Emily Cureton
Oregon Public BroadcastingEmily Cureton Cook is a JPR content partner from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Emily is the former producer of the 老夫子传媒 Exchange on JPR and has contributed award-winning programming to Georgia Public Broadcasting. She began her career as a journalist reporting for community newspapers, including the Del Norte Triplicate in Crescent City, California, and the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa, Texas. Emily graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with degrees in history, studio art and Russian.
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Emails show the governor plans to send Ivan Gall for state Senate confirmation May 29. -
More than 60 Oregon cities have diversity, equity and inclusion programs. But as the City of Bend recently saw, a national political movement to end these programs can energize hatred toward local leaders. -
Whoever Gov. Kotek appoints to the job will be in the middle of intense water conflicts worsened by drought, climate change and development. -
Federal lawmakers this week considered drinking water problems in rural Oregon as prime examples of a national crisis. -
At a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, senators pointed to Eastern Oregon, where more than 4,000 wells are at risk from decades of nitrate pollution, and to Central Oregon, where dozens of people blame a gravel mine for sudden plumbing disasters and health concerns. -
A beloved tradition returns with new meanings, and for some, a sense of urgency. -
Key people managing Oregon鈥檚 natural resources have dealt with death threats, attack dogs and gunfire, according to a recent survey of field staff from nine state agencies. -
The museum opened in 1993, becoming a national model for how tribes control their own treasures, and share their own histories. -
Bradbury, who died Friday at the age of 73, served as the state鈥檚 chief election official for a decade, from 1999 to 2009, leading efforts that drastically increased voter turn out and government transparency. -
A developer says his proposed destination resort in Central Oregon will actually benefit the environment. Opponents say it exemplifies injustice in Oregon water law. -
As more wells go dry, a developer in Oregon's fastest growing region maneuvers for water rights. -
An Oregon wildlife official shot and killed a cougar Sunday after the animal attracted the gunfire of armed residents in a neighborhood south of Bend.
