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Northwest Passage, July 11-15, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Hosted by: Angela Kellner & Desmond O'Boyle
First Newscast:
1. A judge has ordered a mental competency hearing for death row inmate Gary Haugen.
2. Gov. John Kitzhaber plans to name his predecessor, Ted Kulongoski, to a commission reviewing Oregon's criminal sentencing laws.
3. A program to provide low or no-cost health insurance for Oregon children has doubled enrollment over the past two years.
4. Austin Jenkins reports on backers of a WA measure to privatize liquor sales say they have submitted enough signatures to qualify for the ballot.
5. Anna King reports on the number 2 manager at the U.S. Department of Energy at Hanford today.
6. Tom Banse reports on the official definition for what we consider normal weather is changing.
7. The Meyer Memorial Trust is giving Lane County non-profits more than $300,000 in grants.
Center:
1. Austin Jenkins brings us the final installment of his year-long coverage of the WA based 5th Stryker Brigade.
2. Anna King reports on a widow who's husband worked at the Hanford tank farm and died of a rare brain disease.
3. Tom Banse reports on how climate change could push native fish further north.
Second Newscast:
1. Rachael McDonald reports on Newport planners hoping to make ocean research an economic driver for their city.
2. Brandon Smith reports on the process to determine which forest restoration projects will receive federal funding.
3. Lewis & Clark College Professor Elliot Young will speak in Springfield Tuesday about globalization and migration.
4. A southern Oregon tribe has opened a freeway rest area just off I-5.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Desmond O'Boyle
First Newscast:
1. Oregon fisheries managers say the large snowpack this spring in Eastern Oregon has made for high water and tough fishing on the Wallowa and Imnaha Rivers.
2. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is drafting a new policy to find more environmentally-friendly ways to clean up hazardous spills.
3. Rachael McDonald reports on the state investigation into Triangle Lake residents who've tested positive for herbicides sprayed on nearby forest land.
4. One Oregon lawmaker is proposing a law that would require parents, guardians or caretakers to report a child's death or disappearance within 24 hours.
5. Scott Ki reports on megaload opponents requesting that a hearing officer's decision that recommends 200 oversized shipments on an Idaho highway to be reconsidered.
6. A man struck by a train Monday in Portland is expected to survive, but he lost part of his left leg.
Music in: Nick Curran "Good Luck"
Center:
1. KUOW's Liz Jones reports on two more counties in WA set to activate a controversial immigration program.
2. Anna King reports on the Department of Energy planning a new investigation into safety at Hanford's waste treatment plant.
3. Deena Prichep reports on a new breed of food carts in the NW.
Music out: The Beta Band "She's The One"
4. Ashley Ahearn reports on scientists trying to study the feces of orca whales of Puget Sound to find out why their endangered.
Second Newscast:
1. A soldier based in western WA has received the Medal of Honor.
2. Adam Cotterell reports on an Idaho court reconsidering part of the case of convicted killer Joseph Edward Duncan III.
3. Rangers at Crater Lake National Park spent 6 hours rescuing a NY man who slid 300 feet into the remains of a volcano.
4. The Oregon Health Authority and Morrow County Health Dept. say toxic blue-green algae has made the water unsafe at Willow Creek Reservoir.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Mark Costigan
First Newscast:
1. Oregon death row inmate Gary Haugen says he plans to ask the judge in his case to give him a new lawyer.
2. An Oregon man and his son who pleaded guilty to poaching will spend the next four deer seasons in jail.
3. Rachael McDonald reports on scientists dying the ocean green off Yaquina Head near Newport to better understand the movement of near-shore water.
4. Amelia Templeton reports on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service agreeing to resolve the status of hundreds of potential endangered species by 2018.
5. A group following the 200-year-old path of pioneering surveyor David Thompson is scheduled to complete an 1,100 mile paddle down the Columbia River on Friday.
6. The Yamhill County District Attorney says a Newberg-Dundee officer was justified in shooting a man coming at him with a knife.
Music in: Third Coast Jazz "Sleeze (If You Please)"
Center:
1. KUOW's Ruby De Luna reports on the Centers for Disease Control taking public comment in Seattle on whether to recommend a meningitis vaccine for infants.
2. Deena Prichep reports on what it's really like to work in a food cart.
Music out: Viktor Krauss "Sunday Afternoon Man"
3. Anna King reports on Quincy, WA becoming a regional center for online companies.
Second Newscast:
1. The Oregon Government Ethics Commission voted today to reprimand 3 investment officers at the Oregon State Treasury.
2. The Lane County Board of Commissioners doesn't expect to have enough money to restore cuts to the sheriff's office.
3. Tom Banse reports on the National Park Service giving its support to turn part of the Hanford Nuclear site into a new national park.
4. Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them and call them names. Nike is the brand's owner.
5. A federal judge has dismissed some of the claims in a lawsuit brought by a Medford school bus driver fired for refusing to take a Confederate battle flag off his pickup truck while parked on school property. [civil rights/discrimination]
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert & Mark Costigan
First Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on death row inmate Gary Haugen being allowed to have a new attorney.
2. Rachael McDonald reports on a government informant now being sent to prison on drug charges.
3. Three Fred Meyer employees are suing the compnay, saying it did nothing to protect them from sexual harassment by a customer who grobed them at the Oak Grove store.
4. The superintendent of Bethel schools will take a pay cut to help in tough budget times.
5. Jes Burns reports on a fresh food truck to bring local, organic produce available in Springfield's working class neighborhoods.
6. Sharing alcohol with minors could be more costly in Lane County.
Center:
1. Deena Prichep reports on food cart regulations.
2. Natural World.
3. Austin Jenkins reports on JPMorgan Chase charging Washington state $700,000 a month to issue food and cash welfare benefits via debit card.
Second Newscast:
1. The value of Oregon's agricultural products increased 7% last year to $4.4-billion, but that's still down a half-billion dollars from the peak of 2007/2008.
2. A study of the Oregon wine industry finds its economic impact has nearly doubled since 2005 and now stands at $2.7-billion.
3. The federal government has approved road and power line right of way through about 4 miles of government land for a Central Oregon development that could add up to 52 turbines to the state's wind-energy boom.
4. A Portland environmental group recently funded an economist at Tufts University to dissect the cost of carbon pollution.
5. Actor Daniel Baldwin has been granted a restraining order against his wife in Lake Oswego.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. Jes Burns reports on the meeting with state and federal officials with residents of the Triangle Lake area about pesticide exposure from aerial sprays on timber clear cuts.
2. Deschutes County health officials say the drinking water at a Central Oregon resort, Elk Lake, has been contaminated with E. Coli bacteria.
3. Testing on Trimet buses and trains found high concentrations of bacteria on cloth seats, but not so much on vinyl seats.
4. Portland police searching for the body of a slain 14-year-old girl say they have found unidentified remains.
5. The Great Bee Count is taking place across the country Saturday.
Center:
1. Interview with artists Jud Turner & Margaret Garrington about their "Purpose-Repurpose" shows.
2. Brandon Smith speaks with Eugene Police Chief Pete Kerns about how data-led policing can help deploy resources to the neighborhoods most affected by crime.
Second Newscast:
1. Plastic shopping bags could be banned a Portland's larger grocery stores and other retailers as soon as Oct. 15.
2. A new facility at the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory would test the effects of radiation on the materials that could be used to build future nuclear reactors.
3. Jessica Robinson reports on Imperial Oil trying a different Idaho route to ship pieces of an oil refinery to Canada.
4. Crews have contained a 50-acre wildfire burning along I-90 in Central Washington.
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