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Oregon Tax Package Fails, Could be Brought Back A 730-million dollar budget balancing tax package is suddenly
in jeopardy in Salem. One of the tax bills failed on the floor of the
Oregon Senate today. The surprise development came
down to one vote. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | University of Idaho Starts Inquiry on Sheep ResearchThe University of Idaho has begun an investigation into allegations that its veterinary center kept quiet about research into disease transmission among sheep. The revelation is important because of the debate about domestic sheep grazing on public land in the Northwest.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | New Telephone Scam Targets Grandparents It’s being dubbed the “Grandparent Scam” and the target is Idaho
seniors. The Idaho Attorney General’s office reports a growing
number of complaints about this new telephone scam. Boise State
Radio’s Don Wimberly has more.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lawmakers Give Initial Approval Soccer Stadium FinancingThe Oregon House today approved a five million dollar grant to help renovate a minor league baseball park into a soccer stadium. The money would come from income taxes paid by players and staff of the team.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Catch Rainbow Trout Win CashState officials are now offering a big cash incentive to anglers who catch rainbow trout. Correspondent Doug Nadvornick explains why.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | StoryCorps Wenatchee: Harriet Bullitt and Wilfred WoodsThe retired publisher of the Wenatchee World newspaper, Wilfred Woods, told his friend Harriet Bullitt about the role played in the creation of the dam by his father and the founder of the paper, Rufus Woods Sr.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Feds Halt Deportation of Widowed Immigrants Years of work by a Portland immigration lawyer are paying off. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano granted a reprieve today. It applies to foreign born spouses of American citizens who face deportation after their partner’s death.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oregon House Passes Two Major Tax MeasuresCorporations and people in upper income brackets
would pay more income tax under a pair of bills narrowly approved
today in the Oregon House. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Study: Wildfire Mitigation Work MisdirectedA scientific review published today says only a small
fraction of the federal efforts to reduce fire danger in the West is
happening near the homes that face the greatest risk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WA Community Colleges Consider Financial Emergency Declaration The community and technical college system may declare a “financial emergency.” It would allow the college presidents to fast-track lay-offs of full-time and even tenured faculty.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The New Face of Northwest’s Uninsured: Middle ClassAs more-and-more people lose their jobs, the new face of the uninsured has become middle-income Americans. Correspondent Austin Jenkins profiles a Northwest woman who’s out-of-work and uninsured.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cruise Ships to be Used as Lodging for Vancouver OlympicsHotel rooms are so scarce for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver next February that four cruise ships have been chartered to add temporary rooms during the Games. Correspondent Tom Banse reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oregon Woman Dies of Swine FluOregon saw its first death from the H1N1 virus, or swine flu. Correspondent Jes Burns has the details.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bill Would Result in Fewer Mandatory Workplace MeetingsOregon Senate lawmakers approved a measure to prevent employers from requiring their workers to attend meetings related to religious or political matters.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oregon Lawmakers Give Initial Approval to Health Care ExpansionEven as the state budget is under stress, Oregon is one step closer to adding people to state funded health insurance under a bill approved today in the Oregon House.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Number of Washington Unisured Keep GrowingAs of April this year, the U-S Bureau of Labor Statistics reports
Washington’s unemployment numbers hovering just below
double-digits, at nine percent. Consequently, the state’s Office of
the Insurance Commissioner says the number of people without
health insurance has spiked over the past year.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WA Republican Reacts to Basic Health Plan Higher PremiumsWashington state will not cut 40-thousand people off
state-subsidized healthcare as was expected. Instead, the state
will impose higher premiums and co-pays on Basic Health Plan
enrollees.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Northwest Cherry Harvest to be Big, a Little LateThe Northwest cherry harvest will begin next week, a little later than usual. Andrew Willis from the Northwest Cherry Growers says the cool spring has finally given way to summer-like weather. He says that’s allowing the already-formed fruit to ripen.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's the Future for the Umatilla Chemical Depot?It’s unusual for 20,000 acres of undeveloped land to become suddenly available for new use. But discussions are underway about what to do with a valuable parcel near the Columbia River in eastern Oregon. The only trouble is it’s been home to 12% of the nation’s chemical weapons. Correspondent Anna King has the story.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WA Basic Health Plan Cuts to be Announced TodayOfficials in Washington state will announce later this morning how they plan to reduce the number of people on the Basic Health Plan by $40,000 in order to close a $9 billion budget gap. Correspondent Austin Jenkins reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Last Push for Digital TV Conversion StartsThe U.S. officially converts to digital television on Friday, June 12. The Federal Communications Commission and community groups are working to make sure all Northwest viewers will be able to pick up the new signals. Correspondent Doug Nadvornick reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | OR Bills on Ethanol, Beer and Driving While Using Cell Phones on the FenceAs the end of the Oregon legislative session draws near, many bills are getting left behind as lawmakes try to balance the budget. Correspondent Chris Lehman looks at a few.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jobs and Revenues Will Lag as WA Economy RecoversWashington state coffers won’t start filling back up again until late 2010. That’s the prediction from the state’s chief economic forecaster. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wolves in Washington Slowly Gain PresenceWashington’s wolf population is quietly rebuilding. The state is doing what Idaho and Oregon have already done: writing a plan for how to manage wolves. Doug Nadvornick takes us to a valley where residents are adjusting to life with wolves nearby. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WA Chief Economist Predicts Recovery, But SlowWashington state tax revenues won’t start to bounce back until late 2010. That’s the word today from the state’s chief economic forecaster.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Budget Cuts Mean Shift in Prison Guard TrainingSome Oregon prison guards are objecting to a plan to de-centralize training for new recruits. Supporters say the move will save more than eight million dollars and won’t harm safety.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Idaho Unemployment Rate Hits 22 Year HighState Labor Department spokesman Bob Fick says the rate went up .8 of a percentage point in May. He says that came as a surprise because April’s jobless rate was unchanged.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lawmakers Vote to Place New Restrictions on Towing CompaniesOregon lawmakers voted today to limit when towing
companies can make off with your vehicle. The measure would
require tow truck drivers to take a photo proving that any car they
tow is parked improperly.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Eastern Washington’s Energy Northwest Considers Building New Nuclear PlantTwenty five Northwest public utilities are considering
whether to pony up 25-thousand dollars each to study the possibility
of a new nuclear power plant. What’s surprising is the request comes from Energy Northwest. That’s the company, renamed now, that brought the Northwest the failed WPPSS “Whoops” project back in the 1970s and 80s. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Concerns as WA Prepares to Cut 9400 Offenders From Community Supervision Washington state is preparing to stop supervising nearly
10-thousand ex-cons on probation. That’s because of budget cuts -
and a policy decision to focus on the highest-risk probationers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Oregon’s Umatilla Army Depot Starts Destroying Mustard GasThe last nasty chemical weapon that remains at Umatilla
Chemical Depot in eastern Oregon is mustard blister agent.
The U.S. Army just got the go ahead from the State of Oregon to
start destroying more than 2,000 massive containers of the
chemical weapon.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Major Tax Bills Moving in SalemTwo major tax bills aimed at balancing Oregon’s budget got
their first official stamp of legislative approval today.
The measures would increase taxes on corporations and upper
income earners.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lawmakers Back off Nickel GrabOregon lawmakers are backing off an attempt to divert millions of dollars of unredeemed bottle deposits into state coffers. But an amended version of the bill would shed light on how much money drink distributors collect.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Blaine Border X-Ray Nabs Two Illegal StowawaysCustoms and Border Protection officers spotted the stowaways as the train passed through the border on Sunday. An X-ray scanner picked up the outlines of their bodies.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WA Secretary of State Concerned About Plan to “Out” Referendum Petition SignersOpponents of Washington’s newest gay domestic partnership law plan to start gathering signatures this week. Meanwhile, the Secretary of State’s office is now voicing concern about a plan by gay rights activists to publish the names of petition signers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fiat/Chrysler to Obey State ‘Lemon Laws’The Chrysler bankruptcy won’t affect Chrysler owners in the Northwest who try to use their states’ “Lemon Laws” to get their cars fixed. State attorneys general announced today they have reached an agreement with the owners of the new company.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Klamath Tribal Members Share Their HistoryIn the early part of the twentieth century, the Klamath tribes were one of the few success stories of the reservation era until the reservations were taken from them. Correspondent Andrew Bartholomew brings us an audio postcard from tribal members. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Battle Over Grey Wolves Heads to Federal CourtThe howling is far from over. The battle over whether wolves in Idaho and Montana should be put back on the federal endangered species list is heading to federal court. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Wolf Recovery Plan Challenged AgainConservation groups and the state of Wyoming are challenging the Obama administration’s decision to end federal protection for Rocky Mountain wolves. The wolves went off the list last month. The two parties each filed lawsuits today, but for very different reasons.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Puppy Mill Bill Advances to Governor’s DeskOregon dog breeders face new regulations under a bill approved today in the Oregon Legislature. The law is aimed at making sure dog breeders treat their animals humanely.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | ID Senator Crapo Calls for Salmon Recovery DiscussionsIdaho Senator Mike Crapo says if settlement discussions produce a consensus that the Snake River Dams need to be removed for salmon recovery he would support itListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Boardman Power Plant Would Have to Reduce Pollution Under New Plan, Enviros Say it’s Not EnoughA new proposal from the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality would cut back smog from Oregon’s only
coal-fired power plant. Pollution from the facility has been found to
reach as far away as Mount Rainier.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Renters Could Get Reprieve if Rental Unit is Sold in ForeclosureRenters in Oregon could get a temporary reprieve from their landlords’ financial problems. The Oregon House today approved a measure that gives renters at least 30 days to move after the unit they’ve been living in is sold in a foreclosure proceeding. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Restaurant Menu Labeling Bill Headed to Governor’s DeskLawmakers in the Oregon Senate today approved a bill that would require chain restaurants to post information on calories beside all items on the menu. The law would only apply to restaurants with 15 or more locations nationwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waiting List For WA Health Insurance Explodes as Deep Cuts LoomIt’s an irony not lost on Washington state officials. Just as they’re preparing to cut 40-thousand people from state-subsidized healthcare, the waiting list for that very program is exploding.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Idaho School Districts Declare EmergenciesAbout a dozen Idaho school districts have declared financial emergencies as the state cuts their funding. Under a new state law, the declaration means districts can renegotiate labor contracts. Correspondent Doug Nadvornick reports.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | WSU Postpones Target Date for Budget PlansWashington State University says it will announce its final budget decisions by mid-June. Correspondent Glenn Mosley explains.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Yakama Elder Keeps Her Native Language AliveIt’s not that often a person in their 80s pursues a doctorate. That’s what Virginia Beavert is doing at the University of Oregon. The Yakama elder is studying linguistics and teaching her native language Sahaptin. Correspondent Rachael McDonald reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fungus May Help Eradicate Invasive Cheatgrass in NWOne of the most dangerous fuels for wildfires across the West is cheatgrass. It’s hard to kill and spreads rapidly. Now, scientists are testing a new biological control called the Black Fingers of Death. Correspondent Anna King reports.
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