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Todays Headlines: City of Portland's Office of Equity Lawsuit Challenges NYPD Stop-And-Frisk Policies Department of Justice Blocks AT&T and T-Mobile Merger This is volunteer powered and produced radio.  Please click below to enjoy the broadcast. Read more

    Evening Headline Organic vs. Non-Organic Food Subsides This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click on the link belwo to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Ross Freeman-Levin, Zeke Harrington, Crystal Leighty, and Sue Supriano Engineer: Andrew McEwa... Read more

  The Oregon Public Interest group has called on the federal government to stop subsidizing junk food. They say that small farmers have had to compete with cheaper goods that are worse for our health.   KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with David Gamberg this morning at the Ll... Read more

Normal 0 The city of Portland has severed its contract with the Fair Housing Council of Oregon after challenging an audit made by the group last May.  That audit found large-scale discrimination by race by landlords in Portland.  But now, Commissioner Nick Fish and ot... Read more

Normal 0 The City of Portland has terminated its contract with the Fair Housing Council of Oregon. Protestors rally in Washington DC and Idaho against the Tar Sands oil pipeline . The rate of illegal evictions of displaced Haitians swell as Haiti’s ... Read more

  Evening Headlines US Foreclosure Committee Dismissal Oregon's Largest Union Accepts Contract Cascadia Forest Defenders Interview This is volunteer powered and produced radio! Please click below to enjoy the newscast. Contributors: Joe Lino, Zoe Carpenter, ... Read more

  Members of Oregon’s largest union have tentatively agreed to a contract with Gov. Kitzhaber. Seventy-seven percent of Service Employee’s International Union Local 503 members approved the two-year contract. SEIU workers voted to approve the contract despite some sacrif... Read more

  The Cascadia Forest Defenders held a press conference in Eugene yesterday calling on the Oregon Department of Forestry to protect Elliott State Forest from logging. Over the last month, the group has held tree-sits, blockades, and a takeover of a state office to try to... Read more

New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was abruptly dismissed from a fifty-state committee overseeing foreclosure settlement negotiations with big banks. Iowa’s Attorney General, the leader of the negotiations, dismissed Mr. Schneiderman on the grounds that he’d a... Read more

Normal 0 Several Portland police have been arrested in off-duty incidents this week, mainly involving driving under the influence.  KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with Dan Handelman of Portland Copwatch about what this implies for the city’s police force. Read more