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Inland Journal/On the Record
September 11, 2003 the latest
Spokane City Forum with Dr. Ron Sider, founder of the group "Evangelicals
for Social Action" and a theology professor at the Eastern Baptist Theological
Seminary in Pennsylvania. Sider addresses the question "Should the richest
nation in human history also tolerate the highest domestic poverty level?"
May 29, 2003 We explore a proposal
to cut nearly 10-million dollars from the next Spokane School District
budget. We look at whether the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
program will be eliminated in five Spokane County school districts. And
we talk with a man who is more than halfway through his swim of the Columbia
River, from source to mouth.
May 22, 2003 The Spokane Transit
Authority could be in for some big change. We talk with the agency's new
interim director and the transit board president about reshaping Spokane’s
mass transit future. We'll talk with the man who runs the DARE (Drug Abuse
Resistance Education) program for fifth and sixth graders in Spokane County
about the potential elimination of the program, for budgetary reasons.
We’ll learn about the first book printed in Idaho more than 160 years
ago. It was meant to convert the Nez Perce people to Christianity. And
we’ll go all the way to Austria to learn about a school where witchcraft
is explained. It’s not Hogwarts, for you Harry Potter fans, but maybe
not far off.
May 15, 2003 We talk with Bing
Crosby biographer Gary Giddins ("A Pocketful of Dreams") on the eve of
the Gonzaga University celebration of Crosby's 100th birth. This interview
originally aired in 2001.
May 1, 2003 a look at two public
health issues in the news: SARS and the vaccination for smallpox. We hear
Spokane Regional Health District epidemologist Paul Stepak talk about
SARS at a Tuesday evening (4/29) public forum in Spokane. And we hear
Spokane County Health Officer Kim Thorburn briefing reporters about the
effects of the smallpox vaccine, given this week to 11 eastern Washington
health and hospital workers.
April 17, 2003 features the latest
Spokane City Forum with Tom Fritz, the CEO of Inland Northwest Health
Services, talking about "Health Care Services: How to Survive Intact."
April 10, 2003 features a "Growing
Up Healthy" story about the Spokane Regional Health District urging children
and parents to be active during their spring break. Jyl Hoyt tells us
about how the tug-of-war over water in the Klamath Basin in southern Oregon
will affect the six National Wildlife Refuges in that area. And we talk
with Spokane author Jess Walter about his latest novel, "Land of the Blind",
and about writing in general.
April 3, 2003 Two "Growing Up Healthy" features, one about the environmental
toxins that can potentially affect young children, and the other about
the importance of properly installing child car seats. We also talk with
a University of Washington communication professor about media coverage
of the war in Iraq.
March 20, 2003 We'll hear the
Spokane City Forum, sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church. The speaker
is Major General Bill Essex, former wing commander at Fairchild Air Force
Base. Essex speaks about "Transforming the Military".
March 13, 2003 We'll look at
establishing healthy diets in very young children on our next "Growing
Up Healthy" story. We'll talk with a John Birch Society leader about the
group's beliefs that the U.S. should ignore the calls of the United Nations
in dealing with Iraq. We'll hear astronaut Bonnie Dunbar eulogizing her
former colleague, Cheney astronaut Michael Anderson. And we'll hear about
how the Washington legislature is moving to reduce the state's dependence
on outside sources of oil.
February 27, 2003 a look at the
March 11 Spokane school levy and bond issue. Doug Nadvornick interviews
Superintendent Brian Benzel and citizens' levy tri-chair Scott Jones.
He also talks with John Beal, chairman of the "So Tired of Paying Committee",
which is actively opposing the measures. Doug also looks at a few of the
respiratory troubles that plague infants, part of Spokane Public Radio's
"Growing Up Healthy" series. Steve Jackson talks about worries that the
West Nile Virus will afflict horses and birds in eastern Washington this
spring and summer.
February 27, 2003 This program
features a recent Spokane World Affairs Council forum. The speaker was
former Iranian Education Minister Manouchehr Ganji, talking about the
current political situation in his country.
February 20, 2003 Today we hear
the February 19th, Spokane City Forum, sponsored by the First Presbyterian
Church. The speaker is Chris Marr, Spokane businessman and this year’s
chairman of the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce. His topic is “Whatever
Happened to Business Leadership?”
February 13, 2003 Doug Nadvornick
talks about the death penalty and executions with Don Cabana, a former
prison warden in Florida and Mississippi and now an author and college
professor. Cabana spoke this week in Spokane.
February 7, 2003 Racial profiling
and trying to measure it...excerpts from a conference in Spokane this
week.
February 6, 2003 Growing Up Healthy...Methamphetamine,
Babies and Moms...We explore how meth affects babies and moms, meet two
young moms who were meth addicts when they became pregnant and talk with
a chemical dependency counselor about the effects of the drug.
January 30, 2003 A "Growing Up
Healthy" program, featuring a conversation about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
with Spokane pediatrician Deborah Icenogle. We'll visit Sacred Heart Medical
Center's neo-natal intensive care unit to explore how parents bond with
their newborns. We'll talk about that with Spokane psychotherapist Kent
Hoffman.
January 15, 2003 The Spokane City
Forum, featuring Washington U.S. Representative George Nethercutt, talking
about the big issues the next Congress will work on.
January 14, 2003 We hear excerpts
from a teachers' rally in Spokane against potential budget cuts for public
schools. We hear excerpts from Governor Locke's "State of the State" address
in Olympia. We hear part of a speech about bioterrorism and its potential
effect on the Northwest agriculture industry by WSU Plant Pathologist
Jim Cook, recorded at Spokane's Farm Forum. Steve Jackson talks with folksinger
Arlo Guthrie.
January 10, 2003 John Vlahovich
hosts. We hear excerpts from Spokane Mayor John Powers' State of the State
address before the Spokane Regional Chamber of Commerce. John reports
on Washington legislative leaders' reaction to Governor Gary Locke's proposed
budget. We hear excerpts from Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne's budget
address to the legislature. Steve Jackson reports on two new judges appointed
to the Spokane County Superior Court bench. Doug Nadvornick talks with
the principal author of a new study on child care in Spokane County.
January 6, 2003 John Vlahovich
reports on the long-anticipated closing of the Monroe Street Bridge. Doug
Nadvornick talks with Dutch UN peacekeeper Ben Kolkman about the missions
he has served around the world.
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