On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit Zenith needs to expand its dangerous fuel facility in No...KBOO Community Radio

In 2024 Oregon House Bill 4002 created the Oregon Behavioral Health Deflection Program to provide grant funding for deflection programs that assist individuals whose behavioral health conditions, including substance use disorder, lead to interactions with law enforcement...KBOO Community Radio

News reports claim that emerging technologies that will solve the climate crisis, such as hydrogen, are just around the corner. But in reality these technologies are risky, costly and don’t really work all that well. Hydrogen in particular would actually speed up climate...KBOO Community Radio

Last summer, we interviewed Kimberly King Parsons for her novel We Were the Universe, which had just been released by Knopf. Here we are, almost a year later, and Kim and the novel were just honored with the Oregon Book Awards’ Ken Kesey Prize for Fiction. While Jonesy h...KBOO Community Radio

And it's just like any other day that's ever been.Today's show concludes my official tribute to the life work of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. Picking up where I left off last month, you can hear more obscure tunes either covered or revitalized by Phil in his solo wo...KBOO Community Radio

Jan Haaken is a former nurse and psychology professor who taught at Portland State University from 1980 to 2011, and now works as a documentary filmmaker and radio programmer on the Old Mole Variety Hour, a weekly public affairs program on KBOO community radio.She rece...KBOO Community Radio

Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert are once again in the studio for a live show. We may not need supplemental water this week, but we will, and we have watering tips. Plus, there are myriad ways plants get pollinated, let's discuss. And Jim is always breeding pl...KBOO Community Radio

On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews the Portland Art Museum’s chief conservator, Charlotte Ameringer. Charlotte talks about her work restoring Claude Monet’s famous 1914 painting “Waterlilies” which he painted at his home in Giverny in Fran...KBOO Community Radio

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Systemic Racism in the Criminal Legal System.Recently at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Fourth Annual Session of the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement...KBOO Community Radio

Join us as we speak with 2 educators about teaching about Palestine. Email Oregon Educators for Palestine to connect with other educators at [email protected] Community Radio