AUDIO: One day after the Pegasus Pipeline ruptured, oil had been removed from the streets, but yards were still blackened and crews were working to clean up the spill. The incident immediately raised concerns about the potential health consequences for residents who were exposed to the raw crude, as well as the overall safety of oil pipelines. An estimated 5,000 barrels quickly contaminated the neighborhood, with residents of 22 homes evacuated for more than week. The rupture of the 65-year-old pipeline, which carried about 100,000 barrels a day of heavy Canadian tar sands from Illinois to Texas, caused what the Environmental Protection Agency classified as a major spill. Here a family is escorted to their house on Apwhile crews continued cleaning the contamination. Nine days after the pipeline ruptured, residents were only being allowed brief visits to their homes. While the presence of a 1940s era underground oil pipeline might have been in the paperwork when they bought their homes, many told me they were unaware that ExxonMobil’s Pegasus Pipeline was there. On March 29, 2013, residents in the town of Mayflower, just outside of Little Rock, say they heard a loud bang, then saw what was described as a river of oil flowing through their upscale neighborhood. Department of Justice, I again went live on NPR, talking with Ari Shapiro during All Things Considered.ĮxxonMobil Pipeline Ruptures in Mayflower, Ark. After Hutchinson announced a federal civil rights investigation would be conducted by the U.S. National interest in the story only intensified as the day progressed. Asa Hutchinson calling for an investigation. I joined host Rachel Martin to discuss the video and the immediate response, with Gov. The footage showed one officer repeatedly striking the man in the head with a closed fist while another officer was repeatedly kneeing the man in the body. Reporting live on NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered about a police beatingĪ graphic cell phone video showing western Arkansas police officers beating someone on the ground quickly spread on social media on August 21, 2022, with NPR contacting me about going live on Morning Edition. Unless otherwise noted, all photos featured here were taken by me. You can visit my page on KUAR’s website to see a more complete list of stories. Someday I’ll find the time to really dig through all the stories I reported on in my years at KUAR and expand on the experiences and include more photos, audio and other goodies. Many of these stories also live on KUAR’s website, so I’ve included links to some of those online versions. After 12 years of working in radio news in South Florida, with the last six on Miami NPR station WLRN, I was ready to return home to Arkansas.įeatured here are some of the bigger stories or ongoing topics I reported on for KUAR and nationally for NPR News. I had previously been on the air at KUAR in the mid-1990s, first hosting a weekly half-hour interview program in the summer of 1995 as part of an independent study class, then began filling in as a part-time news anchor.
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Then in 2012, I became news director, overseeing a staff that ranged in size over the years, but generally included about a half-dozen full and part-time news staffers, as well as a lot of amazing student interns. Two years later, I was promoted to assignment editor. Beginning in 2009, I worked as an anchor and reporter. I spent 13 years at KUAR-FM 89.1, the NPR station at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. 13, 2014 to discuss Arkansas’ heated U.S. Preparing to go live on NPR’s Here & Now on Aug.
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