Monday, Oct 27, 2008
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Brandon Smith

First Newscast:

1. 21-year-old Private First Class Cody Eggleston of Eugene died from injuries sustained in Iraq.

2. About 1,600 voters in Multnomah County had their names mistakenly dropped from a voter database.

3. Claude Offenbacher reports on Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski's latest plan to combat global warming.

4. Tom Banse reports on a preview of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

5. Doug Nadvornick reports on the tight election race to represent Idaho in the U.S. House.

Center:

1. Interview with energy conservation expert Tom West about EWEB's energy fair.

2. Mixed Voices.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on Eugene researchers launching a web site aimed at helping young adults quit using smokeless tobacco.

2. The Lane County Jail was locked down for about 30 minutes today after an inmate tried to escape.

3. On Friday, six men attempted to sell potentially fraudulent magazine subscriptions to students near the UO bookstore.

4. Fewer children were placed in foster homes last year in Oregon.

5. Anna King reports on the expansion of a pilot program started in the Willamette Valley to recycle corks.

6. A work group says it plans to lobby state lawmakers to make substantial changes to Oregon's medical marijuana act.

First Newscast:

1. 24% of Oregon voters have turned in their ballots with a week to go.

2. Jes Burns reports on the mock election at South Eugene High School.

3. After 28 years in business, Cafe Zenon of Eugene has closed.

4. A Eugene software company, On Time Systems, has landed a five-million dollar contract with the U.S. Air Force.

5. Oregon-based Umpqua Bank is getting a boost from the federal government that will push it beyond regulatory requirements for capitalization.

6. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given Oregon State University an award for its use of 'green' energy.

7. After nearly a decade of public process and controversy, street issues in Eugene's Crest Drive neighborhood have finally been resolved.

8. A Southern Oregon man is charged with manslaughter in a hunting fatality over the weekend.

Center:

1. Interview with Alito Alessi and Larry Hamblen about the life and work of dancer and philanthropist Marisa De Leon.

2. Claude Offenbacher reports on a ballot measure that would remove term limits for the Mayor of Depoe Bay.

Second Newscast:

1. Rachael McDonald reports on opponents of a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal near Coos Bay say federal officials are not giving them enough time to comment on the project.

2. The City of Springfield is growing, but it may be growing faster than it can plan for.

3. Rejuvenated blue-green algae means Lost Creek Lake likely won't get a clean bill of health until mid-November.

4. KUOW's Liz Jones reports on the tentative agreement reached by Boeing and its striking machinists.

5. Doug Nadvornick reports on how Idaho's rising unemployment rate is leading to a higher tax on businesses.

6. Jes Burns reports on the decision to keep the Eugene spay and neuter clinic open.

First Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on five conservation groups filing a federal lawsuit in Portland against the lastest version of the Western Oregon Plan Revision, or WOPR.

2. The state's education department has placed 11 Oregon schools on a safety "watch list" citing concerns based on the school's expulsion rates.

3. Authorities say two Estacada men have died in the crash of a small plane that slammed into a stand of trees near a private runway.

4. Nike founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, are donating 100-million dollars to Oregon Health & Science University's Cancer Center.

5. A judge in Italy has decided to keep UW student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend in jail for trial in the death of her housemate.

Center:

1. Interview with Brandon Horton with Project Vote Smart.

Second Newscast:

1. Recapping our top story.

2. This Saturday marks the beginning of Lane County's mandatory home wood heating season.

3. The retiring board president of the Mount Ashland Association says expanding the ski area will make it more efficient to run.

First Newscast:

1. Tomorrow is the last day to mail in your ballot and make sure it gets to county elections offices in time for the November 4th election.

2. Mike Van Meter highlights the races and measures facing Central Oregon voters.

3. Early ballots are pouring in to Washington State's election offices.

4. Eugene's "Volunteers In Medicine Clinic" launched its annual fundraising campaign today.

5. A new seed-coating plant will allow Oregon grass seed farmers to protect their product locally, instead of shipping it out of state.

6. The discovery of 3 urns holding cremated remains at a Goodwill store is under investigation by police in Gresham.

7. Tiffany Kimmel reports on how lottery dollars will help give a boost to some of Oregon's unique species.

Center:

1. Tom Banse reports on an experiment in the coast range to track the competition between barred and spotted owls.

2. Natural World Correspondent John Cooney reports on a fall morning in the Willow Creek Wetlands.

3. Three Northwest reporters profile new political activists.

Second Newscast:

1. The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Governor Howard Dean, will be in Oregon this Sunday.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on the theater project of veterans' stories.

Friday, Oct 31, 2008
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

First Newscast:

1. State figures show 37 percent of registered oregon voters had turnin thier ballots as of today.

2. Just two of the 20 proposed marine reserves along the Oregon coast have found any support from Seafood Commodity Commissions.

3. Lincoln County opened a supportive permanent housing unity for the homless last firday.

4. One of the pioneed women in Oregon politics, Betty Roberts, addressed the City Club of Eugene.

5. It looked like a hand grenade, and that's just hte way salem police treated it.

6. The embattled Central Oregon & Pacific rail line between Coos Bay and Eugene may live to carry another train.

Center:

1. Interivew with Cast of Clowns.

2. Commentary by John Frohnmayer about publicly funded campaigns.

Second Newscast:

1. Obligatory Halloween warning by police.

2. A South Korean company has bought a Willamette Valley plant that bales straw and ships it abroad.

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