July 12th at 8PM at the Alberta Rose Theate... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood

Airs at: Fri, 06/29/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
We talk books today on Mr. Jones's Neighborhood. And while Mr. Jones himself is barely literate, the Portland metropolitan area is decidedly not. We're a city of  great readers and writers, and, fortunately for those readers and writers, great independent publishers. We hav... Read more

Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Ken Jones talks with David Naimon, co-author of the new book Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing, from Portland’s Tin House Books. David’s book collects his KBOO Between the Covers interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin, the Portland-based master of science fiction,... Read more