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Positively Revolting on 01-28-11 Single Payer Health Care w/ Guest Dr. Paul Gorman

Airs at: Fri, 01/28/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
Single Payer Health Care in -- The Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Act Isn't it time we acknowledge health care as a right?  What could possibly make it alright for there to be a profit motive in health care?  Why should we endlessly capitulate to the private insuranc... Read more

Political Perspectives on 01/26/11

Airs at: Wed, 01/26/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
Host Jay Thiemeyer speaks with Dr. Margaret Flowers congressional fellow for the 18,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program, about a single-payer health care program. She will be one of the speakers at the Single Payer Health Care: State Wide Conference on Satu... Read more

Portland Public Schools Disposable Trays

Airs at: Wed, 01/26/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Portland publci schools has budgeted funds for new reusable trays in all the schools, but parents and students are still waiting. Several students and parents voiced their complaints at a Portland public school board meeting earlier this week. KBOO's Ben Renner has more.   Read more

America's oil habit is draining the Alberta Tar Sands.

Airs at: Tue, 01/25/2011 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris The oil contained in the Alberta Tar Sands is the dirtiest on Earth. Open pit mines bloom in the Canadian north, swallowing forest and tundra. It takes roughly five barrels of water and one of natural gas to extract one barrel of crude fr... Read more

Movie Moles: Marwencol

Airs at: Mon, 01/24/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Frann Michel and Jan Haaken discuss the documentary Marwencol, directed by Jeff Malmberg. Unable to afford therapy after a near-death assault, Mark Hogancamp devotes himself to building a 1/6th-scale World War II era Belgian village that he populates with dolls and props. ... Read more

ONS Medical Errors

Airs at: Mon, 01/24/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
In the past decade, medical errors have caused an increasing number of deaths. As the new executive director of the Oregon Safety Comission Takes Office, she offers perspective on what she is doing to avoid these. In collaboration with Oregon News Service, KBOO's Jamie Helm... Read more

Soup-centric Special: Ethnic Breakfast Soups; Soup Cycle; Frugal Soups; Campbell's Soup CEO

Airs at: Wed, 01/19/2011 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
Our January Food Show oh-so soup-centric! We begin with the first meal of the day, chatting about porridges and ethnic soups for breakfast with Paul Gerald and Nick Zukin. Gerald is the author of Breakfast in Bridgetown. Zukin, of ExtraMSG.com, wrote the section on Mexican ... Read more

THE MELTING POT WINTER MEMBERSHIP DRIVE SPECIAL 2011

        THE MELTING POT  WINTER MEMBERSHIP DRIVE SPECIAL 2011 Tuesday 2/1/2011 We will be showcasing Featured Label INTERCHILL RECORDS. That means well be focusing on their artists Bluetech, Gaudi, Kaya Project and more. We will be offering full length releases and compi... Read more

OR CAP Introduces Axis

Airs at: Fri, 01/21/2011 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
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Outside In Youth Radio Project: Sexual Health

Airs at: Wed, 01/19/2011 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
This week KBOO and Outside In worked together on a youth media project about sexual health. We have an interview with Nili Yosha about the project, and then work from William Madden, Rogelio Evangelista, and Eric Garcia about Violence Against Sex Workers, C, Mouse, Thor & T... Read more