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Northwest Passage, June 20-24, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Desmond O'Boyle
First Newscast:
1. The Oregon House has voted down a bill expanding access to online charter schools.
2. Two top deputy prosecutors for Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty have resigned.
3. Angela Kellner reports on the City of Bend preparing to hire a new police chief.
4. 40% of private sector employers are expected to be hiring over the next six months accoridng to a survey by Oregon economists.
5. Anna King reports on a $125-million remodel of Energy Northwest's nuclear power plant near Richland, WA being behind schedule.
6. Bull trout are going to be put back in the Clackamas River after nearly 50 years.
7. Edith Wyden, the mother of Oregon's U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, has died at the age of 91.
Music in: Stringtown Road "Daddy Was A Logger"
Center:
1. Interview with Bob Hart, Executive Director of the Lane County Historical Society and Museum.
Music out: Jeff Hackworth "Love Me Two Times"
2. Renate Tilson's final Good Gardening - a preview of the KLCC Garden Tour.
Second Newscast:
1. Portland is flushing 8-million gallons of city drinking water because a man was caught on camera urinating in one of its reservoirs.
2. Oregon's 14,000 prison inmates cost the state about $100-million in annual health care costs.
3. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has canceled all shows in the Angus Bowmer Theatre this week due to a cracked support beam.
4. A week-long training camp for wildland firefighters is taking place in Sweet Home through Friday.
5. Boeing has announced more than $11-billion in sales at the Paris Air Show.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Desmond O'Boyle
First Newscast:
1. A 3.8 magnitude earthquake this morning was about 230 miles off the Oregon Coast.
2. Lane County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 9.2% in May.
3. A new report says it may be years for Oregon cities to recover enough jobs to get back to pre-recession levels.
4. The public is invited to share their thoughts about the Lane County budget at their Wednesday meeting.
5. Scientists are exploring the deep waters off the southern Oregon coast this week.
6. Anna King reports on the U.S. Dept. of Energy defending its safety culture at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
7. Angela Kellner reports on the opening of the Solar Education Center with 306 solar panels at the Benton County Fairgrounds in Corvallis.
8. Oregon lawmakers have revived a bill to compensate ranchers for livestock killed by wolves.
Music in: Gregg Ellis Vas "Ceremony of Passage"
Center:
1. Austin Jenkins reports on an upcoming deployment of 600 Northwest soldiers to Afghanistan, even as the President plans a troop drawdown in that country.
2. Interview with Matthew Hoh. In 2009, Hoh resigned his position working for the State Dept. in Afghanistan saying the war was unwinnable. Hoh speaks in Eugene next Tuesday.
3. Bryan Buckalew reports on how the Oregon House shared power during the legislative session.
Second Newscast:
1. The Oregon House has voted to take the state schools chief off the ballot.
2. Portland attorney Michael H. Simon has been confirmed as a federal judge.
3. Rachael McDonald reports on blue-green algae advisories.
4. Albany Fire Department Deputy Bob Brooks hopes to join the Guinness Book of World Records for the most fire patches. Brooks has more than 8,300.
5. Anna King reports on how a small Asian fly with spotted wings could again damage west coast fruit crops.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. The Lane County Board of Commissioners has approved a budget for the next fiscal year that is a 10% cut from the previous year.
2. Ranchers who lose livestock to wolves would receive compensation under a measure approved today in the Oregon House.
3. Researchers are studying some urban wetlands in Eugene to help preserve habitat and species.
4. The state has launched a new online service to help Oregonians recover unclaimed money.
5. Tom Banse reports on the Columbia and Snake River barge system slowly getting back to normal after high water flows.
6. A judge has decided to release the mental health evaluation of the suspect in the faatal shooting of Rainier Police Chief Ralph Painter.
Music in: Brendon Phillips & Fast Rattler "Paddy Welcome Back"
Center:
1. Interview with Brendon Phillips & Fast Rattler.
2. Viz City.
Second Newscast:
1. Lieghti Sharp reports on the increase in car thefts in Oregon.
2. A coalitionof high-profile advocates have filed an initiative to legalize marijuana in Washington.
3. A report of a phony doctor at OHSU has led to the arrest of a 21-year-old man.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. The cost of higher education in Oregon will rise under a budget approved by House lawmakers.
2. Governor Kitzhaber signed into law today Oregon's so-called "cool schools" initiative to help schools do energy efficiency upgrades.
3. Tom Banse reports on Governor Gregoire wanting Washington state to lead the way toward figuring out how to store surplus wind power.
4. An Oregon woman accused of strangling her 11-year-old daughter to death has pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder.
5. Jes Burns reports from Hayward Field where the U.S. Track & Field Championships are underway.
Center:
1. Rachael McDonald speaks with filmmaker Marshall Curry. His film "When A Tree Falls," tells the story of Earth Liberation Front.
2. Natural World with John Cooney.
Second Newscast:
1. Austin Jenkins reports on a gap in the screening system that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain a Washington driver's license.
2. A prison inmate who escaped from a work crew near the Oregon State Penitentiary was captured after a traffic stop in the Salem area.
3. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has been given approval for setting up a stage and 600-seat tent in an Ashland city park while the outdoor Bowmer Theatre is repaired.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert & Liehgti Sharp
First Newscast:
1. Police say Dale O'Callaghan shot and wounded his co-worker Jerry Andrews at LHM Hydraulics in Eugene this morning.
2. Bryan Buckalew reports on the stalemate in Salem over the Dept. of Corrections budget.
3. The group "Oregonians For Humane Farms" is filing a ballot measure to give egg-laying hens more room.
4. Former Oregon attorney general Dave Frohnmayer has asked the governor to order a criminal investigation into the loss of emails by a former deputy to the current attorney general.
5. An Oregon couple has been sentended to 90 days in jail in faith-healing case after failing to seek medical care for their infant daughter.
6. Jes Burns reports on the opening day of competion in the US track and field championships.
Center:
1. Intervie with bluegrass legend Dick Kimmell.
Second Newscast:
1. About 100 people picketed the Bonneville Power Administration office in Vancouver, protesting plans for a high-voltage line through populated areas of Clarck and Cowlitz Counties.
2. Military recruiters say the slow pace of the economic recovery in Southern Oregon is driving more enlistments in the Klamath Falls area.
3. Angela Kellner reports on Animal Planet filming the TV show "Finding Bigfoot" near Leaburg this Sunday.
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