Now the Portland Schools Superintendent has moved away from suggesting Vernon and Woodlawn schools for shutdown and has targeted Chief Joseph Elementary instead--all in the Jefferson Cluster. School Closure Part 2: What should we really do to reform our schools? What are your ideas on concrete steps we the people and our public officials could or should take to create an educational system that actually works? Call in 503-231-8187.

Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with journalist Arun Gupta about his article in In These Times magazine called, "Disaster Capitalism Hits New York." inthesetimes.com/article/14430/disaster_capitalism_hits_new_york

Gupta reports on the various proposals to safeguard New York City from future superstorms like Hurricane Sandy. In the wake of the storm, New York is now planning massive barriers and seawalls around the city, which could cost another $25 billion to construct. And yet, Gupta reports, planners freely admit that they have not taken into account the needs of low-income residents, thousands of whom would likely be displaced.

This episode, we're looking at the dirty underbelly of cycling: bike theft.

We'll be joined by Sgt Michael Frome from the Portland Police Bureau and Ian Stude, PSU's transportation options manager and bike parking expert. He says bikes were only recently surpassed as the University's most-stolen personal item. By laptops.

Later, Nick Watkin, General Manager of Kryptonite locks, and Daryl Slater, Kryptonite's Marketing Manager, will join us by phone from Boston to talk about the market trends they observe, what it reveals about bike theft, and how they educate customers (and retailers) about bike security.

For African American History Month, Treasures from the KBOO Archive will play a half hour program produced by George Page in 1977. The second half of the show we'll hear a speech recorded in 1992 by Dick Gregory. The speech was recorded at Reed College.

KBOO Black History Month special with guest Tariq Elite Nasheed