Monday, March 1, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

First Newscast:

1. Ten days of school are added back to the Bethel District's calendar.

2. The City of Eugene is putting out a request for proposals to build affordable housing on a 3-acre site in west Eugene.

3. Rachael McDonald reports on a public hearing about a DOE proposal to use the Hanford Nuclear Reservation as a national radioactive waste storage site.

4. Mike Van Meter reports on the communities of Canyon City and John Day banning together to keep Aryan Nations from settling there.

5. Political observers say John Kitzhaber is the odds-on favorite to win the democratic gubernatorial nomination in May.

6. WA Governor Chris Gregoire is asking state lawmakers to set aside about $4-million for a drought fund.

7. Tom Banse reports on how Northwest atheletes performed in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Center:

1. Interview with Max Watman, author of "Chasing The White Dog - An Amateur Outlaw's Adventure's In Moonshine."

Second Newscast:

1. Doug Nadvornick reports on the last two missionaries expected to be released from custody in Haiti.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

 First Newscast:

1. WA and OR companies added more jobs than they cut in January.

2. State School Superintendent Susan Castillo says OR schools report fewer students this year.

3. University of Idaho officials announced that they're requiring 2600 of the Moscow-based school's employees to take furlough time this spring.

4. Jes Burns reports the USDOE hel the 7th of 8 public hearings about clean-up plans at Hanford in Eugene Monday night.

5. Angela Kellner reports several environmental groups and members of the organic seed industry are taking on Mondanto in Federal distric court this Friday.

6. Chris Lehman reports US Senator Ron Wyden will face some competition this November after all.

7. Eugene City Council President Mike Clark will run for re-election.

Center:

1. Rachael McDonald interviews Naseem Rakha about her new book "The Crying Tree."

Second Newscast:

1. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports OR's unemployment rate was essentially unchanged hin January at 10.7%.

2. An anonymous donor has given Food for Lane County $301,000.

3. Jes Burns reports the US Department of Commerce has awarded OR $8.3 mill in stimulus funds to increase broadband infrastructure in Lane, Douglas, and Klamath counties.

4. The US Forest Service says vehicle access to upper portions of Marys Peak is now open.

5. The Douglas County Sheriff's office say an overdue Roseburg family has been found in the Burnt Mountain area.

6. The earthquake in Chile has brought new attention to a dangerious undersea fault along the Pacific Northwest.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer

 First Newscast:

1. Rachael McDonald reports the Black Butte Mine near Cottage Grove has been added to the federal list of superfund sites.

2. Springfield Mayor Sid Leiken is running for a spot on the Lane County Board of Commissioners.

3. Jes Burns reports EWEB's riverfront masterplan citizen input process is nearing an end.

4. OR could become the third state where psychologists can prescribe drugs, if the governor signs a bill passed by the legislature.

5. Traffic update.

6. A Coos Bay couple became stuck in the cascade range after following their GPS unti's instructions to drive on back roads.

7. The family that owns "Jerry's Rogue Jets" has acquired its only jet boat competitor on the lower Rogue River.

Center:

1. Tripp Sommer interviews Tom Hayden about his new bood "The Long Sixties."

2. VizCity

Second Newscast:

1. A Portland artist has been chosen to paint the official portrait of Governor Ted Kulongoski.

2. Pacific Power wants a 20% increase in electricity rates starting next January.

3. Patricia Murphy reports WA is in the process of changing its methodof execution from a three-drug protocol to a one-drug system. 

First Newscast:

1. Due to the high failure rate last year, Oregon schools will now give state assessment tests to 11th graders rather than 10th graders.

2. Mercy Corps, based in Portland, is partnering with a health organization in Chile to help ease children's trauma caused by the 8.8 earthquake.

3. Angela Kellner reports on a state report that it would cost as much as $1.2-billion to restore streamside vegetation in the Willamette Basin.

4. A federal grand jury has indicted 2 men on charges they sold heroin that resulted in the overdose deaths of 2 Portland men.

5. Jes Burns reports on Lane County's jail using green techniques to save nearly $200,000 a year.

6. Nike subsidiary Cole Haan has agreed to eliminate exotic skins.

Center:

Music in: Willie Nelson "On The Road Again"

1. Interview with Thomas Cobb, author of "Crazy Heart."

2. Natural World.

Second Newscast:

1. The WA state senate has approved a proposed state constitutional amendment giving judges more power to deny bail.

2. Rachael McDonald reports on a new travel center off I-5 in Springfield. 

First Newscast:

1. Doug Nadvornick reports on a poll showing 41% of NW residents want their states to opt of any federal mandate requiring health insurance.

2. Sharece Bunn reports on several Oregon football players appearing in court for an altercation last month.

3. Jessica Blume reports on the two new mammals at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

4. Two men walked 20 miles overnight after becoming lost at the Crystal Mountain Ski Resort near Mt. Ranier National Park.

Center:

Music in: Alice DiMicele "The Way Your Heart Pounds"

1. Interview with Alice DiMicele and David Sullivan.

2. Commentary from John Frohnmayer.

Second Newscast:

1. Rachael McDonald reports on candidates running for the Eugene City Council and EWEB.

2. A Bremerton, WA city council committee voted against allowing residents to raise chickens in the city.

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