Liam Moriarty
News DirectorLiam Moriarty has been covering news in the Pacific Northwest for more than 25 years. He's reported on a wide range of topics – including politics, the environment, business, social issues and more – for newspapers, magazines, public radio and digital platforms.
Liam was JPR News Director from 2002 to 2005, reporting and producing the Jefferson Daily regional news magazine. After covering the environment in Seattle, then reporting on European issues from France, he returned to JPR in 2013 to cover the stories and issues that are important to the people of Southern Oregon and Northern California.
Liam was promoted to JPR News Director on May 1, 2019.
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County officials say illegal cannabis operations are sprouting up all over Jackson County, outpacing local code and law enforcement efforts. -
Since California legalized cannabis in 2016, many growers in Humboldt County have struggled with the transition to the legal market. The costs of production have gone up and the price they’re paid for their harvests has plummeted. Now, the county has approved the equivalent of disaster relief. JPR’s Humboldt correspondent Daniel Mintz recently spoke with JPR’s Liam Moriarty about the cannabis crisis.
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In this driest of years in the Klamath Basin, the nation’s oldest wildlife refuge for water birds is now getting this season’s first major infusion of fresh water.
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Humboldt County has launched a program to build economic development support for the local cannabis industry using cannabis tax revenue. Now the county’s growers can get technical and capital assistance that was never available before. JPR’s Liam Moriarty recently spoke with Humboldt reporter Daniel Mintz about Project Trellis.
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Federal energy regulators have approved a key step in the long road toward removing four hydroelectric dams on the lower Klamath River to help threatened salmon.
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When Rep. Cliff Bentz visited Klamath Falls Thursday, he brought promises of government aid for farmers who won't be getting irrigation water from the federal Klamath Project this season. And he urged irrigators to resist the temptation to take matters into their own hands.
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There’s not enough water to go around, as irrigators, tribes and fishermen all come up short.
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For the first time since the federal Klamath water management project in Southern Oregon was opened in 1907, the main canal supplying water to irrigators will remain closed this season.
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We journalists tend to believe we’re the good guys. We’re the only profession with specific protections written right into the very first amendment of the Constitution.
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The proposed Jordan Cove Energy Project in southwest Oregon was dealt another setback this week when a pair of local permits was overturned by the state land use board.
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Social distancing to slow the spread of COVID-19 has been shaping most things we do for more than a year now. How we stand in line, where and how we work, who we interact with on a day-to-day basis. But we’re not alone in this. When disease is present, animals socially distance as well.
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Schott said she intends to remain fully engaged in running the university and pledged a smooth transition to her successor.
