KBOO Community Radio episodes:

• June 15, 2026Old Mole Variety Hour for June 15, 2026

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the

  following segments:

   

  The Hidden History of Juneteenth: This week marks the celebration of the

  emancipation of African-Americans from slavery, a federal holiday known as

  Juneteenth. Trump would...

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• June 13, 2026Craig Florence

  Craig Florence has been called 'Byronesque' by The Huffington Post, though

  most people around him just call him 'Craig'. Having traveled around the

  world and lived in such far-flung places as Buenos Aires, Cairo, Cornwall,

  and Paris, where he did a stint at the famed Sha...

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• June 12, 2026Genius Box: Interview with Edan Krolewicz from Rip City Not Rip Off

  Today we're talking with Edan Krolewicz, creator of the 'Rip City Not Rip

  Off' campaign, pushing for a better Moda Center renovation deal between the

  City of Portland and the Blazers ownership. Althea and Reed have had this as

  a pet issue for some time, and it turns o...

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• June 12, 2026Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

  Main stories in this episode: the Lebanon nightmare; Congress and war powers;

  Trump assaults on the environment.

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• June 11, 2026David Rees - from the Archive

  David Rees is the creator of the satirical clip-art comics collections My

  New Filing Technique is Unstoppable and Get Your War On and a supporter

  of land-mine removal efforts in Afghanistan.  In this encore episode,

  David brings his project How To Sharpen Pencils, a h...

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• June 11, 2026Vincent Chu, author of Nice Places

  On today’s show, we welcome Vincent Chu, author of the debut novel Nice

  Places from Forest Avenue Press. Vincent’s the author of the story

  collection Like a Champion and his fiction has appeared in Muumuu House,

  STILL Magazine, Pithead Chapel, PANK Magazine, and other jo...

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• June 09, 2026Hepatitis C in Jails

  On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Hepatitis C in Jails.

  Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Lin Zhu, MBBS, PhD. Doctor Zhu

  is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Services Research and

  Policy, and Co-Director of Public Health Roundtables in the Depa...

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• June 09, 2026PSU Faculty's Fight to Stop the Layoffs and Cuts

  Join us as we talk with AAUP-PSU leaders Karlyn Adams-Wiggins and Bill Knight

  about the attacks on public higher education and PSU and how their union has

  been fighting back.

  Then join the rally June 16th!  RSVP – BoT and SEIU Fair Contract Now

  rally – Urban Plaza

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• June 08, 2026What’s Up with Ross Island

  There is a hole in the Ross Island Lagoon the size of Portland’s Moda

  Center, the result of decades of gravel mining. That hole is responsible for

  dangerous algae blooms in the lagoon that often spread out into the

  Willamette River, making the river hazardous for people ...

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• June 08, 2026Old Mole Variety Hour for June 8, 2026

  Frann Michel hosts this episode which includes these segments:

   

  PSU: Laboring for Education and Freedom

  Laurie Mercier speaks with Bill Knight, Associate Professor of English at

  Portland State University and president of the PSU American Association of

  University Pr...

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