Legislation

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Old Mole variety Hour for March 9, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Roben White hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes: Bernie for President: Bill Resnick interviews media critic Jeff Cohenon Bernie and the Bernie campaign, the disappointment of Super Tuesday and how, in a two man race, he could win the Democratic Party nomi... Read more

St. Johns 1910: Riot & Rebels

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2020 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for: 
This week on KBOO Talk Radio, Linda Linda Olson-Osterlund will speak with some orginizers frrom the upcoming event aimed to honor Punjabi Freedom Fighters! In 1910, St. Johns was home to an ugly ethnic riot and the seeds of a radical Indian independence movement. On the... Read more

PSJ Lobby Day 2020

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2020 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On February 27th, Partnership for Safety and Justice (PSJ) held its annual Lobby Day in Salem, Oregon.  PSJ Lobby Day 2020 was its largest to date with participants from across Oregon converging in Salem to help ensure that their legislators hear about the values that ma... Read more

Ricky Barajas Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Ricky Barajas is a democrat who is running for Oregon's US House District 1 seat.  He talked with Don Merrill about his passion for the Green New Deal, why the deportation of people who are contributing to the country doesn't make sense, and why Oregon's democratic estab... Read more

Ricky Barajas Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Ricky Barajas is running for the US House of Representatives for the 1st District.  He talked with Don Merrill about how, if he gets into office, he'll do everything he can to implement the New Green Deal, why he didn't answer some questions asked by a conservative group... Read more

Don Merrill Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Don Merrill first interviewed Oregon legislators as a way of participating in democracy through journalism in 2014.  Then, he talked to 70 candidates.  In this presidential election year, he's doing it again.  But this time, though his passion is the same, his plans are ... Read more

Paige Kreisman Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Paige Kreisman is a democrat who is running for the seat in Oregon House District 42.  She talked with Don Merrill about why specifically pointing to her status as a transgender woman is important, why the state's campaign finance system needs an overhaul and why she say... Read more

Jami Cate Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Jami Cate is a republican who is running for Oregon House District 17.  She talked with Don Merrill about why town festivals might be the key to revitalization of rural Oregon, why trigger locks for guns is a bad idea and how being a fifth (or sixth) generation farmer is... Read more

David J Smith Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
David J Smith is a Republican who is running for Oregon House District 13.  He talked with Don Merrill about how he feels it was his generation that allowed the progress of the civil rights movement, why he considers himself a political moderate and how his potential con... Read more

Mike Schmidt Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Mike Schmidt is a non-partisan who is running for Multnomah County District Attorney.  He talked with Don Merrill about his experience with  number of Oregon judicial organizations, what his views are on the documented "School to Prison pipeline" that exists in Oregon's ... Read more