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Northwest Passage, Dec 20-24, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is recovering from prostate cancer surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
2. The Western Snowy Plover will be getting more places to nest in the northwest in the next few years.
3. Amtrak says service between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., is resuming after a mudslide closed the track.
4. The Coast Guard says 2 men rescued from a sinking yacht off the NW tip of Washington did not require any medical attention.
5. Tom Banse reports on how the 2010 census population numbers could mean a reallocation of congressional seats.
6. Anna King reports on the DOE asking Vanderbilt University to take down an online article about an island on the Columbia River.
7. Rachael McDonald reports on homeless preschoolers at First Place Familty Center in Eugene being treated to warm clothes and holiday carols.
Center:
1. Austin Jenkins reports on reaction from soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord about the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay service members "Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
2. KUOW's John Ryan reports on the global climate impact of fresh versus frozen food.
Music out: The Mother Truckers "I'm Comin' Over"
3. Tom Banse reports on a forest-to-table grower near Enumclaw, Washington.
Music out: Marley's Ghost "Sail Away Ladies"
Second Newscast:
1. Angela Kellner reports on Lane County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November increasing slightly to 11.4%.
2. A plywood mill closed since last year has reopened in Rogue River, after being purchased and upraged by Murphy Timber Company of Eugene.
3. The initial work on a biomass plant in Lakeview is nearing completion, and full-scale construction is expected in the spring.
4. Brandon Smith reports on the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office wanting to change the way it responds to residential security alarms.
5. The Linn County Sheriff's Office is investigating a police shooting in Lebanon that wounded a 17-year-old who allegedly stabbed two Lebanon police officers.
6. A 70-year-old Bellevue, WA man has been sentenced to a year in prison, 6 months of home detention and restitution for allegedly lying about the orgins of imported honey he sold.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Oregon's population climbed 12% to over 3.8-million in the 2010 census.
2. Eugene City Councilor Betty Taylor will chair a National League of Cities Committee.
3. Rachael McDonald reports on growing opposition to Lane Transit Distict's plans to expand EM-X service to West Eugene.
4. King County executive Dow Constantine has called for a review of Metro Bus Transit advertising after the agency received hundreds of complaints over an ad protesting Israeli actions in Gaza.
5. A bicyclist who collided with a vehicle more than 2 months ago has died.
6. Nike says strong sales, tight inventory control and improved margins helped drive its 2nd quarter net income up 22%.
7. A fire at the site of a historic cannery on Astoria's waterfront looked suspicious at first, but may have been accidental.
8. Chris Lehman reports on Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski's final days in office.
Music in: Dave Rogers "Songs of the New West"
Center:
1. Interview with musician Dave Rogers.
Music out: Dave Rogers "Big Green Escalator #2"
2. Austin Jenkins reports tells the story of Specialist Dustin Knapp as part of the year-long series following the 5th Stryker Brigade as it transitions home from war.
Second Newscast:
1. The fate of Joshua Turnidge, who along with his father Bruce was convicted of killing two Oregon police officers in a Woodburn bank bombing, is in the hands of a Marion County jury.
2. Angela Kellner reports on Oregon law enforcement agencies using overtime grant funding to beef up patrols over the next two holiday weekends.
3. Womenspace is holding a community candlelight vigil to honor those who've lost their lives to domestic violence.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. A jury has recommended the death penalty for Bruce & Joshua Turnidge for planting a bomb at a Woodburn bank in 2008 that killed two Oregon law enforcement officials.
2. Per capita income dropped in every major Oregon statistical area counted by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
3. Captain Doug Hooley with Lane County Adult Corrections is one of only three people in Oregon to have earned the national designation of Certified Jail Manager.
4. A Lane County jury convicted Tyler Clayton Davis of 2nd degree manslaughter for a drunken driving crash that killed two of his friends.
5. Rachael McDonald reports on a survey by the Oregon Youth Authority showing more of the young people in the state's justice system have low IQs, mental health conditions or dependence on drugs or alcohol.
6. King County Sheriff's detectives have found more bones in a ravine where a skull was found Tuesday.
7. A man wielding a shotgun was arrested after he allegedly rushed into his girlfriend's dog-grooming business in Sweet Home and fired two shots.
8. A jury has acquitted a man accused of slugging the 78-year-old mayor of Hope, Idaho in a July dispute outside city hall.
9. The University of Oregon wants duck fans to show solidarity by wearing yellow on the day of the National Championship game - January 10th.
Music in: Larry Murante "Katie's House"
Center:
1. OPB's Rob Manning reports on the charter school in the Elkton School District.
Music out: Orville Johnson "Old Riverman"
2. Viz City with Cissy & Terry.
Second Newscast:
1. OPB's April Baer reports on the death penalty decision handed down my a Marion County jury in the Woodburn bank bombing trial of Bruce & Joshua Turnidge.
2. A federal inspection report is faulting Sally Jackson Cheese of Oroville, Washington for unsanitary conditions.
3. Tom Banse reports on an Idaho county that was interested in hosting a commercial nuclear power plant putting those plans on hold.
4. The BNSF Railway wants to end an agreement paying about $100,000 a year to help protect the water supply under its refueling depot in Hauser, Idaho.
5. A Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue crew pulled a woman and her dog from the muddy bank of the Willamette River at Wilsonville.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Marion County estimates damage from the December 14th tornado that hit Aumsville at $1.1-million.
2. Astoria city organizations are seeking temporary housing for several businesses that were damaged in fires last week.
3. Angela Kellner reports on HUD giving money to Oregon, Washington & Idaho for housing counseling centers.
4. The last scheduled legal briefs have been filed in the long-running battle over making the Columbia Basin's federal hydroelectric dams safer for endangered salmon.
5. Rachael McDonald reports on new rules in the new year for national forests, including 13 in Oregon.
6. When Bruce & Joshua Turnidge are formally sentenced to death next month, they will join 34 other men on Oregon's death row.
7. Remains found in an Auburn, WA ravine this week are those of a likely Green River serial killer victim.
8. A La Pine man's discovery of a crate of wrapped gifts on a highway shoulder has spurred more questions than answers.
Music in: Blackie & The Rodeo Kings "Life Is Golden"
Center:
1. Anna King reports on the struggle of day laborers in Seattle's Rainer Valley. [unemployment]
2. Natural World with John Cooney.
Music out: Solomon Burke "Thank You"
3. San Antonio Christmas song by Bo Reynolds and the band Little Fish of Bend.
Second Newscast:
1. Sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a teenage snow boarder at Mount Hood Meadows.
2. An engineering firm estimates it will cost nearly $4-million to do basic renovations on the old Egyptian Theatre in Coos Bay.
3. Anna King reports on robust wine sales in the northwest.
Friday, December 24, 2010
All Things Considered from 4:00-6:30pm.
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