Monday, April 30, 2007
Hosted by: Tripp Sommer & Andrew Bartholomew

First Newscast:

1. Governor Kulongoski releases the 2007 Oregon Progress Report.

2. Oregon's House today unanimously passed a bill aimed at curbing child abuse.

3. Chris Lehman reports on arts advocates rallying at the state capitol today for their share of funding.

4. Ann Dornfeld reports on the 37 people covered by OSHA who died on the job last year.

5. Law enforcement officers are preparing for a two-week training course on patrolling Oregon oceans and rivers.

6. The sentencing of boat captain Richard Oba will likely be delayed.

7. Results from the Eugene marathon.

Center:

1. Master Gardener Renate Tilson offers ideas for a less than perfect, but healthier lawn on Good Gardening.

2. Mixed Voices take their poetry into "hiding."

3. Chris Lehman reports from Pendleton on the last of the state's larger institutions that serves adults with severe developmental disabilities.

Second Newscast:

1. Mike Van Meter reports on the 12 candidates vying for the four open seats on the Bend-La Pine School Board.

2. Austin Jenkins reports on a plan to allow up to 1,000 recreational cabins near the base of Mount Saint Helens.

3. Claude Offenbacher reports on a 13-acre waterfront Salem site that may be headed for lucrative development.

4. 21-year-old Steven Bouknight of Medford died this weekend after falling during a hike at Table Rocks.

First Newscast:

1. More than a thousand people rallied at the state capitol building today for immigrant rights.

2. Gas prices continue to rise.

3. The Eugene-Springfield area was ranked by the American Lung Association as fifth in the country for short-term pollution.

4. Chris Lehman reports on the death of the field burning ban bill in the Oregon Legislature.

5. 26-year-old Bradley Farnand has been arrested in connection with a fire at his parents' $800,000 home in Bend.

Center:

1. Interview with paleoanthropologist Dr. Louise Leakey.

2. Interview with dancer/choreographer Alito Alessi, set designer/costumer Celeste Peterson and dancer Karen Daley about "Pillars of Illusion."

Second Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on members of the Oregon Senate supporting the Iraq war-funding bill that sets a timeline for troop withdrawal.

First Newscast:

1. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden says he has a bi-partisan plan to provide health insurance to all Americans.

2. Governor Kulongoski has ordered flags at public institutions be flown at half-staff Friday in memory of 20-year-old Lance Corporal Dale Peterson of Redmond.

3. Frank Nearing reports on the local chapter president of the NAACP requesting that the housing authority - HACSA - evaluate its diversity program.

4. A man in his 50s in rural Multnomah County is recovering from Oregon's 9th reported case of Hantavirus.

5. The Oregon Senate is considering a measure that would allow the state attorney general to target telemarketers who make cold calls to homes, offices and cell phones.

6. Royal Caribbean International suffered a 92% decline in profits in the first quarter of 2007 - it employs 345 people in Springfield.

Center:

1. Interview with Dan O'Brien, author of "Buffalo For The Broken Heart."

2. Financial planning commentator Charlene Carter has some pointers on how to ride the roller coaster of a volatile stock market.

Second Newscast:

1. Douglas County Commissioner Doug Robertson has asked for the resignation of Planning Commission Director David Jaques.

2. Lane Community College faculty members voted yesterday to forgo part of their next pay raise in order to forestall all 15 instructor layoffs.

3. Chris Lehman reports on the legislature giving final approval to a domestic partnership bill for gays and lesbians.

4. About 60 Portland-area navy reserve sailors have shipped out for duty handling cargo in Kuwait for the Iraq war.

First Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on higher education advocates asking the legislature to increase funding.

2. Frank Nearing reports on Lane Community College's Budget Committee working on ways to offset a projected multi-million dollar deficit.

3. Negotiations over tax increases are leaving many worried about the potential to fund children's health insurance and education.

4. Two teenagers were arrested at Molalla High School in an ongoing investigation into alleged sexual misconduct involving a teammate on the boy's basketball team.

5. In the past ten days, six students at Lincoln City's Taft High School have been killed, hospitalized or jailed.

6. More than 850 soldiers are scheduled to return to Oregon from a 16-month deployment to Afghanistan.

7. The Bush Administration said today it opposes a plan to expand the Mount Hood Wilderness Area.

Center:

1. Interview with Megan Friese, Executive Director of CASA - Court Appointed Special Advocates.

2. Natural World Correspondent John Cooney reports from Willow Creek.

Second Newscast:

1. Mike Van Meter reports from Bend on the first of three applications of a bacterial pesticide to help combat Gypsy Moth.

2. Oregon colleges and universities say they're still feeling the pain of tighter state budgets.

3. Searchers at Wickiup Reservoir in Deschutes County found the body of 50-year-old fisherman Roger Lee Friesen.

4. Reverend Michael Sprauer is accused of abusing young inmates at the Maclaren School for Boys at Woodburn in the 1970s.

First Newscast:

1. Chris Lehman reports on the Oregon House approving a plan to send a revised Measure 37 back to voters in a special fall election.

2. Gays in Oregon may have some new questions to sort through as they consider forming domestic partnerships.

3. Angela Kellner reports on a University of Oregon law professor telling the City Club of Eugene about the public's role in forcing government to address climate change.

4. A Hillsboro Elementary School teacher is accused of trying to sell a student's jacket on EBAY.

5. A 21-year-old missionary for the Mormon church has died after being struck while riding his bike near Kent, Washington.

6. The coach of the women's lacrosse team at the U.O., Jen Larsen, has been chosen women's coach of the year in the MPSF Conference.

Center:

1. Interview with John Crumbley about parenting and anger.

2. Ann Dornfeld speaks with AFL-CIO National Organizing Director Stuart Acuff and AFL-CIO Oregon's Executive Director Tom Chamberlain.

Second Newscast:

1. Oregon voters could once again weigh in on the property compensation law, Measure 37.

2. Eugene Police say 59-year-old Colleen Bagaason died of a cardiac arrythmia prior to her car crash on West 18th.

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