Monday, February 8, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

 First Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports OR lawmakers find themselves facing a budget shortfall.

2. A new report shows OR agricultural sales plunged almost 15% last year.

3. The OR Department of Education say Portland's school district still isn't meeting federal standards for students learning English.

4. An OR group that represents minorities plans to offer scholarships for white college students to study race relations.

5. OR Law Enforcement agencies are starting a two-week crackdown on the three major killers on the state's roads.

6. The Obama Admin. asked congress for $65 million for the pacific coastal salmon recovery fund.

Center:

1. Interview with Carl Woideck about upcoming show.

2. Good Gardening: Lawns to Vegetables

Second Newscast:

1. OR public health officals are reminding parents they need to make sure that immunization records are up to date by Feb. 17 or thier children won't be able to go to school or child care.

2. Austin Jenkins reports a proposal to amend WA's constitution in response officer deaths.

First Newscast:

1. Morrow County DA Elizabeth Ballard is hired to help prosecute health care fraud in OR.

2. The President and CEO of Samaritan Health Services says it wants to add a 250-bed veterans' facility to its growing campus in Lebanon.

3. A Silverton woman has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after embezzling more than $200,000 from her former employer.

4. Jes Burns reports on efforts to fix the Cape Meares Lighthouse.

5. The Olympic torch relay made its only swing into the US early this morning.

6. Anna King reports on this week's Harvesting Clean Energy conference in Kennewick, WA.

Center:

1. Interview with Roger Ludeman with the Eugene Gleemen.

2. Chris Lehman reports on legislative efforts to help homeowners facing foreclosure.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on the Oregon DEQ holding a panel discussion about Georgia-Pacific's permit to discharge wastewater into the Pacific Ocean near Nye Beach.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on a Willamette Valley-based hop merchant giving OSU $1-million for hop research.

First Newscast:

1. Rachael McDonald reports on Eugene's Civilian Police Oversight Committee voting that an officer made a mistake in using a Taser on a non-english-speaking college student.

2. The Oregon House has voted to strike down a ban on teachers wearing religious clothing in public school classrooms.

3. OPB's Rob Manning reports on the Corvallis School District voting to drop full-day kindergarten where parents had to pay tuition.

4. Mike Van Meter reports on the Crook County School Board approving Powell Butte Elementary's conversion to a charter school.

5. The butterfly bush has been declared an outlaw in Oregon and English Ivy will soon join it.

Center:

1. Interview with Jack Czarnecki, the guest chef for the Fungal Feast at LCC.

2. Chris Lehman reports on new developments among groups set to sign a pair of agreements affecting the Klamath Basin.

Second Newscast:

1. Murphy Company of Eugene has bought a closed plywood mill in Rogue River.

2. Tri-met may impose a 5-cent fare increase.

First Newscast:

1. A grand jury says Portland police should be held accountable for an officer who shot an unarmed man in the back.

2. South Lane School District officials say an educational assistant at a Cottage Grove elementary school has resigned after a camera was found in a room where female staff members change clothes.

3. Rachael McDonald reports on the arrest of two men in connection with vandalism at Cape Meares lighthouse.

4. The state court of appeals says a former Portland TV personality should get more than $1.4-million in damages in a lawsuit against OHSU and one of its doctors.

5. Anna King reports on clean up efforts at Hanford.

6. Medford's Urban Renewal Agency has given the go-ahead for a $30-million renovation for part of the city's downtown.

Center:

1. Interview with Eugene Ballet's Artistic Director Toni Pimble about their upcoming show "Dark Side of the Moon."

2. Natural World with John Cooney.

Second Newscast:

1. Angela Kellner reports on the debate over hatchery and wild rainbow trout in the McKenzie River.

2. OPB's Rob Manning reports on the judge overseeing the federal government's plans to help salmon.

3. The ODFW is checking the health of bighorn sheep and other animals in NE Oregon.

4. Government figures show Oregon's exports fell dramatically last year due to the recession.

First Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on a plan to cut taxes on Oregon's working poor.

2. The Oregon Senate has voted to suspend extra "earned time" for convicts, trying to fix a 2009 law that gave convicts a chance to get out months early.

3. State police have identified a Toledo couple who died in a head-on crash on Hwy 20.

4. Doug Nadvornick reports on a Spokane jury clearing a Catholic boys' home of sex abuse charges.

5. A man convicted of murder refused to testify at the trial of his co-defendant.

6. Authorities say two elderly men survived a night in the cold after their SUV slid off a snowmobile trail.

Center:
Music in: Little Feat "Hate to Lose Your Lovin'"

1. Austin Jenkins profiles the fierce competition of the bail bonds industry in WA.

Music out: Tineke Postma "Motivation"

2. KLCC Commentator John Frohnmayer shares some historic power couples.

3. Anna King has a story of long distance love.

Second Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on Oregon legislative leaders informing the governor they will not pursue kicker tax reform this session.

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