Erik Neumann
OPB Southwest Washington Bureau Chief / Former JPR News DirectorErik Neumann is OPB’s Southwest Washington Bureau Chief. He has more than a decade of experience as a radio reporter, writer and editor. Before working at OPB, he was JPR's news director and a health care reporter at KUER in Salt Lake City, Utah. Erik has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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The following are headlines from a few local news sites on a recent Sunday. In Ashland: “City Council to vote on camping ordinance, consider funding to extend emergency shelter operation.” In Medford: “Medford council worries about draining last federal dollars to help homeless people.” In Grants Pass: “Parents, superintendent want fence between school and homeless campers.” Besides all being about homelessness, there’s another similarity in these stories. None talked about the lack of housing in the Rogue Valley.
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The company managing facilities at Crater Lake National Park has created unsafe conditions that threaten the park, visitors and employees who live and work there, according to a stern letter sent by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden.
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Stanford's Uncommon Dialogue program is aimed at negotiating agreements between opposing groups on sustainability issues. How can these ideas be applied to dam removal on the Klamath River?
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Ashland, Oregon has not one, but two sister cities. One is in Mexico. And since this summer, there’s another in Ukraine. The Ashland-Sviatohirsk Aid Project is hosting a benefit concert in Ashland this Sunday.
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A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about a gray wolf that was illegally killed in Southern Oregon.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and two environmental nonprofits in Oregon announced on Wednesday they are requesting a rehearing of a plan to expand a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest.
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Here at JPR, we’ve been covering the Klamath dam removal a lot lately. In many ways, this big story about the largest dam removal in U.S. history, comes back to lots of individual stories about home. Who could get their home back because of this project? And whose home could be lost?
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Federal officials have approved expansion of a natural gas pipeline that runs from British Columbia to the Oregon-California border.
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Oregon is suing for more than $27 million in damages from the owners of a private dam near Roseburg after repairs led to a massive fish kill.
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In his Facebook videos from the first days after the fire in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the look on Nicholas Winfrey’s face was painfully relatable.
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A series of lightning-caused wildfires near the Oregon-California border has resulted in an extended closure of Highway 199. Crews are still assessing when the road between Cave Junction and Crescent City will reopen.
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Planned repair work on Winchester Dam near Roseburg has led to emergency salvage efforts for Pacific lamprey. It’s just the latest concern from environmentalists who are opposed to the dam on the North Umpqua River.