Fred Echols
Producer and ReporterFred Echols is a long-time member of the WVTF Music/RADIO IQ news department and produces news content as well as public affairs programs. Fred's career in broadcasting began in North Carolina's Triad before switching from commercial radio, where he'd held numerous positions including program director. He was a long-time host of All Things Considered on WVTF and Radio IQ, and listeners still hear him on Radio IQ news programs, including during Cardinal Conversations features. He's also heard during our on-air fund drives.
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The use of license plate cameras by police is becoming more and more common in Virginia. In many cases the cameras are paid for by money from a program called Helping Eliminate Auto Theft, or HEAT. -
A $5 million grant from the U. S. Army will help Virginia Tech develop better ways of preventing possible drone attacks. This kind of research is gaining importance as drones become more potent and more difficult to detect.Tad Dickens reported on this story for Cardinal News and he spoke with Fred Echols.
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Students in Career and Technical Education classes in Southwestern Virginia can now spend their summers working – and earning – as apprentices with companies that install solar power systems.
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Agriculture is Virginia's largest private industry. Matt Busse with Cardinal News recently wrote about farming in Virginia and he spoke with Fred Echols.
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More than a dozen families in Southwest Virginia's Scott County have seen children diagnosed with cancer in the last five years. That's cause for concern in a community of only 20,000 people.
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Danville is expanding its use of a technology that could save money and ease the strain on the power grid all around Virginia. Arlington-based Lightshift Energy will build a second battery system in Danville to store power that city-owned Danville Utilities can use when it's needed most.Matt Busse is covering this story for Cardinal News and he spoke with Fred Echols.
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Doctors in Southwest Virginia, many of whom have never seen a case of measles, are worrying that an outbreak in Tennessee could spread across the state line.
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Southwest Virginia communities waiting for financial assistance from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the wake of Hurricane Helene will have to wait a little longer.
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Pittsylvania County supervisors are scheduled to vote Tuesday night on whether to approve construction of a data center in the northern part of the county.Cardinal News reporter Grace Mamon went to Northern Virginia to see whether data centers there have met financial expectations. She talked with Fred Echols.
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Because Congress failed to pass a federal budget for fiscal 2025, tens of millions of dollars for community projects in Virginia will not materialize.The money would have helped to pay for things like road improvements, emergency communications systems, water quality projects and health care infrastructure.Elizabeth Beyer is one of a team of seven reporters at Cardinal News covering the story.
