On this venture into the Genius Box, Althea and Reed are joined by Electronic
Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn!
EFF is the leading nonprofit defending privacy and free speech in the digital
world, and Cindy has been a part of it for decades. Her memoi...
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It's another mouth-wateringly delicious episode of Genius Box for you on this
fine Friday morning. On this episode, state legislators can't resist the
thrall of not having any campaign finance regulations actually! And everyone
wants to get their little mitts on PCEF ...
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Within this episode:
ICE Agent called 911, threatened to shoot *checks notes* kid following him on
a motorbike
Strike a March? Is that anything? (Two PCC unions are prepped to strike over
wages and cutting a popular music program)
Portland reinvents the idea of bein...
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How could a subprime auto loan tycoon ever steer a poor soul wrong? Or a
whole bunch of souls, say in a city that likes its basketball team.
Reed and Althea are on the clock and ready to rock... on about:
Like all things that just turned 30, the Moda Center is as good ...
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The Canine Surveillance State Wants To Know What You Have In Your Pocket? And
Are You Sure It Isn't Ham?
(this is in reference to that weird Ring camera ad)
Your genius Genius Box hosts Althea and Reed discuss:
Holy cannoli, even more money hidden in the Housing Burea...
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Raise your hand if you got teargassed at the ICE facility at the Labor Rally
last weekend. Yup us too.
We're talking about it!
We're also talking about: the two Oregonians who ICE shot in Portland - it
was even more unjustified and inhumane than was thought previousl...
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If A=B and B=C, what could possibly be the relationship between A and C?
On this sojourn into the Genius Box, Althea and Reed discuss:
Portland's extra Housing Bureau $ that was earmarked for rent support could
get diverted to developers
The gas tax repeal could make ...
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There's more than one piece of data in this episode... terrible intro sorry.
Reed and Althea discuss:
Kotek's new Data Center Advisory Committee (and that the "boom" is actually
not so great for our communities)
ICE uses Medicaid data to find out where immigrants live, a...
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