KBOO Community Radio

Ambre Energy’s plan to export coal from Northwest ports came closer to reality when Oregon regulators issued the first draft permits earlier today.

Jonathan Goldstein is the host of the Canadian Broadcasting Company program "Wiretap", a satirical look at relationships and existentialism from the perspective of a middle-aged Jewish man. That perspective is now also in print in Mr. Goldstein's first book, "I'll Seize the Day Tomorrow." Don Merrill talked w/Jonathan about his love for words and their power for good and ill.

This week's Labor Radio show features an interview with economist Robin Hahnel digging into the argument of Friday May 24th's Op Ed "Austerity is not the way to fix Portland's Budget".

Ed Washington was a child living in Vanport, Oregon, in 1948, when the Columbia River flooded into the largest public housing project in the U-S at the time, leaving 18,500 people homeless, a large number of whom were black. The event changed race relations in Portland forever. 

He speaks with KBOO's Jenka Soderberg about life in Vanport, and the Memorial Day flood of 1948.

Movie moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement on The Great Gatsby, a film that has beautiful cinematography but lacks the original novel's complexity and critique of commodity culture.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer may ask a willing suspension of disbelief about the supernatural, but is simply in error on some real-world matters, including the difference between  jails (run by counties and holding those awaiting trial or serving short sentences for misdemeanors or certain other violations) and  prisons (longer-term, state-run or corporate-run).