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Stopping Zenith Energy Once and For All

Airs at: Mon, 11/18/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For seven years Portland community members have been trying to shut down Zenith Energy, a Houston-based oil company that sneaked into Portland in 2017.  The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality just opened the public comment period for Zenith’s draft Air Contaminant D... Read more

Unpacking November 5

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2024 at 8:00am - 9:00am
 What the hell just happened? The guests are Ani Haines and Teresa Mitchell. We’re unpacking the future. Read more

Striking Back at Northwest Natural

Airs at: Mon, 11/11/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Northwest Natural, Oregon's largest fracked gas utility, has been doing its best for several years to delay the region's move to full electrification. But in the past few months the company is getting its comeuppance in the form of an expanded lawsuit from Multnomah County,... Read more

25 TRIPP-P with Jesse Valencia

Airs at: Sun, 10/20/2024 at 12:15am - Fri, 12/31/2027 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
Portland, Oregon's independent music scene generates around $3 billion per year and is the last major U.S. city without a LiveNation venue.   "It is more than just the music scene. It is how we want Portland to be built." --Jesse Valencia   Jesse Valencia is a musician ... Read more

24 TRIPP-P with Q Landford

Airs at: Mon, 09/04/2023 at 1:00am - Fri, 12/31/2027 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
We found it! Tucked away inside the corner of a folder it never should have been anywhere near - the amazing conversation that TRIPP-P had with Q Landford about what has happened with AfroVillagePDX since they were last on the program from September 2023.   Q speaks abou... Read more

PSU Non-Tenure Faculty Fight Back

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Portland State University non-tenured faculty are facing massive layoffs just as their union contract is about to expire.  Labor Radio captures excerpts from a fight-back rally, prior to entering the bargaining room. Read more

The Problems with Polls: Part Two

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
If you’re following the polls obsessively, you’re putting your faith in a phenomenon that does more to undermine democracy than enhance it. So argues Samuel Earle in his recent review of a book by G. Elliott Morris, called Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need... Read more

False Promises of the “Nuclear Renaissance”

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker take up the current push by Amazon, Google and Microsoft to unite BIg Tech and Small Nuclear to satisfy their corporations' voracious appetites for electricity.  Business journals herald this new deployment of nu... Read more

Falling for the Biomass Delusion

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The UK-based bioenergy company Drax is coming to the West Coast. Drax, which faces accusations of misleading regulators by denying that they are sourcing wood pellets from old-growth forests, is now partnering with rural county supervisors in California to build massive woo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for October 28, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Genocide Gentry: The Genocide Gentry Project exposes the executives and board members of major weapons companies who also hold prestigious and powerful positions at museums, cul... Read more