Economy

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Kaiser Workers on the Strike Line

Airs at: Mon, 10/27/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
In a series of short interviews on the Kaiser Workers Strike Line, October 14-19, we hear from nurses, a mental health professional, caring kids, and a nurse from Providence on the line in solidarity.  Staffing, wages, schedules and control over the work are chronic issu... Read more

The Noxious Spread of Data Centers, Part One

Airs at: Mon, 10/27/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A high tech type of noxious weed is spreading across Oregon. For several years data centers have been popping up across the state, destroying farmland and habitat. Enticed by abundant water and energy and tax breaks from cash strapped local communities, high tech compani... Read more

The Myth of Carbon Pricing

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A glaring unspoken dynamic orbits around the myth of carbon pricing as an economically effective means to address climate change. The assumption that carbon pricing works to avoid catastrophic climate chaos takes on a mythical quality, even as the data and science show t... Read more

Stop NW Gas Expansion

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The fossil gas industry knows that it's being driven out of business because there are so many actual clean alternatives now to what the industry has deceptively dubbed "natural" gas. But instead of gracefully going away or transitioning to fill another niche in our ener... Read more

Fighting Layoffs at University of Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Sophia Jones of the University of Oregon Student Workers and Chris Sinclair of the United Academics of the U of O discuss the impending layoffs of faculty and other campus workers, the reasons behind these and other attacks on Oregon's universities and the union fightback. Read more

The CEI Hub: A City Council Perspective

Airs at: Mon, 09/29/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Until recently very few Portlanders spoke about, let along fretted over the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub along the North Reach of the Willamette River. But in the last couple years it has become more of a public concern because of the inherent danger of stori... Read more

Labcorp Workers for a First Contract

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Maleah Paisley and Allister Brister-Smith, medical lab workers for Labcorp, a for-profit, multi-national corporation, discuss their struggle for a first union contract.  Labcorp recently took over the labs at non-profit Legacy and Providence facilities, driving down work... Read more

What Can We Do About The CEI Hub

Airs at: Mon, 09/22/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For decades the six mile long tank farm along the north reach of the Willamette River, known as the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub (CEI hub), has lurked with its toxic stew of liquid fossil fuels and chemicals, seemingly unnoticed by most Portlanders. Except for its ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for September 15, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Mole, which includes the following segments: War and Climate Chaos: Laurie Mercier speaks with antiwar and climate activist Janet Weil, who discusses the Veterans for Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. They also disc... Read more

Occupy Wall Street: An American Dream

Airs at: Mon, 09/15/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
         In the Great Recession (2007-2009), Wall Street crashed the economy but got rewarded with billions of dollars in government bailouts, while millions of Americans—unemployed, homeless, desperate—had nowhere to go for help. When a small group of people responded ... Read more