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Northwest Passage, June 6-10, 2011
Monday, June 6, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Oregon lawmakers have voted to require that military recruiters be treated the same as other employers on college campuses.
2. A National Weather Service flood watch is in effect in some areas of Eastern Oregon at risk from possibly heavy rain forecast in the region.
3. Lieghti Sharp reports on a group of professors at the University of Oregon volunteering to teach courses to high school students on school furlough days.
4. 60-year-old Carol Lee Weaver of Roseburg was pronounced along I-5 near Cottage Grove Sunday after being found unconcious in her vehicle.
5. Rachael McDonald reports on the friends and family gathering in Cottage Grove for a somber birthday celebration for Josh Fattal, who remains in an Iranian prison with Shane Bauer.
6. Jes Burns reports on the Prefontaine track meet held at the UO.
Music in: Konitz, Mehldaur, Hadon, Motian "Lullaby of Birdland"
Center:
1. Interview with Tim Mueller, Secretary-Treasurer of Kind Tree-Autism Rocks.
Music out: New Tricks "New Dog"
2. Angela Kellner reports from Antiques Roadshow in Eugene, where a $500,000 Norman Rockwell painting was appraised, along with other treasures and heirlooms.
Second Newscast:
1. The Oregon Senate voted to change insurance rules for person-to-person car rentals.
2. The Village School in Eugene has won the nationwide Root For Kids contest to help them learn about healthy eating and gardening.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. The latest round of budget cuts in the Salem-Keizer School District will cost 46 teachers their jobs.
2. The Vatican has asked for more time to produce documents that a federal judge in Oregon has ordered released in a lawsuit by a man who claims he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest in the 1960s.
3. Mark Costigan reports on GED and high school students who have faced legal trouble will graduate from Eugene's Martin Luther King Education Center Wednesday.
4. Tom Banse reports on the unveiling of electric car charging stations outside Portland.
5. Anna King reports on federal nuclear regulators pressuring managers of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to step up design safety at its waste treatment plant.
6. More than 200 children helped christen a new waterpark at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville Monday.
Music in: Deanna Witkowski "Let My Prayer Rise"
Center:
1. Interview with pianist Deanna Witkowski.
Music out: Deanna Witkowski "A Rare Appearance"
2. Jes Burns speaks with PCUN President Ramon Ramirez about the farmworkers union giving their papers to the University of Oregon library to be archived.
Second Newscast:
1. State and local governments could give preference to Oregon businesses even if those contracts are slightly more expensive.
2. Angela Kellner reports on the City of Eugene offering tandem bicycling for the visually impaired.
3. Desmond O'Boyle reports on Newport seeking public comment regarding the current use of herbicides to control invasive vegetation.
4. A teenager from Eastern Oregon has returned from Bolivia after taking part in a study on how the body adapts to high altitudes.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. A judge has found that the woman accued of killing a Eugene police officer is too mentally ill to stand trial.
2. Rachael McDonald reports Pete Seda was back in federal court in Eugene Tuesday asking for a new trial.
3. United Telecom has been banned from doing business in OR.
4. A new computer simulation is helping guide tsunami evacuation planning on the coast.
5. A U of O Professor's documentary about a coffee shop outside joint base Lewis-Mcchord in WA.
6. The OR Department of Environmental Quality is revising two storm water discharge permits to increase pollutant monitoring for more than 750 manufacturers.
Center:
1. Tripp Sommer interviews Michael Vellieux about Cirque du Soleil.
2. VizCity - Oregon made for interiors
Second Newscast:
1. Ass. US Attorney General Thomas Perez announced a federal investigation into the Portland Police.
2. OR lawmakers gave final approval to a measure today that would ban untreated firewood from outside the northwest.
3. The CIty of Eugene is launching "Summer in the City."
4. Oregon State University has received a $600,000 gift to launch a major leterary prize.
5. The number of cows and calves killed by wolves in Idaho is down this spring.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. A legislative committee has approved a compromise plan for new legislative districts.
2. The City of Eugene is hosting a redistricting open house this afternoon.
3. Jes Burns reports on Oregon's timber industry bouncing back in 2010.
4. Daimler Trucks North America says it will hire more than 1,300 hundred employees at plants in Oregon, North Carolina and Mexico.
5. Rescuers on Mt. Hood are working to rescue an injured climber.
6. Mark Costigan reports on a cat recovering from Bubonic Plague in Prineville.
Music in: Michael Benedict "Cheese Cake"
Center:
1. Interview with members of the Eugene Storefront Art Project.
2. Natural World with John Cooney.
Second Newscast:
1. Angela Kellner reports on opponents of the death penalty asking the Oregon Supreme Court to send the case of death row inmate Gary Haugen back to Marion County Circuit Court.
2. The Washington Supreme Court has ruled that employers can fire their workers for legally using medical marijuana even if it is used outside the workplace.
3. Oregon's iconic bottle deposit system will get an overhaul under a bill signed into law today.
4. A sexual harassment and discrimination complaint against former Umatilla County District Attorney Dean Gushwa has been dismissed.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Lieghti Sharp
First Newscast:
1. A man who entered a post office in Portland and stabbed an employee in the hand was tackled by other postal worker and arrested by police.
2. A central OR man told state lawmakers abouthis own struggle with foreclosure.
3. Rachael McDonald reports the U of O's graduation ceremony is Monday morning at Hayward Field in Eugene.
4. Over 100 northwest teens will be spending the next six weeks doing conservation work while getting paid for it.
5. Anna King reports a federal nuclear watchdog agency is questioning some of the science behind a massive treatment plant at Hanford.
6. An explosion and fire destroyed a large commercial building in Albany.
Center:
1. "Sandor" feature
2. Jessica Robinson reports fly fishermen are having a hard time getting a crucial piece of equipment they need to attract fish.
3. Aaron Kunz reports on new technology for tracking wolves.
Second Newscast:
1. The OR Legislature approved a redistricting plan.
2. Austin Jenkins reports WA's first official candidate for Governor in 2012 says he supports a parental consent requirement for abortion.
3. Food for Lane County's Youth Farm stand opens tomorrow.
4. Employees at the Weyerhauser Mill in Springfield are hoping to find the owners of a tropical bird they found near thier office.
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