A Story Told

It’s time for A Story Told on KMUN. Your host, Michael McCusker, has been a regular voice on KMUN’s airwaves since the 1980s. Each week he shares commentary and writings about the current state of just about everything.  This week, Michael talks about Donald Trump and war.

It’s time for A Story Told on KMUN. Your host, Michael McCusker, has been a regular voice on KMUN’s airwaves since the 1980s. Each week he shares commentary and writings about the current state of just about everything.  This week, we air a sort of hybrid show: Michael’s intro and closing remarks are new, but...

This week, at Michael’s specific request in honor of his mother’s birthday this month, we share once again a piece Michael wrote and has read each year on his show. It’s called Happy Birthday, Mother. A searing recollection of the reality of war, from his time in the US Marines during the horrific war that...

It’s time for A Story Told on KMUN. Your host, Michael McCusker, has been a regular voice on KMUN’s airwaves since the 1980s. Each week he shares commentary and writings about the current state of just about everything.  This week, Michael discusses Indigenous People’s Day and the history of Columbus Day in the US.

It’s time for A Story Told on KMUN. Your host, Michael McCusker, has been a regular voice on KMUN’s airwaves since the 1980s. Each week he shares commentary and writings about the current state of just about everything.    This week, we share an archive show Michael recorded around this time in 2018.

A Story Told’s host, Michael McCusker, has been a regular voice on KMUN’s airwaves since the 1980s. Each week he shares commentary and writings about the current state of just about everything.    In this week’s show, Michael reads from an essay titled, “The Second Declaration of Independence,” written decades ago by Robert Stanley Need,...

In this week’s show, Michael honors the opening of the 2026 Shanghaied in Astoria theater season by reading a script he (as one of the actors in the theater troupe) used to perform years ago to open the show. And he remembers Bloody Thursday,  the anniversary on July 5, of the violent 1934 West Coast...

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker commemorates the nation’s upcoming birthday with a look at the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship.

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker commemorates the anniversary of the start of the Korean War, and shares some recollections of his days as a US Marine in Vietnam.

This week on A Story Told, Michael McCusker shares a biting satirical piece he once wrote for his now out-of-print newspaper, the North Coast Times Eagle. It’s about the life and times of the infamous, and now deceased, former US Senator from Oregon, Bob Packwood.