Health

evergreen_web_banner.png

KBOO is open to the public! To visit the station, contact your staff person or call 503-231-8032.


Single Payer in Vermont

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Activists in Vermont are working to get their State to enact a single-payer health plan.  Bill Resnick talks with activist Traven Leyshon, a member of the Vermont Workers' Center.  Leyshon also broadcasts on Equal Time Radio in Vermont.   Read more

Do we live in a Democracy, Plutocracy, Fascist State, or something totally different?

Airs at: Tue, 11/16/2010 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris As the populist wave that swept President Obama into office gives way to Business as Usual, Americans are waking up to the realities of life in a Plutocracy. Both Frank Rich in the New York Times and Chris Hedges on Alternet reflect on th... Read more

Naturopath Dr. Elise Schroeder explains Cardiometabolic Risk and Remediation

Airs at: Mon, 11/15/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Healthwatch
 Hosted by Dr. David Naimon   What is Your Cardiometabolic Risk? Dr. Elise Schroeder, naturopathic physician, discusses how to fully assess your risk for cardiovascular disease and how best to treat it.   Read more

Voices from the Edge on 11/11/10 - Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
#cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } A celebration of civil rights: Susan Banyas and The Hillsboro Story Two months after the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision legally ending school segregation, the county engi... Read more

Left and the Law: Fort Hood Shooting

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about the army psychiatrist, Nidal Malik Hasan, who shot and killed 13 people and injured many more at Fort Hood last year. They consider him as both a victim of and collaborator in the Army's insensitivity toward mental illness. Read more

An election post-mortem and the path forward for progressives

Airs at: Tue, 11/09/2010 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris The story of the 2010 midterms -- depending on your perspective -- is one of opportunity lost. President Obama and the Democrats were swept into office in 2008 on a wave of populist optimism, with all their stars aligned. The country see... Read more

Mark Kastel from the Cornucopia Institute on Factory Farm versus Organic Egg Production

Airs at: Mon, 11/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Healthwatch
 Hosted by Dr. David Naimon   An interview with Mark Kastel, senior farm and food policy analyst at the Cornucopia Institute, about their report "Scrambled Eggs: Separating Factory Farm Egg Production from Authentic Organic Agriculture."     Read more

Gail Hornstein & "Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness"

Airs at: Mon, 11/01/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Madness Radio
 Host Will Hall interviews Gail Hornstein, Professor of Psychology at Mount Holyoke College. Her research spans the history of 20th-century psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. Her widely-reviewed biography To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Fri... Read more

Michael Blanding and "The Coke Machine: The DIrty Truth Behind America's Favorite Soft Drink"

Airs at: Mon, 11/01/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Healthwatch
 Hosted by Naturopath, Dr. David Naimon An interview with journalist Michael Blanding (The Nation, Boston Globe, New Republic) about his new book "The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind America's Favorite Soft Drink" Read more

Youth Collective Interview: Jessica Duke of The Rational Enquirer

Airs at: Wed, 10/27/2010 at 12:00am
Normal 0 Zoe interviews Jessica Duke of The Rational Enquirer, a youth-focused sexual health publication. The Rational Enquirer is published annually in conjunction with the Adolescent Sexuality Conference (April each year).  It is a magazine with articles on youth sexual... Read more