Among the offerings this week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker shares some local history: the story of how Greenpeace demonstrators temporarily stopped the progress of a US Navy ship coming to Portland for the 1990 Rose Festival to protest nuclear weapons.

This week on a Story Told, Michael McCusker shares a fictional essay he once wrote for his newspaper, the North Coast Times Eagle, about an imaginary conversation between music legend Curt Cobain and a Vietnam vet, on the subject of suicide.   Michael also shares a piece about the arrival of a US Navy ship...

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker talks about the denial of the realities of war that is inherent in American culture.

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker shares an essay written by his now-deceased friend Arthur Honeyman. The piece commemorates a May 11, 1970, protest in Portland referred to as Bloody Monday. On that day, Portland Police clashed with demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War on the Portland State University campus.

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker honors a singular individual and an old friend who is now deceased.    His friend was a man named Arthur Honeyman, possessed with a sharp and eloquent intellect, but who suffered all his life from the ravages of cerebral palsy. Michael talks about Arthur, shares some of his poetry,...

Social and political commentary from local journalist, activist and Vietnam veteran Michael McCusker.

Michael reads a couple of pieces from recently deceased satirist Michael Graham and ends with some tea bag counciling.

Michael McCusker shares an essay he wrote about the role of media in an increasingly autocratic society.

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker reads an essay he published years ago in his newspaper, the North Coast Times-Eagle, about the history and evolution of the city of Astoria.

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker shares an essay he wrote titled, “One World for All.”