Too Much Information with Abe and Traci

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Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Abe, Traci Trace

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Too Much Information with Abe and Traci on 04/16/24

Airs at: Tue, 04/16/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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End of (Pay)days

Airs at: Tue, 04/09/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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A billion-dollar lottery ticket was sold in Portland recently. A trifling story, or even a non-story? In an era of unprecedented wealth disparity, not so much. Join Traci and Abe as we tackle the question, “Does the world need billionaires?” Plus — Earthquakes! Eclipses! It... Read more

Day of (In)visibility

Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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The annual Trans Day of Visibility happened to fall on Easter Sunday this year, a coincidence that the usual suspects nevertheless framed as an anti-Christian conspiracy. Nonsense, of course — but also more evidence of what’s motivating the religious right, and what we can ... Read more

Schoolhouse rocked

Airs at: Tue, 03/26/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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As COVID relief funds run dry, school districts in the Portland area, and around the state, are looking at extended periods of budget cuts. What’s to be done? And who will bear the brunt of the lean times? Traci and Abe take your calls. Read more

Recriminalization

Airs at: Tue, 03/19/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Oregon’s experiment with drug decriminalization appears to be coming to an end, with Gov. Kotex poised to sign a bill that would undo many of the tenets of Measure 110. To the surprise of exactly no one, the impact of the law is expected to fall the hardest on communities o... Read more

Project (18)25

Airs at: Tue, 03/12/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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What would a second Trump presidency be like? Spoiler alert: not good. Traci and Abe dig into Project 25, the Trump team’s autocratic playbook. Join the conversation at 503-231-8187. Read more

Sophie’s choice

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Much ink has been spilled, and airtime devoted, to the unsatisfactory choices presented to us year after year by our two-party political system. Many alternatives have been proposed — protest votes, a viable third party, political abstinence, revolution. What is a progressi... Read more

Frozen in time

Airs at: Tue, 02/27/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are, in fact, people. Because of course they did. What does it mean for would-be parents in Alabama, and for the increasingly slippery slope of reproductive freedom? Traci and Abe take your calls. Read more

Twilight of the Boomers

Airs at: Tue, 02/20/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am

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Traci is away this week. In her absence, Abe looks at a column from Ezra Klein of The NY Times which makes the case for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race in favor of someone, well, younger. Is this possible, let alone feasible? What would need to happen in orde... Read more