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Big Hopes for the Oregon Journalism Protection Act (SB 686)

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
The Oregon Journalism Protection Act (SB 686) would create a funding system where social media mega-companies pay local media outlets for the content they use. The hope is that systems like this will slow the downward spiral of local newsrooms. The guests are, in the fir... Read more

Evening News on 06/04/25

Airs at: Wed, 06/04/2025 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this edition of KBOO's Evening News: About 20 percent of people currently enrolled in Medicaid could lose it if Trump's Reconciliation bill is passed by the Senate OPB and Lewis and Clark University are partnering to help journalists use the Oregon Public Records l... Read more

Radical Musicology: Black Power & Soul (archive)

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In this archive segment, Clayton Morgareidge talks with musicologist Brad Duncan about soul music and the Black Power movement.   Image: "Stax Museum of American Soul Music" by tpholland  licensed under CC BY 2.0. Read more

Portland Panorama Film Festival

Airs at: Wed, 04/09/2025 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
  On this edition of KBOO's News In Depth: KBOO's Lexus Ponce speaks with the directors of the Portland Panorama Film Festival on events and films happening during the 10 day film festival. Stephanie Hough and Melina Kiyomi Coumas talked about performances, live panels... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 2, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 06/02/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episide which includes these segments: U of O hunger strikes in support of Gaza:  Since early May, students on university campuses across the US have launched hunger strikes in solidarity with the people of Gaza who have suffered starvation after ... Read more

Craig Thompson - Ginseng Roots

Airs at: Thu, 05/22/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Craig Thompson burst onto the comics scene in 2003 with his graphic memoir Blankets, which won multiple Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz awards.  Blankets was followed up by the travelogue Carnet de Voyage, and the graphic novels Habibi and Space Dumplins. Now, Craig is ba... Read more

BLM History

Produced for:  Radiozine
First, Elizaha talks about Martin Luther King JR and his life's work. We discuss the impact of MLK's death on America.  Next, Gabby talks about the celebration of Black History Month. Gabby emphasizes the need to come together and lift each other up rather than bring ea... Read more

Terry LaBan

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Terry LaBan is a comics writer and artist whose titles have included Unsupervised Existence, Cud Comics, and The Dreaming.  He’s collaborated with some of the top names in the alternative and mainstream comics industries, and he teamed up with his wife Patty to create... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 12, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Copaganda: News media, public officials, and the police themselves keep telling us that public safety requires ever more policing, despite all evidence to the contrary. In Co... Read more

Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl from Heliotrope Books. Nancy’s work has appeared in Newsweek, Hippocampus, The Big Smoke, Nailed magazine, the Timberline Review, Elephant Journal, and several anthologies. Sunshine Girl is... Read more