Evening News

  Troy Davis, an inmate in Georgia has been scheduled, for the fourth time, to be executed for the murder of a police officer, September 21st. However, many people, including high profile figure from the Pope to an ex-President are concerned that an innocent man be execu... Read more

  A panel discussion on the use of force in the Portland Police Bureau is scheduled for seven to eight thirty tonight at the Portland Mennonite Church at South East Thirty-Fifth and Main. A current Portland Police representative and a reform-minded former Multnomah Count... Read more

Tonight's top headlines:   A rally is scheduled this friday for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose execution date has been set for September twenty-first.   The City of Portland will enact a Fair Housing action plan based on the recent housing discrimination study.   The s... Read more

  Hundreds of teachers in Washington State’s third largest school district picketed in front of the city’s major high schools today, hours after they voted to walk out of classrooms in Tacoma. Teachers picketed at the city’s five major high schools all day today. Issues ... Read more

    Evening Headlines Cleanup Continues at Hanford Nuclear Site Tacoma Teachers Begin to Strike School Suspensions Increasing This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click below to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Crystal Leighty, Ross Freeman-... Read more

  Suspensions and expulsions of students is increasing, in Portland Public Schools and across the nation. Children of color are disproportionately disciplined and pushed out of school.  Sheila Warren of the Portland Parent Union tells KBOO reporter Jamie Partridge about ... Read more

  Clean up efforts continue at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation along the Columbia River in Washington State. Ross Freeman Levin spoke today with Gerry Paulette from Heart of America Northwest, who was at today’s meeting of the Hanford Advisory Board. Read more

    Evening Headlines Port of Longview Workers Blockade Hydraulic Fracking Demonstration USS Liberty Memorial Held Brent Foster Law Bar Ban This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click below to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Zoe Carpent... Read more

  Union workers took over the Port of Longview Washington this morning to challenge the hiring of non-union workers by a grain export company. The workers say the hiring of scabs violates the agreement between the union and the management of the port. The standoff began ... Read more

  The Oregon State Bar has issued a month-long suspension to environmental attorney Brent Foster, formerly an aide to Oregon Attorney General John Kroger. Foster resigned as Kroger’s aide this spring over his involvement with a pollution case against Hood River Juice. At... Read more