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Latest episodes
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Mark Hass Interview
Senator Mark Hass is running for Oregon Secretary of State. He seeks to fill the seat vacated by the death of Dennis Richardson. He talks with Don Merrill about why he thinks the h…
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Secretaries of State discuss their Voting Processes
Don Merrill talked with Secretaries of State of nearly a dozen states to see how they felt about their individual voting processes in advance of the 2016 election. He discusses the…
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Bob Neimeyer Interview
Robert Neimeyer is a Republican who wants to fill the seat that was vacated by former Governor Kitzhaber. He's critical of what he calls "stupidity" on the part of Democrats both l…
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Stephen Johnson Interview
Stephen Johnson is a home care specialist and a democrat who is running for Oregon Governor. He talked with Don Merrill about his support for guns in Oregon schools, why the state…
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Steve Phillips Interview
Steve Phillips is the author of the new book, "Brown is the New White", a critical discussion on changes that are coming to the American body politic in advance of the population s…
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Cliff Thomason Interview
Cliff Thomason is a gubenatorial candidate from Oregon's Independent Party. He strongly believes in Oregon agriculture and agricultural based solutions for some of Oregon's financi…
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David Taylor Interview
NOTE: On January 16, 2016, David Taylor sent out an email announcing the suspension of his campaign. David Taylor is an independent seeking the seat in House District 30. But his s…
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Mike Nearman Interview
Mike Nearman and I talked two years ago, just before he won his seat in House District 23 from Representative Jim Thompson. He's running for reelection and since then, Nearman has…
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David Gomberg Interview
David Gomberg is an Oregon democratic legislator running for reelection in House District 10, a slice of Oregon from Tillamook to Yachats and inland 50 miles. His passions are comm…
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Salvation Army Story
Paul Sowards is a bell ringer for the Salvation Army in Wilsonville, Oregon. He says the organization has saved his life as well as let him reach out to people in his own unique wa…
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Dan Handelman Interview
Friday, November 27, marked 5 years since the FBI set up Somali American teenager Mohammed Mohamud in a sting operation at the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at Portland's Pionee…
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KBOO Noon News 112715
Tune in every weekday at five for more local, national and international news produced by volunteer reporters in our Portland studios.
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Mic Crenshaw Interview
Mic Crenshaw is many things; a hip hop artist, a music ambassador, an activist and a co-manager at radio station KBOO in Portland. But one thing he is not is someone who holds his…
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Rosemary Gladstar Interview
Rosemary Gladstar founded the California School of Herbal Studies in 1978. Later, she and her family established Sage Mountain Retreat Center and Native Plant Reserve in Vermont. S…
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Sue Grafton Interview
Novelist Sue Grafton has just finished the 24th novel in her alphabet themed series of detective novels that she began in the mid 1980s. Her heroine, Kinsey Milhorne, has only aged…
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Karin Lazarus Interview
Coloradan Karin Lazarus had a brainstorm in 2009, start a bakery with pastries that are infused with marijuana. In 2013, NY Magazine called her, "the Queen of the Munchies" and sai…
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Richard Rothstein Interview
Richard Rothstein is a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute. He has written extensively on the effect of inequitable education on black and minority children in th…
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Rob Garfield Interview
Psychoanalyst and research Robert Garfield has focused on men and the friendships they form for many years. In his new book, "Breaking the Male Code", Mr. Garfield explores the rul…
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Oregon Public Employee Retirement System
The Oregon Supreme Court recently overturned the efforts of the Oregon Legislature to correct some of the funding problems as they affect PERS. I interviewed more than a half-dozen…
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Alice Eve Cohen Interview
Author Alice Eve Cohen has told two stories of personal upheaval that have visited her family in the last six years; "What I Thought I Knew" in 2009, and her most recent memoir, "T…