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Max Rameau and the Take Back The Land Movement

Airs at: Wed, 11/18/2009 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
 Max Rameau  is the founder of the Miami-based organization Take Back the Land. In 2006, the organization seized control of a vacant lot and built a shantytown called Umoja Village. Take Back the Land then began a campaign of taking over bank-owned foreclosed homes and m... Read more

Dr. Don Thieman on the Health Care Industry

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 KBOO reporter David Rosenfeld speaks with Dr. Don Thieman, a former medical director of Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon. Thieman is now a medical director for CareOregon, which administers the Oregon Health Plan. With a front row seat to some of healthcare’s toug... Read more

Dietician Nancy Sullivan on diet and nutrition for people in hospice

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
 Health and Health Care Forum Hosted by Roberta HallToday, we'll hear Part Two of a two-part interview with dietician Nancy Sullivan who works with people in hospice. Read more

Evening News on 12/14/09

Airs at: Mon, 12/14/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Dr. Don Thieman, a former medical director at Regence Bluecross Blueshield of Oregon says people have nothing to fear in the current push to reform healthcare. By and large those in government have our interests at heart much more than people in the insurance industry, h... Read more

Queer Open House & Recruitment for The Other Team, Queer Youth Radio Show

Calling all Portland area youth:: do you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning or are an ally to the queer community? KBOO is hosting two open houses for The Other Team recruitment: Sunday Dec 20 from 3-5 pm and Monday Dec 28 from 5-7 pm. We need Y... Read more

Voices from the Edge: What's behind Oregon's domestic violence murders-suicides?

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 2... Read more

Dietician Nancy Sullivan talks about nutrition and diet in hospice care.

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Health and Healthcare Forum with host Roberta Hall. Robert Hall hosts Part One of a two-part interview with dietician Nancy Sullivan, who works with people in hospice.  Read more

Lori Gregory, caretaker of Rojo the Llama, talks about animal-assisted therapy.

Airs at: Wed, 11/25/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Erik Jorgensen hosts. His guests are Lori and Shannon Gregory, caretaker of Rojo the Llama, who will talk about animal-assisted therapy. Read more

Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog on the Sad State of the Health Care Debacle

Airs at: Tue, 11/24/2009 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris  Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog joins Abe and Joe for a perusal of the health care legislation that has emerged from the House and that which should shortly be produced by the Senate.  Surprise -- the insurance industry is going t... Read more

November 23 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Do higher taxes make for fewer jobs -- or more?  Is Congress debating real healthcare reform -- or just another corporate bailout?  Is PTSD a good way to think about how people are  affected by violence?   This show takes on these questions, with host Tom Becker, Old Mol... Read more