April's Mop-Up for Monday 6-6-05
Posted by April Baer at June 6, 2005 10:13 AM
This mouthwatering melange of clips from around the OPB listneing area is meant to help you keep up on what's going onjust outside your neighborhood. We also think it's interesting to see what kind of northwest stories are making the national papers.
-Morning Host April Baer
Today in April's Mop-Up
-- Medical Marijuana ruling ropes in Oregon and ten other states.
--More buzz for community radio in Bend. The Point prepares to take the air.
--Britney sighting in Pendleton!
Today's hits from the big national dailies:
New York Times
High Court Allows Prosecution of Medical Marijuana Users
Plan Would Expand Ocean Fish Farming
Let's say you wanted to go into the fish farming business. Right now, you'd be stuck doing it pretty close to the Oregon coast. But this draft plan would let fish farmers set up operations much farther offshore. One scientist from OSU who would like to see a little more caution...
Biffle Turns Hard Start Into Easy Finish
Vancouver WA's Greg Biffle won his fourth race of the Nascar Nextel Cup season, leading all but 10 of the last 160 laps to win the MBNA RacePoints 400.
Washington Post
Cold Drug Curbs Considered in Meth Fight
Congress looks to follow the lead of Oregon and several other states, putting controls ont he sale of pseudoephedrine. This article cites a pretty significant drop in the number of meth labs, implying it's the pseudoephedrine ban that's putting the cooks out of business.
Long Beach at Crossroads Over Plans for LNG Plant
If you've been following the debate over whether to site a liquid natural gas plant near Astoria you'll want a look at this.
Bulging with risks
OHSU doc among presenters at steroid forum.
Seattle Times
Oregon guardsmen evacuated
Washington Counties can say all votes go postal
...and from the northwest's regional papers.
Salem Statesman Journal
Poker machines fold 'em
Oooops. Weekend glitch pits video poker machines on the fritz.
Few new laws have come from legislators
Thoughtful--if short--piece on the scarcity of actually bills passed by legislators this session.
Bend Bulletin
New Point of view
More advance news of the Point radio, the new low-power community station signing on later in the month.
Eugene Register Guard-posted at noon
East Oregonian (subscription only)
Teaching staff files suit against Union-Baer ESD
Suit was filed May 20th, but this is the first I've heard....
Spears adds to excitement of PHS ceremony
Lord, how did we miss this? Britney Spears not only attended graduation at Pendleton High this weekend, she also shook hands with all the grads. Turns out Mr. Spears (a.k.a. Kevin Federline) is related to one of this year's grads, and the couple was attending in support of the family.
Hermiston Herald
(Friday) DEPOT RESTART DECISION PENDING
the Source (Bend's alternative weekly)
Central Oregonian (Prineville)
Baker City Herald
Baker man shares moment in history with new pope
This is an odd little story--John Edvalson was helping guard some German POWs during WWII who apparently counted a man named Joseph Ratzinger among their numbers. Ratzinger is now Pope Benedict XVI. He doesn't really remember the guy, but has a good story to tell about what was going on toward the end of the war.
Lebanon Express updated late morning
The Columbian (Vancouver) updated late morning
Pushing county's growth boundary
Clark County commissioners are considering expanding the growth boundaries drawn last year by a different slate of commissioners.
Child sex verdict reversals alarming
The Daily Astorian (most stories subscription only)
Port blasts back at state in dredge battle
The Port of Astoria has been fined $3,600 by the Oregon Division of State Lands, which claims the port put harmful materials into the Columbia River estuary and didn’t follow the rules as it dredged the slips in the Astoria marina this spring. The State says spoils from marina dredging contained toxins. Lucky subscribers get to read the whole thing...
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http://www.cascadelink.org/ritnet/news.html
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Posted by: David Pool at June 15, 2005 12:11 PM
I run a local website at www.news4neighbors.net . We're picking up and publishing the Portland Stories Project that April Baer did a piece on last month. I'm hoping you could send this on to April, and that April might find what we're doing interesting enough to maybe have us on for an interview.
Here's hoping,
David Pool
Editor,
http://www.news4neighbors.org