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Live from the International Cannabis Business Conference Pt Three

Airs at: Sun, 10/14/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week, we talk with Adam Smith from the Oregon Craft Cannabis Alliance about marijuana, interstate exports, and inevitable federal legalization; plus, more from the recent Commission on Narcotic Drugs intersessional meetings in Vienna, Austria. Read more

Looking Ahead

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline, host Doug McVay looks at two of the items on the Oregon Legislature's 2019 criminal justice agenda: Behavioral Health Reinvestment and Juvenile Justice. Read more

Poetic Justice: Knocked Down

Airs at: Wed, 10/10/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    KBOO news poet dan raphael is roaring back from Kavanuagh gloom. Read more

On the Ground with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief in North Carolina

Airs at: Wed, 10/10/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  RESIDENTS STILL DEALING WITH AFTERMATH OF FLORENCE AS MICHAEL APPROACHES   Even as Hurricane Michael promises to inundate the eastern seaboard, residents in parts of North Carolina continue to struggle with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence last month. KBOO reporter ... Read more

Protest Planned for Ehud Barak Visit to Portland

Airs at: Wed, 10/10/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  COALITION OF ACTIVIST GROUPS PLANS DEMONSTRATION TO CONFRONT FORMER ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER   This Sunday, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will be in Portland to speak at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center. A coalition of local activist and human rights grou... Read more

Buscando America on 10/09/18

Airs at: Tue, 10/09/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
La artista Mexicana Edith López Ovalles presenta en Guatemala la exposición 50 años después, México 1968.  Javier Sierra nos da del número gratuito para dudas y preguntas  sobre las próximas elecciones.  ¿Cómo utilizar las plantas para el embarazo? Read more

Live from the International Cannabis Business Conference Pt Two

Airs at: Sun, 10/07/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies, live at the International Cannabis Business Conference 2018 in Portland, Oregon, we talk with Washington state cannabis cultivator Farmer Tom Lauerman; plus, Orsolya Feher from Students for Sensible Drug Policy addresses the recent Commission o... Read more

Portland Housing and Realtor Cash

Produced for:  Evening News
               According to the Oregon Secretary of State's database, Oregon Realtors have invested nearly ten million dollars in political candidates and causes over the past decade.                Most expensively, Realtors spent Four point Seven Million to pass Measure ... Read more

Environmental Journalist Jeff Goodell in Portland

Airs at: Wed, 10/03/2018 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Jeff Goodell is an environmental journalist who has written about topics related to carbon pollution and the onset of climate change for Rolling Stone and in his own books. The most recent of those books was last year’s The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and ... Read more

Nationwide Prison Strike 2018: Updates from IWOC

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Clayton Dewey with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC).  Discussion will focus on the recent happenings with the recent National Prisoner Strike that started in August 2018. Prison rebels across the nation declared a nationwide st... Read more