Monday, Sept 1, 2008
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Brandon Smith

First Newscast:

1. 23-year-old Carlo Alfonso from Spokane, WA has been killed in Iraq.

2. Austin Jenkins reports on two notable party luminaries from the northwest that will be absent from the Republican National Convention.

3. Doug Nadvornick reports on this year's chinook and sockeye salmon returns.

4. A hearing is scheduled Tuesday to determine whether an Ashland man can be released on bail pending a trial on charges related to what the federal government calls tax defiers.

5. Claude Offenbacher reports on the interim recommendations for school districts that maintain playing fields made from synthetic turf.

6. The Oregon State Police say 9 people have died in 7 accidents so far on this Labor Day weekend.

Center:

1. Rachael McDonald speaks with Vance Day, Chairman of Oregon's Republican Party about the scaled back day at the Republican National Convention.

2. Tom Banse sifted through regional economic indicators to see who is being squeezed by the slowdown.

3. Brandon Smith reports on the annual Labor Day picnic at Jasper State Park.

4. Mike Van Meter reports on the Labor Day picnic in Bend.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on survivors of clergy and child sex abuse beginning a month-long "Walk Across Oregon" campaign to help raise awareness and money.

2. Oregon state officials expect to make a decision soon about whether to reopen the state capitol tomorrow following a weeked fire.

3. Claude Offenbacher reports on the disruptive fans at last weekend's football game at Autzen Stadium.

4. The National Weather Service has issued a freeze warning for Central Oregon.

First Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on the continuing closure of the State Capitol building.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on the Republican National Convention resuming after Monday's pared down proceedings.

3. Along with Hurricane Gustav, Oregon gas prices have dropped.

4. Fatalities in Oregon over the Labor Day weekend were higher than average and the highest since 1997.

5. Dispatchers say the Oregon fire season going into September has fewer than half a dozen large blazes remaining.

6. Austin Jenkins reports on Oregon's death with dignity law is the subject of dueling articles in the latest Michigan Law Review.

7. Salem city officials say they'll have to cut deep next year to make a budget.

8. Glenn Mosley reports on the new contract and pay raise for Washington State University President Elson Floyd.

Center:

1. Interview with tenox sax player Houston Person about his upcoming gigs at this weekend's Jazz At Newport.

2. Austin Jenkins reports on how a decling economy impacts low income people.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on Lane Transit District's $3-million budget deficit and the proposed service reductions.

First Newscast:

1. Portions of the Oregon State Capitol building reopened today, but only to employees.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on a shooting incident north of Eugene Monday that will be investigated under a new state-mandated guidelines for use of deadly force.

3. Austin Jenkins reports on the deadly shooting spree in Washington.

4. Doug Nadvornick reports on the drop in Labor Day holiday travel.

5. Catholic churches in Washington are collecting donations to fight Initiative 1000, the assisted suicide measure on the November ballot.

6. An Ashland man has been charged with stealing the American flag he burned to protest the Iraq War.

Center:

1. Amanda Loder profiles a Spokane woman who lost her house, but kept her community, through the sub-prime mortgage mess.

2. Viz City's Terry Way reports from Jacobs Gallery as artists bring their pieces to be judged for the Mayor's Art Show.

Second Newscast:

1. A falling treetop has killed a logger in Southern Oregon.

2. Farm profits in Oregon hit a record of nearly $1.5 billion for 2007.

3. Andrew Bartholomew reports on the opening of the new Eugene campaign office for Democrat Jeff Merkley.

4. Anna King reports on a mosquito control district in Eastern Oregon that is launching an aggressive aerial-spray campaign to wipe out mosquitos that transmit West Nile Virus.

5. Friends of an Ashland man charged with an offshore money laundering conspiracy have urged a federal judge to allow him to remain at home in Oregon until his trial begins in Florida.

First Newscast:

1. The Pentagon says the remains of a Portland man have been identified as one of the casualties at Pearl Harbor.

2. A panel created by the legislature says the state government should take a central role in promoting health, universal access to health care and medical cost control.

3. Rachael McDonald reports on opponents of ballot measures 58 and 60.

4. Former Mayor Jim Torrey has won endorsements from 6 mayors of cities that surround Eugene.

5. Eugene Police Chief Robert Lehner may leave Oregon for California.

6. Phyllis Fletcher reports on the investigation into this week's shooting rampage in Washington.

7. Authorities are looking for a 62-year-old sex offender who was released from prison in June but cut the monitoring device from his ankle and dropped out of sight.

8. Smoke from grass field burning and dust from plowing is visible in the Eugene/Springfield area, but Sally Markos with LRAPA says this year is not one of the worst on record.

Center:

1. Angela Kellner speaks with Rob Bovett, Legal Counsel for the Oregon Narcotics Enforcement Association about how he's helped Oregon take the lead on tackling the methamphetamine problem.

2. Natural World correspondent John Cooney reports from the Old Santiam Wagon Road.

Second Newscast:

1. Governor Ted Kulongoski has proposed a ban on all grass field burning in the Willamette Valley by 2011.

2. Loren Parks, the biggest political campaign contributor in Oregon history, has donated another $175,000 for 2 crime-related measures on the November ballot.

3. Nearly 9 in 10 Washington State foster kids say the system treats them "somewhat or very well" according to a first-of-its-kind survey of foster children.

4. Congressmen Mike Simpson and Earl Blumenhauer met with about 40 people in Boise to help generate local support for a commission on America's 21st century infrastructure needs.

First Newscast:

1. Police have arrested a predatory sex offender in Salem after he cut an electronic monitoring device from his ankle and stopped reporting to his probation officer.

2. 6 charges of 1st degree murder and 4 charges of 1st degree assault were filed today against Isaac Zamora in this week's shooting rampage in Northwest Washington.

3. The Klcamath-Lake Employment Training Institute misused more than 1.6 million dollars in federal funds and is now closed without repaying the money it owes the government.

4. Motorists need to find an alternative route to a portion of Highway 38 this weekend.

5. Heather Meldrum reports on the past, present and future of biofuels in Oregon as discussed at the City Club of Eugene today.

6. Solar power is lighting the historic Ashland Armory.

Center:

1. Interview with Antoinette Moore about her legal case to restore land rights to Mayan villagers in Belize.

2. Interview with OSU Professor Gil Sylvia about next week's offshore aquaculture in the Pacific Northwest.

Second Newscast:

1. Austin Jenkins reports on Washington, Idaho & Oregon having below average vaccination rates for children.

2. Police in Grants Pass have arrested a fourth teenage suspect in a series of arson fires over the past two years.

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