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Normal 0 Members of the Siuslaw Stewardship Group have just received a national award for ten years of collaboration on forest restoration.  The group’s work in the Siuslaw National Forest on the central Oregon coast is being called a model for modern forest management... Read more

The Portland City Council has voted to approve a bike-sharing program that would draw from two million dollars in federal funding. Portland is following the lead of a dozen major U-S cities that have had success with similar automated community bicycle programs, which make... Read more

Normal 0 Normal 0 A town hall meeting to discuss the sagging central Oregon economy and possible federal solutions might be lacking on key ingredient this week: Representative Greg Walden, The republican congressman for Oregon’s Second district, has not indicated t... Read more

Normal 0 Normal 0 Normal 0 Normal 0 Normal 0 The Portland city Council approved a city-wide food-scrap compost program today.  Composting will begin on October thirty-first throughout the city of Portland.  KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with Bruce Wa... Read more

Normal 0 With forty five thousand Verizon workers still on strike across the East coast, union organizers around the country say that the solidarity and passion of the workers has been inspiring to other efforts to empower workers.  Locally, at a recent meeting of Port... Read more

Today's Headlines Striking Verizon Workers Are An Inspiration City-Wide Food Scrap Compost Program Approved Town Hall Meeting To Discuss Central Oregon Economy This is volunteer powered and produced radio.  Please click below to enjoy the broadcast. Read more

  This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click the link below to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Crystal Leighty Producer: Evan Tenenbaum Engineer: Andrew McEwan PM News & Public Affairs Director: Jenka Soderberg Read more

  The federal anti-stalking law was recently applied in Renton, Washington by the local police department against an online cartoonist. Police officials were angered by a series of cartoon parodies of the department that were posted on YouTube. They were able to obtain a... Read more

  The U-S Postal Service faces unprecedented budget cuts, as the federal government continues to prioritize tax cuts for the wealthy over government services.An estimated one hundred twenty thousand union postal workers will lose their jobs in the coming year. KBOO labor... Read more

  Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) filed a lawsuit today in federal court against the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The lawsuit is an attempt to end cultivation of genetically engineered crops on twenty-five national wildlife refuges across the So... Read more