COMMUNITY SPORTS.
Byline: The Register-Guard COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT Youth golfers take the spotlight this week, with Grant Carey, 6, one of three local boys playing in a national tournament. Carey of Junction City, Hunter Hayes, 8, of Springfield, and Sulman Raza, 12, of Eugene, all qualified for the...

Smith named to women's hall of fame.
Byline: The Register-Guard Bev Smith, the former Oregon women's basketball star, Olympic coach and player, and now coach of her alma mater, has been named to the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith joins five other inductees - North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell, eight-time AAU...

Smith inducted to basketball Hall.
Byline: From Register-Guard and news service reports KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Oregon coach Bev Smith was among six people inducted Saturday night into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. REGIONAL ROUNDUP It is the third major honor for Smith, who is also a member...

From Trail Smelter to Devils Lake: the need for effective federal involvement in Canadian-American environmental disputes.
Introduction On August 5, 2005, U.S. and Canadian officials announced "important progress" in resolving differences over a project to control flooding in Devils Lake, North Dakota. (1) This agreement is a welcome development in a dispute that has been simmering along the Canada-U.S. border for over 40...

Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy.
By James Fallows/Pantheon Books, 1996, pp. 296, $23.00 Reviewed by RAYMOND L. FISCHER Associate Mass Media Editor, USA Today, and Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks Disdain for the media establishment has reached a new low as Americans have come to regard it...

Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda Machine.
By Howard Kurtz / Free Press, 1998, pp. 324, $25.00 Reviewed by RAYMOND L. FISCHER Mass Media Editor, USA Today, and Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks *** Spin Cycle is Howard Kurtz's third book about the media. In Hot Air, he took aim at...

Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir.
edited by Fred Hobson, Vincent Fitzpatrick, and Bradford Jacobs/The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, pp. 37B, $34.95 Reviewed by RAYMOND L. FISCHER Associate Mass Media Editor, USA Today, and Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks Henry Louis Mencken wrote 30 books and contributed to 20...

The Media and the Mayor's Race: The Failure of Urban Political Reporting.
By Phyllis Kaniss / Indiana University Press, 1995, pp. 394, $39.95 Reviewed by RAYMOND L. FISCHER Associate Mass Media Editor, USA Today, and Professor of Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks The idea of a book about a four-year-old mayoral campaign sounds dull, boring, and outdated. However,...

FOR THE RECORD.
Byline: The Register-Guard Deadlines The For The Record deadline is noon the day before publication for Tuesday through Saturday newspapers, and noon Friday for Sunday or Monday newspapers. Items may be delivered to The Register-Guard newsroom at 3500 Chad Drive, mailed to The Register-Guard, P.O....

USA Technologies and MasterCard expand cashless vending rollout in several states.
MasterCard Worldwide and USA Technologies Inc. announced the expansion of e-Port cashless payment terminals to 17,500 vending machines nationwide, adding more than 4,000 new locations that accept MasterCard PayPass contactless payments. These locations are throughout New Hampshire, New Jersey, California, Washington, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, North Dakota, Ohio,...