Sharon Kleyne Hour

Rep. Ron Maurer (Grants Pass, OR), Oregon State Representative, District Three, and owner of a Rural Health Clinic, discusses how in 2009, House Republicans plan to reduce health care costs by reforming state regulations. The plan expands consumer choice by enabling Oregonians to purchase more affordable health insurance policies that are currently unavailable in the state. For additional information, please visit www.leg.state.or.us/maurer/. Second guest, Tawnya Schoewe (International Falls, MN), Program Manager for Interpretation with Voyageurs National Park, discusses how the park is a mosaic of land and water, a place of interconnected waterways that flow west into the Rainy River, and eventually north as part of the arctic watershed of Hudson's Bay. Named for the voyageurs who paddled large birch bark canoes carrying trade goods and furs between the Canadian northwest and Montreal, Voyageurs is a sight to behold! For additional information, please visit www.nps.gov/voya.