of riverboats here in salem and this i believe is one of the last steamers that came down from oregon city. ben wrote over at period of 26 years, about 30800 articles about local history and we are lucky to have scrapped looks that he put together himself with many of his articles. most of the articles were from the capital journal which was a salem paper but he also was published in other papers. his photographs were actually published nationally and in fact some of them were in better homes and gardens sunset magazine and even in "the new york times." this is a really interesting article and it talks about salem's congregational church. the most interesting part for me anyway is a the little bit of information about a pastor named obed dickenson. he was a distant cousin of emily dickinson and what makes him unique was as he came in the 1850s and founded the congregational church in salem had happened to be the first church in this area that was a mixed race congregation. i'm not sure if everyone knows that one flew over the cuckoo's nest was actually filmed in salem but it was found that

oregon, on booktv. located along the river, the city is home to the state's government. it's known for its cherry industry as well as its vineyards and is also home to the oldest university in the western united states. >> the funding of primarily catholic education in the 1960s was the issue. in fact, it was so crucial that it actually had its own name. people called it the school question, and everybody knew what that meant. that meant this question about how religious should public education be and whether we should be funding non-protestant alternatives to public education. it's not that i've set out as a mission to explore the deep, dark, unknown corners of american history, but as i've end countered these stories -- encountered these stories about oregon's history, i know they're not in oregon's history weeks, but they're an important part of our history. >> with the help of our comcast cable partners, for the next 90 minutes we bring you to this capital city to learn about its history and to talk with local authors answer their -- about their book. we begin with p

steamers came down from oregon city. and 3800 articles about local history. and there are many articles, most of the articles were from the capitol journal which is the salem paper, but he was published in other papers and his photographs were actually published nationally, and some of them were in better homes and gardens, sunset magazine and the new york times. this is a really interesting article. it talks about salem's congregational church, the most interesting part for me anyway was called a little bit of information about dickenson, a distant cousin of emily dickinson. what makes him unique was he came in the 1850s and founded the congregational church in salem. it happened to be the first church in this area that was a mixed race congregation. i am not sure everyone knows one flew over the coup's nest was filmed in salem but it was filmed at our state hospital. here is an article by ben in 1958. then put together books of photographs, put together by county, some examples of books from marion county and photographs of st. paul's catholic church and ph

. >> in portland oregon, the city hope projects like this will unleash the potential of thousands. >>kovic makes it to the finals aiming for a third title in the californian desert. >> does that mean that ukraine will draw further into europe's sphere of influence or start looking once again back toward moscow? >> right now, there's no questions about whether or not ukraine should join the european union, because the russian speaking at its own path >> we've seen also that there's the package that would put together of the european union that finally are more ambitious that was the case before it was even started, it also eased incentive for europe. >> as it is, with one half of the country looking more to the west, the other half looking more to the east. will this vote spark further demands from the part that looks toward moscow for more autonomy and breaking away from the government in kiev? >> the situation in ukraine is much different than crimea. for example, the pro russian. >> people in serbia are voting for a new parliament today, widely he can specked to win the election. th

. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to salem, oregon, and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7 p.m. eastern, joshua disiets describes president lincoln's secretaries. then at 8, learn the story of the subway system from doug most. at 9 p.m., annie jacobsen details operation paper clip. and at 10 p.m., "afte

this is how it looked on the graph: people felt the we shaking in several bay area cities and oregon to the north and san diego to the south. there are no reports of injuries or damage and the earthquake did not trigger a tsunami warning. so far, 24 after shocks have been reported. >> a lawmaker is introducing legislation that would force legal trick -- electric utilities to benefit up security in the event of an attack. in san jose an attack knocked out 17 transformers in april. someone cut the cables in a vault and snipers fired on the site for 20 minutes. a state senator wants utilities to develop plans to deal with security breaches, restore power faster, and better coordinate with local law enforcement. >> a stolen municipal utility truck was located in castro valley, the ford pickup was stolen on thursday, and police were worried whoever took it could pose at a utility worker to gain access to homes. no word, yet, if the truck thief has been caught. >> in petaluma, police are looking for this man believed a drive through thief driving up to mcdonald's at 2:00 this morning and o

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some people reported shaking as far south as redwood city and eugene, oregon. the earthquake did not trigger a tsunami warning and there were no reports of damage or injuries. people on twitter described its a strong jolt following by a rolling location. >>> now to the search for the missing malaysian airline. as david piper reports, one of the possible clues to the jetliner's disappearance has turned out to be unconnected. >> reporter: possible clues to the location of the missing jet proving to be false hope. >> the oil taken by the maritime, not from an aircraft. >> reporter: rescue aircraft searching for the malaysian airline planes sports what was believed to be a life raft. later, searchers determining the object was a cable cap. >> so far we've not received any confirmation or verification of the debris. >> reporter: officials will be expanding the search area within the south china sea. the goal, to find the boeing 777. >> we are unable to determine the cause of this incident. >> reporter: as the search continue, authorities are investigating the possib

and yes, in oregon they pronounce it dorchester, named after the dorchester house in lincoln city, oregonst had this meeting. they voted 233 to 162 in support of the marriage initiative. a group of social conservatives boycotted that 50-year-old event this time in protest. said one republican attendee, holding this dorchester without these malcontents is like going deer hunting without an accordion. in other words, who cares? that's the full quote. the rewrite on legalizing marijuana in california is next. [ male announcer ] never before. in the history of mankind. has one march. meant. so. much. your quicken loans college basketball bracket picks could change your life...forever. ♪ the quicken loans billion dollar bracket challenge with yahoo sports. pick a perfect bracket. win a billion dollars. enter today at quickenloansbracket.com. thank you. thank you. i got this. oh, no, i'll get it! let me get it. uh-uh-uh. i don't want you to pay for this. it's not happening, honey. let her get it. she got her safe driving bonus check from allstate last week. and it's her treat. what about a tip?

this town south of the oregon bored er, the tsunami of 1964. 29 blocks of the city, the entire business district was wiped away. buildings were lifted off their foundations and sent somewhere else. 11 people died. it began with a massive 9.2 earthquake in alaska, march 27th, 1964. it sent a series of waves racing down the pacific at 500 miles an hour. about 9:00 the first morning, the first wave had crescent city. there would be a series of four waves. >> the first wave came into about here, second street, about a quarter mile from the ocean. it was the biggest wave anyone here had ever seen but not one big enough to damage buildings or anyone. 30 minutes later, another wave came, this one somewhat smaller. that led people to think maybe the worst was over. some people started to clean up debris around their buildings. a 3rd wave came in bigger than the first and that told some people maybe they ought to seek shelter and then came the 20-foot mall. >> the town newspaper editor jumped in his car and headed inland inland as fast as he could. >> 6 or 7 feet above my head. >> way up there.

. >> a unique program in portland, oregon trying to bring out the soul of the city. we introduce you to the city's creative laureate. >> it's about concentration and creativity. this class of seven and 8-year-olds have been handed some very expensive cameras and taught to have fun. all are helped by julie who holds the grand title of creative larr i can' laureate. this is the first place to have a creative laureate. the portland experiment is being watched closely across the country. >> this is just one initiative pushed by keith to stand out for the creative community. she receives just $5,000 a year. she insist it's not just about the arts, creativity can spring from anywhere and benefit the entire community. >> i hope that the role of the creative laureate is to talk about why creativity is important in a community, why art matters. >> portland is a thriving creative center. the northwest city passed a new $35 tax to help fund and promote art in schools. at a time of budget cuts, that's normally one of the first things to go. the idea for a creative laureate came

. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to salem, oregon, and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7 p.m. eastern, joshua disiets describes president lincoln's secretaries. then at 8, learn the story of the subway system from doug most. at 9 p.m., annie jacobsen details operation paper clip. and at 10 p.m., "after words" with gabriel sherman, author of "the loudest voice this the room." and we wrap up at 11 p.m. eastern with christopher harmon and a citizen's guide to terrorism and counterterrorism. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> robert field talks about the long history of government involvement in the health care system. four key sectors -- pharmaceuticals, hospitals, the medical profession and private insurance -- were built up by the federal government, and he argues that this history must be understood before the possibilities of meaningful reform can be realized. this is about an hour. [applause] >> thank you, dan.

if you look down the holy city oregon state flag. is unique among a nation state flags and at the front and back parts are different from one another. on the front is the state seal and on the back there is a depiction of a beaver. this demonstrates typical of oregonians to think outside the box. senator wyden is no exception. i'm certain he will bring his unique talents to the big job of sharing this great committee. mr. chairman, look forward to working with you in this new capacity, writes out of the gate onto thank you for the hearing. it is very, very important to have secretary lew here and chat is tearing up as obama's fiscal year 2015 budget proposals. again, thank you the secretary lew for appearing before us today. to begin, i'd like to know some problems with the process for this proposed budget has been unveiled. first of all, we received the budget yesterday. a full month past the statutory deadline. but budget information we did receive yesterday is incomplete. for example, when you look at the appendix, there is often

. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to salem, oregon, and the many other cities visited but our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> nader hashemi and danny postel are next on booktv. they talk about the humanitarian crisis in syria and discuss what the international community is doing about it and what still needs to be done. this is a little over an hour. [applause] >> well, good evening, even, and thanks -- everybody, and thanks for the warm hand and your warm presence here on such a cold evening. finish i was after rachel to introduce the three of us as the brass owe brothers -- [laughter] but being chicago -- this being chicago, we figured maybe that wasn't such a good idea, somebody might take us seriously. but john likes it. it's nice to begin with a little bit of a light hearted comment, and i hope to remember at the end to make another lighthearted comment maybe. because everything else in between is not lighthearted at all. we've all been following the syria crisis from three years ago when it started out as a peaceful uprising to a civil w

. >> for more information on booktv's recent book to salem, oregon and in many other cities visited by the local content vehicle, go to c-span.org/local content. >>> next a panel discussion about robert edsel's "the monuments men:" about recovering and protecting european cultural artifacts that the nazis stole during world war ii. this is about an hour and 30 minutes. [applause] [inaudible conversations] there we go. okay. >> roberts second book is entitled "the monuments men: allied heroes, nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history." this panel tonight will discuss those allied heroes the monuments named, the nazi thievebut not thethieves and tht treasure hunt in history. with the ambassadors staff on the panel on the legal also touch on some of the more contemporary efforts by the united states government to address the loss and return of what in the late 19 '90s we began calling the holocaust era assets. in a way what's been done since the 1990s is following in the steps of the monuments named. using the records they created as the guide past and using them to help tu

there are reports of feeling it as far south as redwood city and as far north as u, oregon -- eugene,reports of damage or injury. people on twitter described it as a strong jolt followed by a rolling sensation. >>> we could learn the identity of the of an oakland woman killed when a tree fell on her car in vacaville. the crash happened just before 2:00 yesterday afternoon near cherry glen road. she was driving on the freeway when a tree fell and landed directly on her car. >> never personally seen anything like this happen before. >> investigators are now trying to determine who owns the land where that tree is located. >>> family and friends are remembering a san jose man killed after a car crashed and caught fire. dozens of people attended the vigil last night for adrian ka row now who was kill -- ka row now who was killed -- carona who was killed. his girlfriend is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries. another passenger has serious injuries. police say carona was behind the wheel and they are investigating the cause of the crash. >>> 8:05. and there's less than a month le

hundred sixty eight on a routine training flight in a regular fighter jet along with flood e-mail city oregon an experienced flight instructor yuri good god and the world's first ever cosmonaut despite those attempts to protect him died. pittance in the end you start to think why god got in that what's the reason because there were others there at that time i was persia jumping there too which one has something not happened to us but happened to him of all people what a ridiculous turn of events that was rome it was wrong they made a mistake there particularly against god and. not long before that fateful day thirty three year old yuri gagarin said it seems that i will never die. he was signing his gypsum copy of a statue created by sculptor grigori post because i am at the poker when at the funeral he says to me lucky yuri that you i say would you mean very gory but i mean he will remain in people's minds like jesus christ who died of the same age and so he'll be for every young there that's what pushed you have said and i answered you know it would be right if he had lived to the age of mos

there are reports people felt it as far south as redwood city and as far north as yew gene, oregon. >>> an object in the south asian sea thought to be a life jacket from the missing plane turned out to be trash. still no conformation it has even crashed. that flight left malaysia for beijing early saturday morning. eight countries including the u.s. are helping with the search. the family of one of three americans on board say they are hoping for the best. >> this is pretty fresh and we are processing it and we've just had a little bit of time to be together as a family. >> authorities have questioned the travel agency in thailand that sold one way tickets to two passengers who used stolen passports. >>> we could learn the identity today of an oakland woman killed when a tree fell into highway 80 in vacaville. it happened yesterday afternoon. the chp says the woman was driving in the far right lane on the freeway when he a tree fell and landed trickily on her -- directly on her car. >> we believe it did not by long to the state because of the fence line. but we are still investigating

oregon to bring the program to their state. with more commercial hydroponic farms opening up in oklahoma city, st.is, and washington d.c., urban farming continues to grow. >> there's also a lot of science concepts in the farming systems. i think it's a great way to show kids that science is not just guys in white lab coats. it's actually everything that's around us. it's science for everyone because everyone needs a good science education. ♪ >>> returning now to our top story. there's late word tonight that president obama and russian president vladimir putin spoke by telephone for 90 minutes this afternoon about the crisis in ukraine. the white house said the president condemned russia's military intervention this ukraine, a statement issued by the kremlin afterwards quoted putin as saying russia researches the right to protect its interests and those of russian speakers in ukraine. earlier today ukraine mobilized its forces after the russian parliament authorized sending russian troops there. russian troops have already seized control of crimea. thanks for watching. >> pbs news hour weekend is m

oregon. the suspect was later shot and killed by police. >>> the oakland city council has agreed to a $3 millionshing into the hills. she was riding down the boulevard. the 35-year-old suffered severe injuries to her face, head, jaw, and teeth. she sued, arguing potholes made the ride dangerous. the city fixed the potholes later that year. the settlement has yet to be final lietzed. they say it could be the biggest payout of its kind. let's get a check of the forecast now with lisa argen. >> look how blue the sky is. not everybody in the sunshine yet. 42 in redwood city. 47 in san jose. 51 with fog at half moon bay and at about 1,900 feet. this is our hill camera. there is the low cloudiness. chilly in novato. we're on our way to a sunny and mild afternoon. bay area wide even at the coast, cool there, 61. 71 in fremont. katie? >> lisa, thanks. police shoot a man in a quiet san francisco park. what happened before they opened fire. >>> and why the 49ers are clashing with a group of soccer moms. abc 7 news at 8:00 is next. i'm katie marzullo. it's 8:00 a.m. we're so glad you're with us. we'll star

that will be easy the port of oregon don't that you may not park anything overnight in portland but your gowns is also coming with recommendations there are areas in the city that have long-standing issues and there's supervisors that says mta can you help us what the oversized parking problem so your recommendations for the use briefly is this ought to be prioritized and guide by the parking. the perimeters of parks and school yard perimeters and playground perimeters they have a long curb and they park there limited on street parking most of the city feels there's not enough parking. street with vehicles subject to graffiti and dumping and other blight this is a known area and vehicles that are there get covered with graffiti and finally this is an importance. when others parking measures for instance, parking meters and time limits are not indicated or planned. we think it's better to be using parking meters they'll help to keep people moving. again, after we brought the recommendations and evaluation we recognize there are other locations are approved by this june 4th meeting and the limited locations was approved we knew there were other locations we'

oregon and washington and british columbia columbia to develop the interest infrastructure challenge that works to strengthen finance important public-private partnerships across the jurisdictions. we bring the steps of expertise to help citieslobally understand their vujtd and chateau additional resources from the private sector as well as the municipal financing. so similar on our citizen technology we launched one hundred cities challenge by 2015 all one hundred cities will be chosen and each will receive 4 support first to have an officer that will be the central contract to cooperate and oversee and perspire intents and work across our losses in municipal government. we're pleased to announce that san francisco has selected their chief realigns officer in the front row here you know from the earthquake and we're working with other cities. the second we think that the cities get is the support for the chief realigns officer to lead the strategies of the city. third cities in this network and that is really quite an innovation will have access to an integrated platform of services ledger millions of dollars of resources far beyond our initial one hundred million to support the reliance strategy those clus include the spur

the proposed keystone xl pipeline cross-border segment would link oregon and montana with with the canadian order to steel city nebraska. would have the capacity of 830,000 barrels of tar sands per day. later this year the state department will determine whether the project is in the national interest and that is the question we will hear testimony about today from our four panelists. i hope this can be a balance thoughtful hearing, hearing that puts aside some of the politics that have surrounded this debate in deal with the underlying question of what is in our national interest. i hope we can build a record on both sides of this debate that may not result in agreement that may result it more agreed-upon facts. opponents of the pipeline point to jobs, economic development and energy security as reasons why the pipeline should be approved and claimed that the arm to the environment is overstated. opponents raise climate change concerns about potential spills and downplay energy security or economic advantages of the pipeline. that's not to say i don't have my own views. they do but i want to hear the facts fr

includes the city and thunderstorms gusty winds and hail from the eastern texas and to mississippi to that cross the west and not see what i once again for the north west including oregon and washington and northern parts of the california at a noble lies i can at most times less because the academy awards ceremony will be taking place like tiny skyscraper high that when he decrees a new monday. very chilly in the north passing mention in mindset and in cheek aisle in nineteen seventeen decrease human effect on the first day of protests this week the finally over europe and nasty weather about whether once again for the western continent and the british isles. the worst of the area's going to be fine over the iberian peninsula and fries i knew monday higher rates up to ten meters unlikely for the northern coast of getting the anthem is not the weeds are going to be up to one hundred km hour in a tearing me up to twenty centimeters of snow is likely for a monday and could be fined owing to stay strong winds and read and precipitation for the rest of the western parts of the continent. and meanwhile we have our east of the severe weather for the black sea region and of a

>> guest: portland, oregon--in terms of stopping a highway and then installing a n--a new system that enabled people to build up the city and to conduct their lives not on wheels. but there are 12 new lines of mass transportation, and there are a lot of places--the best places we have in this country in terms of livability and also not just aesthetics--the most expensive residential housing we have is p--are places where you don't really need a car: the georgetowns, the back bays, the san franciscos, where you can walk around without an automobile. c-span: what have--or what has the wal-marts done to the country, to the ca--to the automobile? >> guest: well, i think the superstore is really the enemy of main streets. this is an argument that has at its root a kind of notion that distance is dollars and distance is destroying our lives and that we should be concentrated on cores and main streets, walkable ones. it doesn't have to be manhattan, super density, but it can be a way of--of walking around and conducting. two-thirds of our--the miles we travel on our cars, 10,000 to 12,000 miles, are spent shopping and dropping

oregon, washington, and hawaii. they destroy everything in their path, houses, cars, fishing gear, all along the pacific coast. in ocean stirks washington, a bridge collapsed, in crescent city, california, a dockside tavern was destroyed. in hilo, hawaii, 12 1/2-foot waves overran the waterfront. waves in rivers and lakes and harbors caused damage. it wasn't extensive damage but caused damage along the gulf coasts of louisiana and texas. just think about how this massive earthquake just really reverberated around the world. if you look again to the map that has the epicenter here, you would think that the extent would just be where the epicenter lines the felt limits go. but in fact when you account for the tsunami effect, it truly was an amazing, amazing amazing inse where mother nature comes together in a massive and violent way. as we think about the devastation, the loss of life, the lost property, you have to ask the question whether or not anything good can come from a tranl did tragedy like the goody earthquake? the answer has to be yes. we came together to help rebuild the worst-hit communities. we rebuilt them to withstand earthquakes and in locations that are prot

oregon is the only exchange in the country that consumers can't use on their own. you have to call. and a mystery to tell you about in san jose, california. the city given the green light to a massive two million square foot complex. only problem? no one knows the name of the technology company, we assume, that will eventually be there. most of the officials and the developer won't release the name, but this is going to be one of the largest silicon valley office projects ever. and that's your west coast minute. adam: taco bell, alibaba. taco bell, alibaba. cheryl: i mean. alibaba, that's a good test. adam: coming up, a 10-hour search this the indian ocean and still no sign of that missing plane. the next steps for malaysian airlines flight 370. cheryl: two million people, ten days to go. the last minute celebrity push as the white house tries to meet its health care goal sign-up. adam: and check out energy prices, oil bouncing back. ♪ ♪ up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million peo

this is the second police shooting for the city of fresno since the first of the year. >> two 17-year-olds from oregon are facing adult murder charges. seventeen-year-old brett pearson says he and his friend were high on meth when his parents were shot. pearson's father survived, but his mother did not. he is now in jail - accused of murdering one parent and shooting the other. brett says he and his friend robert miller, had been using meth for three weeks straight and that's what fueled their actions. >> it was a sense of showing no emotion. it was nothing or around that mattered. except for us. the drugs. >> brett admitted he shot at his dad that night but doesn't know if he hit him. both teens will be tried as adults. >> the woman who drove her van into the ocean in florida -- with her young children inside -- is set to face a judge this morning. police say ebony wilkerson was clearly trying to kill all three of her children. people who saw it happen on tuesday. ran into the water to help. they head the children shouting and pleading for help. eventually all of the children were carried to safety.

escape modern society in oregon sixty five year old gary harrington was actually sentenced to thirty days in jail and fined fifteen hundred dollars for simply collecting rainwater cityofficials cited in one nine hundred twenty s. law that gave the county full ownership of runoff water line him with ninety misdemeanor charges because apparently you need a license to own a rain area standing in front of one of the illegal ponds on his property and just last year after refusing to destroy his ponds harrington was found in violation of the law yet again for appropriating water without a permit this landed him yet another jail sentence only this time it was for ninety days. listen sort of cracking down on these people they should be commended and serve as examples for the rest of us and how we can all live more sustainable and potentially more fruitful lives because cooperated with nature might be the last chance we have to save the planet for ourselves and it's an activity that should never be punished by utility companies that do just the opposite. paying attention to the overwhelming amount of negativity in the world know how the bill attaining it can be to simply bei

oregon, as well as washington will see showers out of this system. we are not. we're going to remain dry. 48 degrees right now in concord, 50 in fairfield, 48 in oakland. low 50s in redwood cityes, a little cool this morning, but as we get into 8:00, even 9:00, even better, temperatures will see a pretty quick rebound. 48 for concord right now, but take a look. by 10:00 or so, already nearing 60 degrees. then as we get into the lunch hour, low 70s. 73 at 1:00. 78 at 4:00. sun setting about 7:20. and sun rose about 7:20 this morning. as we get closer to the vernal equinox, 12 hours of daylight. 79 for santa rosa this afternoon. 72 in berkeley. mid-70s in oakland. 72 san francisco. 78 in concord. 80 degrees for areas like antioch, as well as brentwood. upper 70s for san jose, los gatos, santa cruz. 80 in morgan hill. 81 expected this afternoon in gilroy. now, with this fabulous beach weather in store for your weekend, there is an advisory. it starts tomorrow in the afternoon. a high surf advisory, with breakers to about 18 feet possible for sunday, lasting into early monday morning. the rip currents and the sneaker waves will come along with that high surf advisory. your extend

city. you might want to check in with andy flawless fact i probably should he's running for mayor and he's pretty knowledgeable guy about these things are junior in portland oregon virgin you want to talk about the national debt yes i watched a program called what is the earth were on the history channel and they looked at gems minerals fossil fuel timber agricultural crops fresh water a few other basics that are part of the plan act and based on their estimation the u.s. has got to be worth over a quadrillion dollars which makes our seventeen trillion dollar federal debt the equivalent of a seventeen thousand dollars home equity loan on a million dollar house and yet the republicans whipped everyone into a panic about this debt and used it to win the argument in congress you have to find a pay for we can't afford it we can't subsidize people to not work we can't and it is ludicrous that we have let them own this terrain we need to re frame it they put the debt against the profit loss statement not against the liability statement they're doing bad accounting and they've convinced the chicken littles in their base that the sky is falling and we have to take this

oregon. portland is the first city to name a creative laureate. what does it mean? an official went there to find out. >> it's about cooperation, concentration and creativity. >> this class of seven and eight-year-olds have been handed expensive cameras and told to have fun. all are helped by julie keef, with the ground title of creative laureate. many cities have poet lawyer yet, this is the first to have a creative lawyer yet. the idea is to get people to think creatively about where they live. the portland experiment is being watched closely. this is one of the initiatives pushed by keef. she's a 2-year mission to promote, develop and stand out. for that she receives $5,000 a year. she insists it's not just about the arts. creativity can spring from anywhere and benefit the community. >> i hope the role of the creative laureate is to talk about why creativity is important in a community, why art matters. >> portland is a thriving center. the north-west city passed a $35 tag to fund and promote art in schools. at the time of budget cuts, that's one of the first th

. >> for more information on booktv's recent book to salem, oregon and in many other cities visited by the local content vehicle, go to