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Monday, Feb 18, 2008 First Newscast: 1. Oregon parents with children enrolled in full-day kindergarten will continue paying tuition. 2. Salem Mayor Janet Taylor has given up her effort to keep a new state hospital from being built in Salem. 3. Some Oregon veterans will be eligible for extra funding under the recently passed economic stimulus package. 4. Washington state's tax revenues are down by more than $400 million dollars. 5. Anna King reports on a new Senate bill that would protect a vast wildlife area. Center: 1. Nicole Matthys interviews Ethan Radrick, author of "Desperate Passage." 2. Guy Hand reports on the rising popularity of tater tots. Second Newscast: 1. 28 Oregon sportsmen's groups held a news conference at the state capital today to call for action on climate change. 2. The Oregon Department of Agriculture will provide Lane County with a $250,000 grant to study whether it is feasible to turn annual ryegrass straw into alternative energy. 3. Austin Jenkins reports on a proposal in Washington state to put low-income preschool kids in school full-time. 4. Brandon Smith reports on Union Pacific officials say it will take at least 6 more weeks and millions of dollars to clear away landslide debris that demolished tracks 8 miles southeast of Oakridge last month. 5. Railroad executives say they're still evaluating Governor Kulongoski's most recent position on a closed rail line linking Eugene and the coast.
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2008 First Newscast: 1. The Eugene City Council today officially approved Jon Ruiz as Eugene's new city manager. 2. The deputy director of the Oregon Military department says he's decided not to run for the congressional seat that Democrat Darlene Hooley is leaving. 3. Jes Burns reports the Fairmont Neighborhood Association met last night to examine thier options on the UO arena issue. 4. Worries about the effect of the Klamath River dams on salmon have led to a free speech lawsuit against the Portland Transit Agency Trimet. 5. The US Department of Agriculture reports that CA, OR, and WA each lost 1,000 farms in just one year. 6. State Fire Marshals have seized over one thousand packs of outlawed cigarettes from five retailers throughout Oregon. Center: 1. Brandon Smith interviews film maker and author John Teton. 2. Viz City Second Cast: 1. Nick Demarino reports the seventh annual Poetry Downtown Series Kicks off today. 2. Oregon has received 1.3 million from the federal government to improve the infrastructure around qualifying schools. 3. A total eclipse of the moon is expected tonight. 4. Jenny Ulum has sold her PR firm, The Ulum Group to the firm's president. 5. Lane County DA Doug Harcleroad says Eugnee's Police Auditor hasn't broken any state laws. 6. Searchers say they're scaling back efforts to final a Salem man missing nearly a week at the Oregon Coast. 7. Oregon's COmmittee for Historic Preservation will meet soon to consider nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. 8. Notification letters will be sent to polic officials every time a person is released from the OR State Hospital. 9. The TSA Security checkpoint at the Eugene Airport was shut down today for further inspection of items inside a passenger's carry on bag.
Thursday, Feb 21, 2008 First Newscast: 1. Labor statistics show Oregon's private sector lost jobs in the second quarter of 2007. 2. Chris Lehman reports on the Oregon House's efforts to help homeowners struggling with high interest subprime mortgage loans. 3. The Oregon House has taken another step toward putting a measure on the November ballot as an alternative to a crime-fighting initiative by GOP activist Kevin Mannix. 4. The BLM says a shipwreck recently exposed on the Oregon coast is a wooden steam schooner that ran aground in 1944. 5. Tiffany Eckert reports on the numbers from the 2007 Oregon vineyard and winery report. 6. The Cascades Volcano Observatory in Washington has lowered the alert level for Mount St. Helens. Center: 1. Rachael McDonald interviews Blair Moody, President of the Oregon Logging Conference Board. 2. John Cooney brings the Natural World from Drift Creek Falls. Second Newscast: 1. A bill to reform the subprime mortgage lending industry squeked through the Oregon House today. 2. The Oregon State Bar has dismissed an appeal of a complaint against Governor Ted Kulongoski. 3. Rachael McDonald reports on the Bijou Movie Theater presenting the Academy Awards for the 11th year in a row. 4. Federal wildlife managers today recommended removing Northern Gray Wolves from the Endangered Species List. 5. Junction City will receive $4.9 million from state funds to prepare for the building of a new prison and hospital south of town.
Friday, Feb 22, 2008
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