KBOO News Team

Ahead of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before congressional appropriations subcommittees, several national civil rights and justice system reform leaders are speaking out. They’re concerned about a Department of Justice budget that shifts priorities fr... Read more

President and CEO Vanita Gupta of The Leadership Conference on Leadership and Human Rights is on the phone with civil rights and criminal justice reform experts who are sounding the alarm on the Trump Administration's DOJ budget request that is perpetuating the mass crimina... Read more

KBOO speaks with Margot Black of the Portland Tenants United about the House bill 2004, the no-cause eviction act.  After successfully passing in the Oregon house just earlier this year, the bill is struggling in passing in the senate.  Read more

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Police chief Mike Marshman are facing criticism on the way they handled Sundays Rallies in Downtown Portland.  Questions are being raised if they were antagonistic and unnecessarily violent. Read more

Yesterday evening Washington’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, or “EF-SEC,” closed its final hearing on the proposal to construct a 360,000 barrel-per-day crude oil trans-shipment terminal at the Port of Vancouver, Washington. Now the final decision is in the hand... Read more

Scrutiny of Leadership During Protests Falls On Portland Police Bureau Several protests and rallies converged last Sunday at Terry D. Schrunk Plaza. According to KBOO source Nicole Marsh and other eye witnesses, the Portland Police coerced protesters into Chapman Square, pe... Read more

Thousands of people gathered in downtown Portland yesterday, attending several pro-Trump and anti- Trump demonstrations and rallies. In an attempt to avoid violence by keeping opposing demonstrators from converging, the Portland police department was joined by law enforceme... Read more