
Emily Cureton
Oregon Public BroadcastingEmily Cureton Cook is a JPR content partner from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Emily is the former producer of the ÀÏ·ò×Ó´«Ã½ 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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Some residents are so frustrated with Democratic politics that they are trying to change the map so that most of Oregon and a chunk of Northern California would break off and join red-state Idaho.
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American's coffee obsession relies on just one part of the coffee plant: the seed. More often than not, the edible fruit surrounding the pit is thrown away. A Bend cafe has found new uses for all that food waste.
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City of Bend utility customers were notified Tuesday of a data breach that may have compromised credit card information last fall.
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Groundwater in southeastern Oregon is drying up. Farming, which uses a lot of that water, could decimate the region unless communities make drastic changes soon.
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The groundwater table is dropping as much as 8 feet per year in some places.
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U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley introduced legislation this week to better fund water systems in tribal communities.
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Geoff Babb — a stroke survivor — found that most wheelchairs couldn't take him where he wanted to go. So, he invented a new way to hike with friends and family: an all-terrain wheelchair.
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The lawsuit puts a fundamental question to the courts: Can a horse sue a person?
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A Bend, Oregon, inventor designs for more equity in the outdoor adventure community.
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East Oregonian publisher EO Media agreed to buy the only daily newspaper in Central Oregon, The Bulletin, and the weekly Redmond Spokesman.
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The quarter-acre blaze firefighters first reached Wednesday grew to 11,000 acres in under four days. Hundreds of local residents met at Glendale High School to find out how bad it might get.
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Western Communications revealed two Oregon-centric bidders for part of its string of Pacific Northwest newspapers Tuesday, but not a potential buyer for its largest and most prominent paper, the Bend Bulletin.