KBOO News Team

  While in-person campaigning for local office is temporarily suspended, the race is still very much on. One challenger for Portland City Commission Position 4 is Keith Wilson. Wilson is a second generation Portlander and businessman with expertise in transportation, runni... Read more

    A new method of voting is being used by the Independent Party of Oregon in their 2020 Primary Election. STAR voting, which stands for Score Then Automatic Runoff, was first proposed by Mark Frohnmayer, who is also the founder of the Equal Vote Coalition. KBOO's Yas... Read more

  The coronavirus pandemic has opened up different avenues of thinking, including about the environment. KBOO's Jenka Soderberg interviews a regional representative from the CELDF about how this pandemic has managed to open up the conversation about the Rights of Nature as... Read more

  Students at Portland State University who are set to graduate this June received a terse email from administrators saying their graduation will take place online. Several student petitions have begun in response, asking for student involvement in the decision about thei... Read more

  The state of Wisconsin held an in-person primary election today – despite a state-wide stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus outbreak. Last night the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in with a five to four decision, which was highly criticized by dissenting judge Ruth Bade... Read more