Monday, June 21, 2010
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert

First Newscast:

1. OPB's David Nogueras reports on the U.S. Supreme Court lifting a nationwide ban on the planting of genetically modified alfalfa.

2. The federal government says it's ready to meet the challenge when it comes to fighting fires on public lands this summer.

3. Two Oregon ranchers have been indicted on charges they set fires since the early 1980s that caused damage to more than 45,000 acres of public rangeland.

4. Brandon Smith reports on how Coos County sold timber and added $2.5-million to its general fund.

5. An Oregon Air National Guard Senior Master Sergeant has been charged with stealing 3 motorcycles from the military and selling them on Craigslist.

6. Laura McCandlish reports on the Corvallis Community Theatre changing hands.

Center:

1. Tom Banse reports on how people in the Northwest generally feel about immigration.

2. Anna King reports on people in southeast Oregon who make a killing off killing ground squirrels or "sage rats."

3. Angela Kellner speaks with Gus Gates, Oregon Policy Coordinator with the Surfrider Foundation about the Hands Across The Sand event to end offshore oil drilling and increase the use of clean energy.

Second Newscast:

1. More than 50 former smokejumpers from across the nation have gathered to help turn the former Siskiyou smokejumper base into a museum.

First Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on a new opinion poll showing Northwest residents split on the issue of using oil as an energy source.

2. Police have identified a 17-year-old Portland boy shot in the back as Billy Moore.

3. A new poll shows the Oregon race for governor in a dead heat.

4. Official say IBM will hire 600 new employees in Beaverton.

5. Tom Banse reports on hydroelectric dam operators overwhelmed by the May/June rains.

6. A year after a solar farm near the Medford Airport was proposed, the project is facing energy program deadlines, with no significant progress.

Center:

1. Doug Nadvornick reports on how Northwest residents feel about the perception that illegal immigrants are taking away American jobs.

2. Heidi Lang reports on a Eugene doctor who practices alternative care.

3. Tom Banse reports on how self-incriminating internet postings are helping cops fight crime on public lands.

Second Newscast:

1. John Vlahovich reports on HUD officials visiting Spokane to hear what kinds of problems gays and lesbians face when seeking housing.

2. A Portland man has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison for sex trafficking an underage girl.

3. WA Governor Chris Gregoire has signed an executive order directing state agencies to work with several groups to improve access to healthier foods. 

First Newscast:

1. A Portland doctor wants to open a house in the Sellwood neighborhood where the terminally ill can kill themselves under Oregon's death with dignity law.

2. A man who had been a fugitive for 9 years in the Portland area and tried to change his identity has been arrested.

3. Jes Burns reports on the City of Eugene moving closer to finalizing next year's budget.

4. The Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that Jackson County Sheriff Mike Winters must release the names of concealed handgun permit holders requested by the Mail Tribune Newspaper.

5. National HIV Testing Day is June 27.

Center:

1. Chris Lehman reports on a public opinion poll about how much Northwest residents are willing to pay for alternative energy.

2. Laura McCandlish reports on Corvallis becoming the first community in Oregon to have curbside composting.

3. Viz City's Terry Way speaks with Ken O'Connell.

Second Newscast:

1. Law officials say former Vice President Al Gore was accused of unwanted sexual contact during a visit to Portland in October 2006.

2. The Xerces Society of Invertebrate Conservation of Portland filed a petition to get Franklin's Bumblebee on the endangered species list.

3. Rachael McDonald reports on the Oregon Caves and Devils Staircase moving closer to receiving permanently protected as wilderness.

4. Two horses had to be put down last weekend after racing at the Grants Pass Downs racetrack.

5. An Oregon-based Coast Guard crew is heading to the Gulf of Mexico to assist in the response of the BP oil spill.

6. The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is expanding a program to Oregon to help provide arts education for elementary and middle school students.

First Newscast:

1. The Eugene Police Department is moving out of downtown to a building on Country Club Road.

2. Tom Banse reports on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that signing a petition is a public act.

3. A $150-million Oregon jury award in 2002 against Phillip Morris tobacco company is going back to a trial court for reconsideration.

4. Doug Nadvornick reports on federal Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack saying wood from Northwest forests floors could help wean the U.S. from foreign oil. [energy]

5. Plans for a wind farm on the Washington coast in Pacific County may depend on a special radar that tracks birds.

Center:

1. Tom Banse reports on how ductless heat pumps can save homeowners money.

2. Austin Jenkins reports on whether its a good idea to invest in making schools more energy efficient.

3. Natural World with John Cooney.

Second Newscast:

1. A soldier from Gold Beach was grazed in the arm by a bullet during a training accident at Ft. Bragg.

2. A young climber was injured today in a fall at Rocky Butte.

3. Chris Lehman previews the recommendations Governor Kulongoski will make to restructure state government.

4. The Union Pacific Railroad has agreed to donate a 22-mile segment of a rail line to the International Port of Coos Bay.

5. The gravel in the Rogue River held back for decades by the Savage Rapids Dam are drawing recreational gold miners.

6. A Spokane couple has reached its goal of collecting enough recyclable aluminum cans to pay for their wedding.

Friday, June 25, 2010
Hosted by: Brandon Smith 

First Newscast:

1. Gov. Kulongoski pitted spending on corrections against dollars for education in a speech.

2. Oregon Medical Board has suspended the license of a Portland psychiatrist who plans a "death with dignity house."

3. Washington Senator Maria Cantwell is still fighting to stop the NOAA Pacific Fleet from moving to Newport, OR. Krisitan Foden-Vencil reports.

4.  State Representative Phil Barnhart will hold a town hall in Eugene to discuss the connection between education and the economy.

5. Bonneville Power Administration is ramping up spending on seismic strengthening of its power grid. Tom Banse reports.

6. Eugene Firefighters put out a fire on a small plane used by the LCC Flight School.

Center:

1. Interview with the Latin guitar/world fusion band "Incendio."

2. Commentator John Frohnmayer wants governments to budgets like adults do.

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