Erik Neumann
News DirectorErik Neumann is JPR's news director. He earned a master's degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and joined JPR as a reporter in 2019 after working at NPR member station KUER in Salt Lake City. Erik grew up alongside the Puget Sound and is passionate about the power of narrative storytelling to explore the issues that impact people's lives. He has a diverse range of experience in public radio — reporter, host, producer of live events, and teacher of radio production to young people at Youth Radio in Oakland. Reach Erik at: neumanne1@sou.edu
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'It means the river has a future': Advocates cheer milestone as water flows from a Klamath River damThis week, water started being released from a reservoir on the Klamath River, kicking off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. -
In the coming weeks, water will be let out from behind the three remaining dams on the Klamath River. A century's worth of sediment that has piled up behind the dams will also flow downriver.
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The Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford is working with law enforcement to investigate allegations that misuse of opioids at the hospital resulted in deadly infections.
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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.
