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Northwest Passage, Feb 7-11, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Rachael McDonald reports on the community grieving the loss of two South Eugene High School seniors.
2. Conservation groups say they'll sue the federal government if they don't do more to protect the giant sea turtles along the Pacific coastline.
3. Weyerhaeuser has sold 82,000 acres of timberland in SW WA to Boston-based Hancock Timber Resource Group.
4. The cost of extradition means that petty criminals who flee from Oregon are unlikely to face prosecution unless they return to the state.
5. Oregon health officials are reminding parents that schools and child care centers must have proof of immunization by February 16 or the child will be sent home.
6. Envision Eugene released its draft proposal last week about how the city can grow without compromising livability.
7. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says initial lead testing at the Ashland Gun Club was flawed and has recommended additional testing.
Music in: Q.E.D. "Put The Ball In The Box"
Center:
1. Interview with David Oakes, about Mind Freedom International's 25th anniversary. The group, based in Eugene, advocates for the rights and alternatives in mental health.
Music out: Sting "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free"
2. Austin Jenkins reports on Idaho's "no frills" budget as compared with Oregon and Washington's.
Second Newscast:
1. Angela Kellner reports on Lane Transit District hosting a joint open house and public hearing on plans to extend EmX service to west Eugene.
2. Beginning today and running for 2 weeks, the Eugene Police are participating in a statewide traffic enforcement program.
3. A highly endangered whale that spends summers off Russia has moved into waters off the Oregon coast.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on a bill to abolish the Oregon Department of Energy.
2. States including Oregon and Washington are asking for help obtaining a scarce execution drug.
3. The Umatilla Chemical Depot has reached the halfway point on destroying mustard agent.
4. The occupations of cancer patients would go into a registry under a bill heard by a committee in the WA Senate Monday.
5. Nearly 3 years after he was first nominated, Washington County Circuit Court Judge Marco Hernandez was confirmed by the U.S. Senate Monday as Oregon's newest federal judge.
6. Law enforcement officials wiped away tears as they watched the flag draped casket carrying the body of Washington correctional officer Jayme Biendl.
7. Tonight is the second public forum on proposed school closures at Springfield School District.
8. Longtime Lake Oswego School District Superintendent William Korach announced he'll be retiring next month after 24 years on the job.
9. Students from across Oregon will march at the capitol in Salem Wednesday to keep comprehensive health services in their schools.
10. Starting in September, students in Kelso, WA may have their cell phones searched for sexually explicit messages or pictures.
Music in: Sam Bush "The Dolphin Dance"
Center:
1. OPB's Rob Manning reports on how budget deficits are leading to difficult decisions to close schools.
Music out: Floyd Dixon "Let's Groove"
2. Guy Hand has pointers on pairing beer and food.
Second Newscast:
1. Angela Kellner reports on new state numbers showing a slight dip in public school enrollment for 2010-11.
2. Marine scientists from OSU will try this week to intercept a hightly endangered Russian gray whale.
3. Abused or neglected farm animals will be taken care of at The Lighthouse Farm Sanctuary near Scio.
4. McMinnville Police have charged a Vancouver, WA woman with pointing a gun at an Oregon man who was walking his dog.
5. Southern Oregon farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin say drought has cost them millions of dollars over the past couple of years.
6. Anna King reports on northwest asparagus farmers who may receive compensation for losses blamed on competition from South American countries.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. A suspicious duffle bag in Salem that got the attention of the Oregon State Police and bomb squad turned out to be full of clothing and nothing dangerous.
2. Daniel Butts, who is accused of shooting and killing Rainier Police Chief Ralph Painter, has asked for a mental health examination and to suspend all proceedings in his murder trial.
3. Austin Jenkins reports on Washington's pension system being underfunded by about $7-billion.
4. Jes Burns reports on a packed joint government hearing about the proposed West Eugene EmX Rapid Transit Bus line extension. [transportation]
5. The Springfield City Council has appointed Joe Pishioneri to be council president through 2012.
6. The City of Springfield wants to project their transportation needs over the next 20 years.
7. Portland Mayor Sam Adams and the head of the city's Urban Renewal Agency flew to Spain this week to ask executives of the Iberdrola Renewables Company to keep North American headquarters in Portland after building leases expire in 2 years.
Music in: Bill Staines "The Boats They Come and The Boats They Go"
Center:
1. Interview with Carl L. Johannessen, co-author of "World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492."
Music out: Mark Thornton "Straight & Strut"
Second Newscast:
1. KUOW's Patricia Murphy reports on the memorial service for slain Washington correctional officer Jayme Biendl.
2. The annual death toll on Oregon highways declined in 2010.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Rachael McDonald reports on the sentencing trial for Angela McAnulty. The Eugene mother is accused of torturing and causing the death of ther 15-year-old daughter in 2009.
2. A fetus born to a Lane County Jail inmate was found dead Wednesday night during a routine security check.
3. Under Governor Kitzhaber's proposed budget, Lane Community College faces a $3.5-million deficit next year.
4. Relatives of a patient who died at Oregon State Hospital have filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court.
5. Governor Kitzhaber has asked President Obama to declare a federal disaster in 6 Oregon counties to help them recover from winter storm damage last month.
6. The new owners of the Warrenton lumber mill say more than half the 140 jobs lost to closure will be restored when the mill reopens in June.
7. Austin Jenkins reports on immigrant rights groups pushing back against efforts to deny driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in WA state.
Music in: Paul Pena w/Jerry Garcia "Venutian Lady"
Center:
1. Interview with Megan Flynn, Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of Beer West Magazine.
Music out: Floyd Dixon "Hey Bartender"
2. Natural World with John Cooney: Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary in Belize.
Second Newscast:
1. After a lengthy jury selection process, testimony got underway today in the Angela McAnulty sentencing trial.
2. Eugene's former Deputy Police Auditor, Dawn Reynolds, is suing the City of Eugene claiming she was fired for reporting misconduct.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
1. Authorities in southern Oregon say a tsunami unleased by the Japanese earthquake sank boats in Brookings Harbor.
2. Life is now back to normal along the Oregon Coast.
3. Rachael McDonald reports on the effects of the tsunami on Florence.
4. The massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan today was the strongest quake in the area in nearly 1200 years.
5. Experts say that even though the coast came away largely unscathed, coastal residents should not become complacent.
6. Seismologists say it's only a matter of time before the Northwest sees an earthquake on the magnitude as the one in Japan.
Center:
1. Interivew with Cal Scott and Kevin Burke.
Second Newscast:
1. The OR coast is no longer under a tsunami warning.
2. Today's tsunami alert provided a real-life test of the preparedness and planning for just such an even along the West Coast.
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