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Blog entries for August 2009
Mon, Aug 31
Adventures at the Pig 'n Pancake
Our intrepid intern Ben Lansky and I enjoyed our time at the Seaside Pig 'n Pancake Friday morning, where diners ... more
Mon, Aug 31
Sweat Ring or Kill Pill
Doing breathalyzer tests over the phone used to be the way officials kept tabs on people in Multnomah County's ... more
Fri, Aug 28
Less Sand = Longer Walks
I learned something new during today's show about vacationers leaving coastal communities. I'm going to chalk this up ... more
Fri, Aug 28
Addictive Writing
Poet Shaindel Beers talked about connections between writing and addiction, among many other things on yesterday's program. One of ... more
Thu, Aug 27
Lovely Rita and Murray
We don't do this enough, but thankfully Rita Bullock from our As We Are: People Over 90 show arrived ... more
Wed, Aug 26
Just Plain Ann
At the end of Monday's show about rewarding students, HerOdyssey pointed out that rewards don't always have to ... more
Tue, Aug 25
Suggest a Show
This is your place to point us in the direction of good guests, juicy topics, feisty conversations, and books or ... more
Tue, Aug 25
The Morality of Staying Healthy?
We got a provocative pitch from LOFoster two weeks ago about "the moral impetus to stay healthy and within the ... more
Mon, Aug 24
Inspired Solutions
Have you ever said "somebody oughta do a story about this!" about the efforts of a friend, neighbor or community ... more
Mon, Aug 24
Motivation: From Outside In
We got a great variety of experiences in the thread for today's show about paying for student performance. I ... more
Fri, Aug 21
Altruism and Healthcare
Midway through our Rx: Patient Values show, I read a comment on the air that generated a great deal of ... more
Fri, Aug 21
A Second Gust
Anyone listening to the last ten minutes of yesterday's Urban Turbines show heard some technical problems. Chris Crowley, the ... more
Fri, Aug 14
The Waste Bass
After the show we had a brief conversation, as usual, with our guest — in this case (Capt!) James Cook. What ... more
Thu, Aug 13
Performance Anyday
Near the end of today's conversation with Virginia Euwer Wolff, when the topic turned to the importance of music ... more
Thu, Aug 13
Back from the Emerald City
Earlier this week I spent a couple of days in the land of Microsoft, Starbucks and the Space Needle: that ... more
Mon, Aug 10
One Size Fits... None?
An interesting comment came in last Monday, after our show about the Bull Run watershed: I think this is a ... more
Thu, Aug 6
A Missing Voice?
Crolson noticed that a voice was missing on our Bull Run Watershed show: I would like to see the EPA ... more
Wed, Aug 5
Sock It to Me
Early in today's show, when knitter Cat Bordhi was getting deep into sock anatomy (with heel flaps, and talk ... more
Tue, Aug 4
"He Never Got Those Letters"
After our show about Which Protests Work, a few weeks ago, we got a comment from Bejail that brought many ... more
Mon, Aug 3
Rx: The Big View
Sometimes we make a big deal about a special series of shows, like the news department-wide project The Switch, or ... more
Mon, Aug 3
Crypto Stories
After 400,000 people got sick from Cryptospiridium — in Milwaukee, WI, in 1993 — I suppose it shouldn't come as ... more
