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  Cover photo by Anna Wilcox    KBOO Community Radio stands in solidarity with the ICE Out General Strike. We support the immigrant community today and every day, and condemn the gruesome and unlawful actions of ICE in Minnesota and across the country.   We will conti... Read more

  Places to find food for those who lost SNAP benefits: (Compiled via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Oregon Live, KGW)   OREGON FOOD BANK Searchable database of places providing hot meals, boxes of groceries, and other goods. Search by zip code Expect to call a... Read more

Join us as we speak with Springfield educators Laura Farrelly, Megan Brown, and Brandon Ferguson. Read more

Tonight on Prison Pipeline, we turn our focus to hunger, poverty, and state policy in Oregon. Host Emma Lugo speaks with Andrea Williams, President of the Oregon Food Bank, about the release of the organization’s 2026 State of Hunger Report and what the latest data revea... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about Sculpted Light at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, which coincides with the Portland Winter Light Festival. https://pdxwlf.com/ Peabody talks about the gallery's big-name artists Dan Flavin and Hap Tivy, the difference between sel... Read more

Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert are back in the KBOO studio for a live February show. If you haven't already done it, this is your last chance for dormant pruning. But what exactly does dormant mean? Plus, yep, you can grow citris in Portland and western Oreg... Read more

My friend and KBOO colleague Judith Arcana passed away in December at the age of 82. Judith was a poet, writer, teacher, radio host, and activist. Her work includes a biography of Grace Paley – Grace Paley’s Life Stories – the poetry collections What if your mother, 4th ... Read more

Please join me as I jump the gun on Women's History Month to feature some of the women of Country and Rock-A-Billy music.  The stress will be on the earlier days, 20s through 50s.  You'll hear some familiar voices and maybe some not so familiar voices.  It's my Valentine... Read more

NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME On  Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 6 pm, Joseph Gallivan interviews collage artists Kirk Read and Angela Morrow about the show “Now What Remains: A Portland Collage Exhibition,” which is on now at the Alberta Street Gallery through Feb 23... Read more

  At 4pm, we welcome four amazing contributors to Portland, Oregon, and Multnomah County, civic and community life. They will tackle the prevailing turbulent discourse, and narrative: Immigration and Federal ICE Agents; the impact, the chaos, and a runway towards re... Read more