Rob Manning
OPB Reporter/ProducerRob Manning has been both a reporter and an on-air host at OPB. Before that, he filled both roles with local community station KBOO and nationally with Free Speech Radio News. He's also published freelance print stories with Portland's alternative weekly newspaper Willamette Week and Planning Magazine. In 2007, Rob received two awards for investigative reporting from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists, and he was part of the award-winning team responsible for OPB's "Hunger Series." His current beats range from education to the environment, sports to land-use planning, politics to housing.
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Oregon's Secretary of State released an audit today (Tuesday) showing the Department of State Lands violated the constitution by spending money it…
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A documentary on a cell of the radical environmental group that claimed responsibility for the arson that destroyed a University of Washington research…
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Three environmental groups intend to take Oregon's Department of Forestry to court over the effect logging has on a threatened seabird.The marbled…
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Industrial facilities in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho released more toxic material in 2010 than the year before, according to the federal toxics…
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-983989.mp3Results from earlier this summer showed fewer Oregon students met federal…
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Federal officials revoked the permission today they had given to Oregon and Washington to trap and kill sea lions on the Columbia River. But Rob Manning…
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-969554.mp3Northwest dam operators turned wind turbines off on Tuesday – putting into…
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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-968185.mp3The amount of wind power in the Northwest is likely to double – and perhaps…
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State and federal agencies can’t go on killing sea lions at Bonneville Dam, after an appeals’ court decision…