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Jefferson Monthly
The Jefferson Monthly is a magazine mailed monthly to the members of the JPR Listeners Guild, the non-profit organization that supports JPR's service to the region. The magazine features articles, columns, and reviews about living in Southern Oregon and Northern California, as well as a calendar of cultural events and program listings for JPR's network of public radio stations. In addition to the members of the JPR Listeners Guild, the Jefferson Monthly is distributed via area businesses and available in public libraries throughout the region. The publication's monthly circulation is approximately 10,000. To become a member of the JPR Listeners Guild and receive your copy in the mail each month visit our ePledge page.
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One Man’s Peace Corps by Janet Eastman
Photographer Fred Stockwell was not equipped to save the life of a little girl. Or care for hundreds of other refugees barely existing in a Thai garbage dump. He left a relaxed life in Ashland to retire to a place where his nest egg would last longer. How could he know that his plans to take pretty pictures and drink tea with expats would be interrupted by endless tragedy and one tiny girl named Song?
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9/1/2010 |
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Broadcasting History in Our Own Backyard by Ronald Kramer
If you were a fan of the old TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati, you may have wondered how the writers dreamt up such a cast of arcane characters. The answer is, they didn’t. They were all drawn on real people working in radio, which seems to have attracted flamboyant personalities from its beginning.
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9/1/2010 |
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A Week in American Journalism by Ronald Kramer
Two major events occurred during the week before my deadline for this column. An articulate, plain speaking public servant in rural Georgia, Shirley Sherrod, was unjustifiably publicly vilified and NPR news analyst, Daniel Schorr, passed away.
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9/1/2010 |
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Human Health in the Age of Ecocide by Michael Altman
When I graduated from college twenty years ago, I worked for a startup company in New Jersey. Perhaps ironically, the company was marketing environmentally friendly detergents, paper products, and other common household goods. I did a lot of research that summer and became aware of an impending environmental crisis.
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8/2/2010 |
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Back to the Future? by Ronald Kramer
As a child, I recall my mother listening on the radio to “Oxydol’s own Ma Perkins”, when I came home from kindergarten at lunch time. One of the longest-running daily soap operas, Ma Perkins left radio in 1960 when CBS Radio abandoned the remainder of its daytime soap operas. As the World Turns is ending its 53-year television run this month after nearly 14,000 episodes.
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8/2/2010 |
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Wolves Return Home: by Jeannine Rossa
When I was in high school, my family became wildlife obsessed. I should have seen this coming: my mother had forever been dragging us on hikes to see whales (whales: 0, gulls: 153), beavers (beaver: 0, muskrat: 1, mosquitoes: 1,468,000), or sea lions (we actually did see the sea lions but almost drowned in the process).
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7/1/2010 |
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Gifts that Keep on Giving by Ronald Kramer
I once calculated that JPR receives something well in excess of 100,000 pieces of mail a year consisting of a combination of business correspondence, checks from our listeners, programming comments, CDs from aspiring musicians plus routine amounts of sales literature. Amidst this tidal wave of incoming communications, we occasionally discover surprising things.
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7/1/2010 |
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A Trip to Wizard Island by Jennifer Margulis
I’m never at a loss for what to do with East Coast visitors when they come to southern Oregon. There’s so much to experience that the problem becomes finding time to do it all: a guided tour of the Harry & David factory, an afternoon flitting from tasting room to tasting room sampling southern Oregon Rieslings and Viogniers in the Applegate, a white water rafting jaunt on the Rogue River...
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6/1/2010 |
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An HD Progress Report by Ronald Kramer
Over two years ago, JPR embarked upon the largest equipment project in its history when we committed to converting the JPR transmission plant to the new HD Radio system. Because of the number of stations we operate, it is the third largest public radio HD conversion in North America.
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6/1/2010 |
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Credit Unions to the Rescue by Daniel Newberry
Ann Browner’s job was cut back and she lost $15,000 a year in income. She lives in a mobile home on an acre in Grants Pass and had hoped to retire there in ten years, but she awoke from that dream to a financial nightmare.
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5/1/2010 |
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