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Northwest Passage, Aug 1-5, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer and Desmond O'Boyle
First Newscast:
1. Former UO quarterback Joey Harrington was hit by a vehicles and seriously injured while riding a bicycle in Portland.
2. Beginning today Oregon Children may once again sign up for state-sponsored health insurance at any point in the year.
3. The Salem fire department has determined that a pasty material found at US Rep Kurt Schrader's office is not dangerous.
4. Austin Jenkins reports on the ways WA and OR distributes unemployment benefits.
5. A US Forest Service decision to apporove expansion of the Mt. Ashland ski area has been appealed.
6. Tom Banse reports on efforts to save the Lark.
7. A stolen trumpet has been found and returned to a jazz musician in PDX.
Center:
1. Interview with Laurie Notaro about her new book "It Looked Different on the Model."
2. Jessica Robinson reports on new federal nutrition guidelines for potatoes.
Second Newcast:
1. Ashley Ahearn reports on the controvery over a classified report about the risk of oil spills off WA.
2. The Eugene Celebration Parade will not go through downtown this year.
3. Pearl Street traffic closure.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Desmond O'Boyle
First Newscast:
1. A federal judge in Oregon says the Obama Administration's attempt to make federal hydroelectric dams in the NW safter for protected salmon violates the Endangered Species Act.
2. A woman has been found in the Umpqua National Forest east of Roseburg after she was reported missing last weekend.
3. The National Guard says it will allow an Oregon recruit the $20,000 bonus it promised her in 2007.
4. An Oregon couple reported missing by their worried family have turned up.
5. Eugene Police are reminding the public to not leave pets or children in the car when temps rise.
6. Rachael McDonald reports on how Oregon's senators voted on the measure to raise the debt ceiling.
7. Half of Oregon's 1,200 public schools fall short of performance targets required under NCLB.
Music in: Takehaur Kunimoto & The Last Frontier "Appalachian Shamisen"
Center:
1. Interview with Satoko Moto-Ooji about organizing a fundraiser for Japan.
Music in: Roger McGuinn "Jolly Roger"
2. Dorothy Velasco reviews the Ashland Production of The Pirates of Penzance.
Second Newscast:
1. Ashley Ahearn reports on wolf recovery in WA.
2. A Portland woman has been rescued from Mt. Hood.
3. An Indian tribe in WA has adopted a law recognizing gay marriage.
4. Jes Burns reports on National Night Out.
5. Anna King reports on layoffs at Hanford.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio has returned from Washington DC and is not happy with the way the debt deal went down.
2. Rob Cornilles says he will run in a special election to replace David Wu.
3. 450 workers will be laid off from their jobs at Monaco Coach in Coburg.
4. Aaron Kunz reports on Oregon's newly established wolf compensation fund.
5. Will Robbins reports on Columbia River treaty fishing tribes urging OR & WA to apply for new permits to remove sea lions on the Columbia River.
Music in: Jupiter Hollow "Jump Into The Groove"
Center:
1. Interview with organizers of the Whiteaker Block Party.
Music out: Girin Guha Experience
2. Viz City.
Second Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports that Oregon's natural gas prices are not expected to rise this winter.
2. Tom Banse reports on the latest in the D.B. Cooper mystery.
3. An Oregon judge has scheduled a hearing next month to decide whether death-row inmate Gary Haugen is competent to waive his appeals and be executed.
4. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Bowmer Theatre has reopened after 6 weeks of structural repairs.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Hosted by: Tiffany Eckert
First Newscast:
1. Chris Lehman reports on the special election process to replace Congressman David Wu.
2. State Sen. Suzanne Bonamici is running to replace Wu.
3. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber won't veto any more bills from the 2011 legislative session.
4. Rachael McDonald reports on the bad news that timber counties, including Lane, will receive less federal revenue than expected.
5. A Corvallis shelter for homeless women that operates during the winter needs a new location.
6. Census figures show the number of same-sex households in OR increased nearly 68% from 2000 to 2010.
7. A 12-year-old girl hit by a car on Hwy. 211 while checking the mailbox has died at OHSU.
Center:
1. Tom Banse reports on an archeological dig on an island in B.C. that shows a transformation from nomadic life to a settled village.
2. Aaron Kunz reports on a controversial method of extracting natural gas, hydraulic fracturing or fracking.
3. Natural World.
Second Newscast:
1. Administrators at Eugene's 4j School Dist. have agreed to forgo cost-of-living pay raises and take 6 furlough days next year.
2. A Medford teenager who went missing on Mt. McLoughlin has been found safe.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer
First Newscast:
1. An Medford man who allegedly killed his family has been arraigned.
2. The Oakridge City Council voted to borrow a half million dollars to pay city bills.
3. A Central OR wildfire was about 50% containted last night, but three new fires are stretching responders thin.
4. Patricia Murphy reports on veteran suicides.
5. Tom Banse reports on WA wolf compensations.
Central:
1. Interivew with Baily Ellis-Wiard and Tanner Paul about the play, "Shannon: Based on a maybe true story."
Second Newscast:
1. Tom Banse updates the DB Cooper case.
2. Jes Burns reports on new OR carbon capture maps.
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