An estimated 5,000 barrels quickly contaminated the neighborhood, with residents of 22 homes evacuated for more than week. The 65-year-old pipeline, which carried about 100,000 barrels per day of heavy Canadian tar sands from Illinois to Texas, had ruptured, causing what the Environmental Protection Agency classified as a major spill. While the presence of an underground oil pipeline might have been buried in the paperwork when they bought their homes, many said 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. AUDIO: A report aired nationwide on NPR News on Jabout the federal government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program, with reaction from a Little Rock auto dealership.ĮxxonMobil Pipeline Ruptures in Mayflower, Ark. Unless otherwise noted, all photos 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’ve reported on in recent years and expand on the experiences and include more photos, audio and other goodies I’ve saved in my files. Many of these stories also live on KUAR’s website, so I’ve included links to those versions, too. In 2011 I was promoted to assignment editor, then in 2012 became news director, overseeing a staff of a half-dozen full and part-time news people.īelow are a few of the bigger stories or ongoing topics I’ve reported on for KUAR and nationally for NPR News over the last 12 years. Initially I worked as an anchor and reporter. After 12 years of working in radio news in South Florida, with the last six on Miami NPR station WLRN, I was happy to be able to return to home to Arkansas in 2009 to again work for KUAR. I had been on the air at the station 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 working as a news anchor. Today I’m proud to serve as news director of KUAR-FM 89.1, an NPR member station at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Preparing to go live on NPR’s Here & Now on Aug.
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