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Air Quality

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Linda George, a professor in the department of Environmental Science and Management at Portland State University. Linda George studies air pollution in the Portland area and has contributed much of her work to environmental justice initiatives in Por... Read more

Dr. Juniper Simonis on the haphazard, sweeping use of chemical weapons and munitions by local and federal police at Portland protests

Airs at: Thu, 08/27/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  "Ted Wheeler and Chad Wolf think Black lives are so unimportant that they're willing to use hazardous chemicals indiscriminately... And every day, people show up to say Black lives matter and they're willing to put their bodies on the line." Tear gas, rubber bullets, pe... Read more

Drop into the Floating World with Threshold Shift Aug. 29

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
This Saturday, August 29 from 12 - 3am PST, Threshold Shift will be taking you beyond the Pale into the Floating Worlds of the Irish Sea and Panther Creek in the Wind River Watershed.  The show is getting back to it's ecophile roots for what we hope will be a soothing, con... Read more

The Floating World

Airs at: Sat, 08/29/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Sounds from the Irish Sea and Panther Creek   (Show transcription) Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift on KBOO 90.7 FM Portland. I'm your host Nicole Martin and in this quarter's episode we'll be getting back to our roots, our tap roots if you will, featuring long-f... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 10, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 08/10/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Insurgency and its Future: Mole bill Resnick talks to Emory Mort Portland activist and our street historian, who has been to over 50 BLM Protests over the last two months, and you c... Read more

Mt. St. Helens Eruption 40th Anniversary

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This May 18 is the fortieth anniversary of Mt. St. Helens last major eruption, which blew 1,300 feet off the top of the mountain and created the largest landslide in recorded history. Exactly 40 years, one hour and 28 minutes ago from the start of this week's Locus Focus, M... Read more

Bubblegum by Adam Levin

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between the Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Adam Levin, author of the new novel Bubblegum, from Doubleday. Adam’s work includes the novel The Instructions and the story collection Hot Pink. He's been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endow... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 4, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 05/04/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this special May the 4th Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear: Planet of the Humans: Jan Haaken and Bill Resnick critically review the new documentary, "Planet of the Humans" -- directed by Jeff Gibbs and executively produced/promoted by Michael Moore. Releas... Read more

Midnight Collages from Kill Ugly Radio

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
12:00AM: Kill Ugly Radio Part One: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick Mediascape collage of the life, times and fiction (and fictionalized life and times) of the visionary science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Sources: Films: The Penultimate Truth of Philip K. Dic... Read more

Press**Watch

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
What is the nature of the beast driving the pandemic?   Dr. Henry Niman, the world-renowned Ph.D. virologist, will return to Press**Watch to discuss the latest on COVID-19.  If you heard his January and February Press**Watch interviews, you know his analysis is essential an... Read more