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Converting the economy to Peace

Airs at: Sun, 11/30/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
The government  is about to spend billions to stimulate the economy.   What should they spend it on?  What can be learned from the post-coldwar period of the 1990s about that?  The Old Mole's Bill Resnick talks with economist Ann Markusen. Read more

Bush's Attack on the American Landscape

Airs at: Tue, 12/02/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 Host Barbara Bernstein invites Heidi McIntosh, associate director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, discusses the impact that some of Bush's midnight regulations could have on pristine and remote areas in southeastern Utah (which are among Barbara Bernstein's favor... Read more

Bird Rescue Program in Crisis

Airs at: Tue, 11/25/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A Vancouver bird rescue program faces an imminent foreclosure, and has called on the community to help. The Northwest Bird Rescue Center is headed by Christopher Driggins, better known around Vancouver as 'the Bird Man'. He's rescued hundreds of abused and injured birds sinc... Read more

Paul Ehrlich, co-author with Anne Ehrlich of "The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment"

Airs at: Mon, 12/01/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Chris Andreae speaks with Paul Ehrlich, co-author with Anne Ehrlich of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, one of the most influential and controversial... Read more

Burning Mustard Gas WMD in Umatilla

Airs at: Sun, 11/30/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Kathleen Stephenson invites guests Karyn Jones of G.A.S.P. and Richard Condit, Senior Counsel for the Government Accountability Project (GAP) to talk about burning American Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction stockpiled in Umatilla, Washington.   Last month, attorneys... Read more

Climate Day of Action

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
On November 18th, over 4,000 grassroots climate activists in all 50 states visited their Congressional leaders’ offices.  KBOO’s Crystal Leighty talks with K.C Golden with Climate Solutions about their visit to Senator Ron Wyden’s office. Read more

WOPR Treesit Rally

Airs at: Sun, 11/16/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A rally was held on Friday to oppose the Bush administration’s Western Oregon Plan Revisions, or WOPR. Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky came down from a week-long tree-sit on Friday and spoke to the rally. Read more

Salmon Dam Study

Airs at: Mon, 11/10/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A new study may have found that dams don’t have as much of an impact on salmon as we may have thought.  KBOO’s Brendan Grubb reports.  Read more

The Decider

 Apropos of my post below, Obama is planning to review the plethora of onerous executive orders issued by President Bush: President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is... Read more

Hillsboro Center Copes with Homelessness

Airs at: Wed, 10/08/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
With the explosion of growth over the last several years in Washington County, homelessness and poverty are also on the rise.KBOO's Eoin  Bastable brings us this report on a center that is trying to deal with these issues in Hillsboro Read more