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Monday, August 02, 2010 / 8am
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BOOST or Bust?
Political leaders talk all the time about the need to create jobs through small businesses. But a recently-opened Oregon program designed to help small businesses hire more workers is not getting much interest so far. The BOOST program (Building Opportunities for Oregon Small Business Today) offers grants and loans to companies for adding workers. Medford's Pallet Wine Company is one of the few to take advantage of the program; we'll talk to Pallet's managing partner, Dan Sullivan, about how BOOST gave his business a shove in the right direction.
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Monday, August 02, 2010 / 8am
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Advocates on Patrol
When a police officer visits a home on a domestic violence call, chances are good that that officer will be back several times, until something breaks the cycle of violence. That situation is what led Eureka Police to team up with Humboldt Domestic Violence Services on a pilot project... now domestic violence advocates join EPD officers on patrol, giving a new dimension to how police are able to handle some situations. We'll visit with the bosses at EPD and HDVS.
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Monday, August 02, 2010 / 9am
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Penguin at 75
What's black and white and read all over? Spreading literature in affordable paperback form was the founding mission of Penguin Books. Now, the iconic publisher celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nationwide tour of bookstores, libraries and other venues, including Ashland's Tudor Guild Gift Shop, where the publisher's Diamond Anniversary coincides with that of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Penguin-ophile Howard Wall joins the Exchange to talk about the imprint's lauded history, its efforts to take literature to new places, and the art of the word.
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Friday, July 30, 2010 / 8am
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Bikes in Ashland
It's not exactly a bicyclist's paradise, but Ashland is a bike-friendly city for sure. And the city is working to accommodate increases in bikes and bikers by making the city even more bike-friendly, with a number of changes on the drawing board. We'll talk to the city's Public Works director and Transportation Commission chair.
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Friday, July 30, 2010 / 8am
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Logging Logjam
Further plans to log BLM land in Oregon will be difficult to draw up, says a federal task force. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar formed the task force after he withdraw the controversial Western Oregon Plan Review a year ago. Now the task force says with the overlapping policies and restrictions, plus the sharp disagreements over use of the forest land, coming up with a plan to please all interests will be difficult. We'll talk to the people at the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center and the American Forest Resource Council about their views on WOPR and the task force report.
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Friday, July 30, 2010 / 9am
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Saved by a Poem
"Let us go then, you and I…" the words are by T.S. Eliot, but the sentiment is likely shared by Kim Rosen, as she invites us to share her love for poetry. Rosen is a writer and award-winning poet, and she gives the rest of us a clue to feeling poetry and its power in her book "Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words". Kim Rosen will be in Oregon for a series of events in September.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 / 8am
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Medford Food Co-op
Fans of natural foods have limited choices in Medford, at least when compared with the offerings in other cities in the region. That's why a group has been trying for five years now to open a Medford Food Co-op, with a variety of visions for offerings and locations. Now an end-of-July deadline approaches, and it's nailbiting time for the grocery plan. We'll visit with board president Jim Sims about progress toward the goal.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010 / 9am
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Travel with Ed Perkins
Ed Perkins is well-traveled in every sense of the word, and one of our favorite and most popular guests. Why? He knows a whole lot about the travel industry, navigating the industry while navigating throughout the world, and how to find the tips and deals that make life a bit easier while traveling. We'll catch up with Ed on the current issues in the vast subject area of travel, in time to squeeze a vacation in before autumn.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 / 8am
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Fire Danger
It's hot and dry and even windy in much of the region. Plus, there are thunderstorms in the forecast, so the National Weather Service put a Red Flag Warning in place for Southern Oregon and other parts of the state through Wednesday evening. Fires were already burning in parts of both Oregon and California by Tuesday morning. We'll visit with fire bosses at both the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Oregon Department of Forestry.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010 / 8am
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Wednesday Vent
Get the dialing fingers ready (does anybody really dial anymore?)... We'll open up the phone lines for a good old-fashioned vent on some of the major issues of the day. No guest, no Q and A, just a couple of topics of note in the news, and your phone calls and emails. Call us around the region at 1-800-838-3760, in the Medford-Ashland area at 541-552-6782, and by email at jx@jeffnet.org. If the response to this Wednesday Vent is good, we'll consider making the segment a regular feature of the program.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 / 8am
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Transition Towns
If the U.S. is going to kick its petroleum habit, how will communities continue to function in an orderly manner? With planning for the transition off of an oil-dependent economy and culture. But how can communities plan for such a mammoth transition? That's where the Transition Towns comes in. Charles Cresson Wood, author of "Kicking the Gasoline and Petro-Diesel Habit", joins us to explain why he's leading the Mendocino Coast effort to transition toward a more sustainable community.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 / 8am
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Youth Energy Training
Aiding disadvantaged youth and energy efficient building practices are both good ideas. And in Humboldt County, those ideas converge in the Youth Clean Energy Training Program. Young adults will gain hands-on training, green energy construction skills, and a paycheck. College of the Redwoods staff explains...
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 / 9am
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Keepers of the Trees
They offer us shade, clean our air, and offer up raw materials to build our houses, yet trees are generally taken for granted. But not by everyone. Across the country, hundreds of people work to save forests, propagate urban arbors, and fight invasive insects that threaten the nations trees. In "Keepers of the Trees: A Guide to Re-Greening North America", author Ann Linnea profiles fourteen such "keepers" and brings to life stories of individuals dedicated to saving America's trees.
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Monday, July 26, 2010 / 8am
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High-Risk Insurance Pool
The arguments over the federal health care reform bill continue unabated, but we're beginning to see effects from the passage of the bill. The Oregon Health Authority has launched a new federally funded insurance plan to accommodate people with pre-existing conditions. We'll talk with people from the Oregon Health Authority about eligibility and getting onto the list.
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Monday, July 26, 2010 / 8am
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South Siskiyou Free Clinic
What if EVERYONE could afford to see a doctor? What if rather than paying "back" the doctor for his or her expertise, patients paid "forward" by helping others in their communities? These are the ideas behind Siskiyou Free Healthcare, a group based in Mt. Shasta providing free clinics. Participating physician Dr. Jim Parker explains how it works.
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Monday, July 26, 2010 / 9am
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Rodeo in Joliet
Just weeks before his first child was due, Glenn Rockowitz got the news from a doctor: his cancer was terminal. Several years later, he's still alive to tell his story, warts and all, in "Rodeo in Joliet". We'll talk to Rockowitz about his cancer, now in remission, and what he had to go through to join us to talk about it.
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