JPR Foundation Signs Agreement to Purchase Holly Theatre
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Murray Beats GOP's Rossi In Wash. Senate Race
Challenged strongly by Dino Rossi amid anti-incumbent sentiment nationwide, Patty Murray featured a strong defense of her role in securing federal spending, highlighting specific bridges, dams, highways and other projects she has helped deliver.
Spacecraft Beams Sharp Photos Of Comet's Core To NASA
NASA got some nice pics in their inbox today from space, as the Deep Impact craft sent photos of comet Hartley 2. The viewing of the roughly 1.4-mile-long comet core occurred at 10 a.m. ET, according to the space agency.
After five straight days of gains, the Dow Jones industrial average returned to levels last seen in early September 2008, before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the worst days of the financial crisis.
Guest blogger S. Pearl Sharp reflects on the original For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf had on the black community when it debuted as a stage play over 30 years ago.
'Guy And Madeline,' Singing A Bittersweet Old Tune
Filmed in an intimate retro style,Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench opens with a break-up between a talented but restless jazz trumpeter and a quiet woman drawn to his music. As much about the music as the story, the film is a striking debut from a filmmaker with a future. (Recommended)
'Made In Dagenham' Chronicles A Fight For Equal Pay
The new film brings to life a little-known chapter of the struggle for equal pay for equal work. British actress Sally Hawkins, who plays Rita O'Grady -- a mild-mannered mother and wife who leads a strike at the Ford factory in Dagenham,England, in 1968 -- says the movie is about the power of speaking the truth.
Ski Season Hopes Still Alive At Beleaguered Tamarack Resort
A group of homeowners at the bankrupt Tamarack Resort is pressing ahead with plans to reopen the ski area for business in December. This comes despite a court filing from creditors seeking to liquidate the relatively new destination resort north of Boise.
PORTLAND - The suspense is over in the Oregon governor's race. More than a day after polls closed, Democrat John Kitzhaber declared victory Thursday over Republican Chris Dudley. But as Salem Correspondent Chris Lehman reports, Kitzhaber has a challenging road ahead.
Even Republicans Doubt Rossi Can Prevail in Wash. Senate Race
OLYMPIA, Wash. Republican Dino Rossis prospects of pulling out a win in Washingtons U-S Senate race are dimming. Democrat Patty Murray has increased her lead albeit slightly. New vote totals show she leads by about 25-thousand votes. But the trend line appears to favor her.
"Pine 2 Palm" is Southern Oregon's First 100 Mile Footrace
The most difficult part of running a 100 mile race can be just staying awake. After running all day and into the night, the physical and mental demands of running a century race will often signal a competitors brain to succumb to the usual biological rhythms Read More...
About two years ago, JPR instituted a web and email system called the JPR Incident Tracker at the time we began a major equipment conversion (from analog to HD Radio transmission) and also changed the way we receive many programs from the public radio satellite system. Read More...
Words have always interested me. As a young teen, I was one of those odd characters who liked to read the dictionary because I found the meaning of obscure words, and the root derivations of all words, a thing of wonder. Early on, I began pondering the distinction between the words program and show when it comes to describing news content on electronic media. Read More...
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