WDAY AM-970 news reports

Through a collaboration between Forum Communications-owned properties, Forum reporters regularly contribute to news reports on WDAY AM-970 - primarily through a weekday noon news show, but also by calling in breaking news to the station's morning and afternoon talk shows. (The noon news show was discontinued in September 2010.)

Here are examples of some of my reports:

March 3, 2010 - "News at Noon" (WDAY AM-970): Former North Dakota Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp brings resolution to the "will she or won't she?" guesses about a possible bid for U.S. Senate.

March 18, 2010 - "The Christopher Gabriel Program" (WDAY AM-970): The annual spring flood is underway in the Red River Valley - including the expected overland flooding from the Sheyenne River in the rural areas around Harwood, northwest of Fargo. Overnight, major access roads went under water in that area.

March 19, 2010 - "The Christopher Gabriel Program" (WDAY AM-970): As the spring flooding looks to reach its peak, residents in a rural subdivision become isolated by overland waters and are forced to boat out of their community to reach their cars on the nearest passable road.

October 22, 2009 - "News at Noon" (WDAY AM-970): H1N1 fears have swept the nation and the globe, driving the mass production of vaccines. But delays at the production level mean health agencies in the Fargo-Moorhead region are receiving smaller shipments of vaccine than previously anticipated.

June 28, 2010 - "The Jay Thomas Show" (WDAY AM-970): City and county leaders from the Fargo-Moorhead area and state and congressional leaders from Minnesota and North Dakota gathered for two meetings on Capitol Hill with top federal officials to discuss the need for permanent flood protection in the Red River Valley and gain necessary support for a North Dakota diversion.

June 24, 2010 - "News at Noon" (WDAY AM-970): The process of securing a new U.S. attorney for North Dakota hits yet another delay, as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee puts a procedural hold on the North Dakota nomination - pushing it back until at least mid-July at the earliest.