KBOO Community Radio episodes:

• July 27, 2026DIRTY SECRETS: Data Centers Drive Demand for Gas in Oregon, Washington

  Rapid data center growth is leading to unprecedented demands for electricity

  in Washington and Oregon. Because both states have passed landmark climate

  legislation, committing to an electricity supply free of greenhouse gas

  emissions, utilities have been developing plans...

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• July 24, 2026the global citizen international digest

  Top stories in this episode: Trump resumes tariff war; Pentagon builds walls

  around itself; Israeli army and settlers are one in West Bank

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• July 23, 2026Roberta Gregory - Bitchy! Part Two

  Roberta Gregory grew up in a creative environment as the daughter of a

  Disney comic book artist, and soon established herself as a leading voice in

  the alternative comics wave of the 1980s and '90s.

  After contributing to the groundbreaking anthologies Wimmen's Comix an...

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• July 23, 2026Polly Dugan, author of The House of Cavanaugh

  On today's episode, we welcome Polly Dugan, author of the novel The House of

  Cavanaugh from Sibylline Press. Polly’s work includes the linked story

  collection So Much a Part of You and the novel The Sweetheart Deal. Her short

  fiction has appeared in Narrative and Line Ze...

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• July 22, 2026A World In Turmoil

  On this edition of Century: A World in Turmoil.

  In early 2025, abrupt funding cuts by the U-S triggered a major shock and

  widespread service disruptions across already underfunded harm reduction

  services and programs. One year on, and combined with the rise of more

  puni...

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• July 22, 2026Interview with the cast of The Interns

  Join us for Transpositive on Tuesday, July 21, at 6:00 p.m. on KBOO Community

  Radio 90.7 FM and streaming worldwide at kboo.fm. This week we welcome

  members of the cast of The Interns for a lively conversation about theater,

  social justice, and the importance of creating...

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• July 21, 2026James and Nate Schedule a Talk

  James and Nate talk about the trials and tribulations of scheduling a game

  night, taking time to actually talk to the people you are playing with, and

  giving games you didn't like a second try.

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• July 21, 2026Coffee Creek Lifers Launch 'Con Art' to Fund Reentry Support for Formerly Incarcerated Women

  On this week's edition of Prison Pipeline, we speak with Dr. Taryn

  VanderPyl, co-founder of CREW (Connecting Resources to Empower Women), about

  Con Art, a new initiative created by incarcerated women at Coffee Creek

  Correctional Facility to support women preparing to re...

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• July 20, 2026Portland's Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub: Organizing on the Brink of Disaster

  Six miles of toxic tanks have lined the North Reach of the Willamette River

  for nearly a century. But it’s only been in the past few years that elected

  officials in Portland have started to take seriously the existential crisis

  these tanks pose. And the reason that every...

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• July 20, 2026How to Give a Beaver Dam

  Oregon’s namesake animal is a critical keystone species, but due to

  colonization and the fur trade, beaver populations and wetland topographies

  have plummeted. Artemisia reports on the restoration work of BARK, a local

  community-centered nonprofit acting as a watchdog...

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