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Quarantining with Sound Artists and Dungeons and Dragons

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  This Friday Night/Saturday Morning, May 30th from 12-3am Threshold Shift has another long-form radio adventure featuring new in-quarantine recordings and compositions from old favorites, Slavek Kwi from Ireland, Benoit Bories from France, and Dr. Jacob Job from Colorado.... Read more

KBOO 2020 Election Coverage

As we gear up for Oregon primaries on May 19th, and national elections in November, KBOO is committed to bringing you fair and accurate news about the elections and bringing you the voices of state and local candidates - both the well-known and well-funded, and those who do... Read more

Latest COVID19 News

Check our list of Oregon COVID19 resources. Click here for our daily 5 minute COVID19 news podcast in English Click here for our daily 5 minute COVID19 news podcast in Spanish   KBOO's Daily COVID-19 News Updates from March 2020 - May 8 2020 What to do - flatten the curve... Read more

Latest Statistics and General Info on COVID19

Tracking the Spread of the Virus: Current statistics on the spread of the virus - updated daily COVID Tracking project - tracking the number of tests administered, and the results of those tests For the latest information in Oregon: Oregon Health Authority Latest national... Read more

Theater For Change

Produced for:  Radiozine
Suzanne LaGrande interviews writer, educator and artistic director and founder of the Corrib theater. In the interview, Gemma discusses immigrating from Ireland to study theater in the Bay Area, being one of the few women theater directing students at UC Berkeley, why she f... Read more

Gospel of Trees: A Memoir

Produced for:  Between The Covers
On Between the Covers, Suzanne LaGrande interviews award-winning writer, teacher, and community activist Apricot Irving. She is the author of Gospel of Trees: A Memoir, a lyrical meditation on ecology, loss and the tangled history of missions in Haiti, which won the 2019 Or... Read more

Oregon #COVID19 Resource List

To add resources to this list, email web@kboo.fm Advocacy & Mutual Aid Efforts Link Type PDX Covid19 Mutual Aid Facebook group shorturl.at/cuKM8 Local group forming to support community members with free ... Read more

Free lunch pickup sites

Gov. Kate Brown announced a statewide closure of K-12 schools from March 16 to April 30th The Oregon Department of Education has free lunch info for all school districts in the state here. Washington schools are closed through April 24th   Here is a list of school distri... Read more

KBOO Responds to COVID19

Links to all the most updated information and resources from KBOO: LATEST NEWS updates about COVID19   NOTICIAS DIARIAS en español LOCAL COVID19 RESOURCES - including getting food delivered free, support for workers, how to volunteer, and much more FREE LUNCH pickup locat... Read more

KBOO Condemns the arrest of Broadcaster Frenchie Mae Cumpio of the Philippines

KBOO Community Radio joins our colleagues around the world, including the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC Asia-Pacific), in condemning the illegal arrest of Frenchie Mae Cumpio, 21, a community broadcaster and journalist associated with the Aksyon R... Read more