Cecil and Celeste welcome your calls. This program is open to local, national and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa.
"The Rent Is Too Damn High": Recent news reports and studies verify what many
people know: Individuals and families are being force to move out of their
communities because housing is becoming more expensive and affordable housing
is difficult to find.
Justin Buri, Inte...
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REVIEWING REVITALIZATION
Most of the business revitalizing in NE Portland has come through local small
business ventures. How can the same focus benefit the King neighborhood?
More Talk Radio asks your opinions on the local business versus Trader Joe
issue. Call and sh...
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Host Celeste Carey speaks with Sarah Anderson, who directs the Global
Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. They just released the
report "Wall Street Bonuses and the Minimum Wage," which says the New York
financial industry's bonus pool exceeded the annua...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Clive Thompson, author of
"Smarter Than You Think: How How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the
Better." Thompson argues that the Internet age has produced bold new forms
of human cognition, worthy of both celebration...
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Join us for a conversation with Deena Pierott about how women and people of
color are breaking the glass ceiling of economic opportunity in our region
and nation and how she is working to inspire male youth of color to become
tomorrow's techn...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with writer and photographer
Bradley Garrett, author of Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City,
published by Verso.
It is assumed that every inch of the world has been explored and charted;
that there is nowhere new to go....
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Greg Grandin, author of "The
Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World." The
book explores an American theme: the paradox of society aspiring to good
while acting profoundly immoral.
Greg Gra...
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Douglas Rushkoff about
his In his new book, PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything Happens Now, Rushkoff
introduces the phenomenon of presentism, or – since most of us are finding
it hard to adapt – presentshock.
Alvin Toffler’s ...
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Healing People, Building Community: Dr. Alisha Moreland-Capuia, Dr. Maggie
Bennington-Davis, and Cheryl Johnson, Ed.m QHMA join us to discuss Healing
Hurt People Portland, an innovative program that seeks to break the cycle of
violence that harms many in our communities....
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Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with journalist Matt Sedensky
about his reporting on older workers. They'll discuss his recent article
"Will Surge of Older Workers Take Jobs from Young?" Sedensky reports that
research economists at the Center for Retirement R...
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