Evening News

A coalition of advocacy groups and patients have filed suit in the District of Columbia circuit court today. Their hope is to compel the Obama Administration to answer a nine-year old petition to reclassify medical maijuana. KBOO's Crystal Leighty talked earlier with Kri... Read more

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the U.S. Congress today. He addressed the precense of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. However, critics point to both Netanyahu and U.S. lawmakers failure to recognize Israel's own nuclear weapons. KBOO's Sarina Fong... Read more

Groups ask to reclassify medical maijuana Irael Prime Minister speaks to Congress Free Trade Agreements on horizon Open Reservoir Rate Hearing Our production team for tonights newscast is Joe Meyers, Ross Freeman-Levin, Serena Fong, Crystal Leighty, Joe Guyag... Read more

KBOO's Joe Meyer interviews Reed Smith Environmental Attorneys regarding the possibility of getting a variance which would allow Portland to keep our open reservoirs. Read more

  Normal 0 The Department of Energy took public commentary on the suitability of using Hanford as a dump for additional medical and industrial radioactive waste. Read more

Normal 0 teachers and students are protesting cuts to public education Normal 0 Teachers have rallied this month in Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and California, where last week more than a dozen teachers including the head of California's teacher... Read more

Normal 0 President Obama met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today. While the meeting was long scheduled, it comes after yesterday’s remarks by Obama during his speech on the Middle East that Netanyahu denounced. Free Speech Radio News... Read more

Normal 0 The Tennessee House of Representative voted by fifty-nine to thirty-nine yesterday, to restrict the collective bargaining powers of teachers unions.  A bill passed by the senate earlier this month would prohibit teacher unions from negotiating at all.    It’s t... Read more

Normal 0 Thousands of people came to Salem for a budget rally at the Capitol called, “Rally For a Better Way”. The focus was on pursuing an alternative, or “better” way of balancing the state budget, instead of relying soley on budget cuts. Karen Miller, an organizer fo... Read more

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