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Northwest Passage, May 9-13, 2011
Monday, May 9, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. OPB's Rob Manning reports on today's court hearing to finally settle how the federal government should run dams on the Columbia River without killing threatened or endangered salmon.
2. Brandon Smith reports on Newport hosting a public meeting Tuesday to discuss the location of wave energy sites.
3. The State Senate has voted to make it a felony for companies to sell suicide kits to Oregonians.
4. Marion County has hired a lawyer to deal with the insurance company for the unsafe courthouse square building in Salem.
5. Austin Jenkins reports on JP Morgan Chase collecting more than $100,000 a month in ATM fees from welfare recipients in WA state.
Music in: Paul Rena "Gonna Move"
Center:
1. Rachael McDonald speaks with Mary Leighton, Executive Director of Network Charter School about the decisiont to move out of downtown Eugene.
2. Anna King reports on the tangle of pipes and valves underground the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
Music out: Austin Lounge Lizards "Momma Don't Allow"
3. Good Gardening with Renate Tilson.
Second Newscast:
1. OPB's Rob Manning reports on Oregon receiving $1.5-million for improvements to the Eugene train depot area.
2. Mayor Kitty Piercy says the federal rail money will result in more punctual trips for passenger trains and job opportunities.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. Angela Kellner reports on employees in the Springfield School District agreeing to wage concessions and furlough days to help the district dig out of a more than $8-million budget hole.
2. Oregon death row inmate Gary Haugen has written to state officials saying he wants to drop his appeals and be executed.
3. Native American students at Oregon State University will get a new longhouse and cultural center.
4. Tom Banse reports on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service saying it's reached an agreement with one of it's most prolific petitioners over endangered species listings, but one NW group says their not joining the truce.
5. Desmond O'Boyle reports on Eugene real estate developer Arlie & Company emerging from federally mandated chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
6. A Lane Transit District bus on northbound I-5 near Creswell hit the back of a car today injuring the car's driver.
Center:
1. Tripp Sommer speaks with UO Professor Emeritus of Russian Language and Literature James L. Rice about new information and theories on Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Second Newscast:
1. Mark Costigan reports on an experienced skier who died on Mt. Rainier.
2. Lieghti Sharp reports on the City of Eugene holding an earthquake preparedness workshop.
3. Jessica Robinson reports on Hecla Mining reporting double first quarter profits.
4. Another round of double-digit tuition increases appears imminent at Washington universities.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. Angela Kellner reports on the non-combat death in Iraq of 25-year-old Oregon Army National Guard Specialist Andrew Lara of Albany.
2. A judge has found the Umatilla County District Attorney Dean Gushwa guilty of official misconduct and barred him from holding public office for 3 years.
3. 12 members of the Oregon Legislature from Lane County are co-sponsoring the designation of a memorial highway for fallen Eugene Police Officer Chris Kilcullen.
4. Oregon lawmakers are releasing 6 proposed redistricting maps today that may affect the future balance of power in the legislature.
5. Weldon Greig reports on the possible expansion of the Ridgeline Trail around Spencer Butte.
6. Eugene Police Chief Pete Kerns says an off-duty detective was acting within his authority last December when he confronted 5 teenagers who were allegedly trespassing.
7. Lieghti Sharp reports on a workshop bringing together social service agencies and faith-based groups to find better ways to help at-risk youth.
Center:
1. Interview with Native American activist Dennis Banks about his efforts to eradicate diabetes in the American Indian population.
2. Viz City.
Second Newscast:
1. Washington parents who want to send their children to school without vaccinations may find it tougher to do so.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on today's revenue forecast showing Oregon will have an estimated $129-million more in the next budget cycle.
2. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden questioned the heads of the 5 larges oil companines on Capitol Hill today about why the companies need tax breaks at a time of record profits.
3. The Republican-controlled U.S. House has easily passed the last of three bills to expedite and expand oil and gas drilling.
4. Bryan Buckalew reports on WA Governor Chris Gregoire wanting all the states that allow medical marijuana to ask the federal government to reclassify the drug.
Center:
1. Interview with Afgan-American author and teacher Tamin Ansary. He's in Eugene for the "Reading Together" series at Lane Community College.
2. John Cooney's Natural World.
Second Newscast:
1. Rachael McDonald reports on road construction projects in Eugene.
2. Eugene's Village School is currently in 3rd place in Annie's "Root For Kids" contest to fund a school garden or farm-to-school program.
3. The announcer for the OSU athletic events, Mike Parker, is apologizing for a YouTube video showing him so intoxicated at a L.A. restaurant that he eats a napkin.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on Oregon death row inmate Gary Haugen's court hearing asking a judge to allow his appeals to end and his execution to be expedited.
2. The body of a 68-year-old Oregon man was found in his pickup truck on a mountain road in Linn County along with a journal he kept of his ordeal for nearly 70 years.
3. The Oregon State Medical Examiner says drug-related deaths are down, but methamphetamine-related deaths are up.
4. The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a father and son today after their boat capsized off the Oregon Coast.
5. A pair of Republican state lawmakers have launched a new attempt to raise the speed limit to 75 mph on rural interstates in Oregon.
6. Today is the deadline to mail your ballot for the May 17 ballot.
Center:
1. Rachael McDonald speaks with UO Professor Anita Weiss who was in Pakistan when Osam bin Laden was killed.
2. Interview with community organizer Paul Cienfuegos about Monday's town hall meeting "We The People Eugene."
Second Newscast:
1. KUOW's Patricia Murphy reports on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issuing a strongly worded opinion criticizing the Department of Veterans Affairs and their "unchecked incompetence" in handling the surge of veterans dealing with PTSD.
2. Federal authorities would like to find the man who climbed a razor-wire fence in the middle of the night to walk to the middle of the Lookout Point Dam to take pictures.
3. Police say a man caught streaking in a North Boise neighborhood wanted to conquer his fear of being naked in public.
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