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on As We Are: Transgender

Here's a link to the film, "Austin Unbound," that our caller just brought up:

http://www.esodas.com/auabout.html

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on October Ideas

Ed,

This idea is intriguing, but we'd want to talk to folks from the Northwest who have actually left the U.S... or are seriously considering doing so. Also, we wouldn't want this to turn into a political rant show. (In other words, we're not interested in an hour devoted to people threatening to leave if McCain or Obama becomes the next president.) We'd want to get into the economic and social realities at play, for example.

Do any of you happen to know people who have moved out of the U.S. in the last few years? Why did they leave?

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on Elliott Smith, Five Years Later

Corey Dubrowa just mentioned "King's Crossing." You can see a live performance here:

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on Measures 56 and 59: Tax Policy

Trurl9 wrote, against Measure 59: "Double taxation bites but 70% of us don't pay this. The tax system needs to be made fair."

One of the arguments FOR Measure 59 uses the same two sentences, but arrives at the opposite conclusion: that everybody, including the wealthy, should be able to deduct federal tax payments on their state taxes.

So what's more fair?

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on Measures 56 and 59: Tax Policy

Oregon is unique: No other state requires a majority of cast ballots and registered voters for tax increases.

But Arizona's Proposition 105 would put a very similar law in place in November. Details here.

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on Political Ads

In case you were curious, here's Marcus vs HP Deskjet.

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on Political Ads

In the third segment -- after our next break -- we're going to talk about online ads. Have you seen any ads on the internet that really struck you? Perhaps McCain's "The One" or Obama supporters' "Yes We can"?

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on September Ideas

Paul, thanks for this idea. I think it may have legs, and I'll bring it up at our next story meeting.

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on September Ideas

Good question, and I wish I could give you a satisfying answer!

We just looked into this -- we, too, would like to put up a message when we're not live -- and it turns out that because of the funny particulars of our phone system, we can't automatically hang up on callers following the outgoing message. This means that if you called up when we're not live, you'd hear that we're not live, then you'd be switched to a feed of whatever was on the radio at that time. And you could listen. For hours. From Madagascar. And we'd be left with the bill. Apparently something like this has happened before.

So the short answer is that we're all stuck with the ringing, no answer system.

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You can listen to Colin Fogarty's "Celilo Falls" radio documentary, which aired on Oregon Territory last year, right here:

http://www.opb.org/programs/oregonterritory/episodes/2007/0309/

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on Preserving the Harvest

We'll look into this and get back to you.

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on Banking In the Bailout Days

There you go, gbrumley! Andy Giegerich, with the Portland Business Journal, says he wishes all consumers were as smart as you?

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on Banking In the Bailout Days

Here's a helpful list of bank failures since 2000 -- as of five days ago -- compiled by the FDIC. It's interesting to note that very few of the 41 banks are familiar names (The Malta National Bank, Malta, OH?).

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on Mind the Cap

BillBlair,

Thanks very much for your guidance. We'll definitely broaden the conversation to include more than just OHSU's role in this.

For other folks, if you're curious to learn more about "instrumentalities" -- I was! -- you can find a fair amount in the OR Supreme Court's Clarke ruling:

http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/S053868.htm

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on All In The Timing

Scottmil, what excites you about this particular performance?

For other folks, here's a link to L'Effet de Serge.

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on One Last Convention Conversation: Donald Miller

Unrelated, but we do both live in Portland.

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on One Last Convention Conversation: Donald Miller

Ah, I wish we could provide transcripts! It would mean that we have many more hands on deck than we actually do. I'm still waiting for voice recognition software to get good enough to make transcripts more or less error free. Until then, I'm afraid you'll have to download or stream.

(And speaking of streaming, once the buffering is done a slow connection shouldn't be too annoying, I think.)

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on Measure 62: Lottery Funds

And more broadly: how much of our budget should be allocated by mandate, as opposed to legislative discretion?

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on Measure 62: Lottery Funds

But in the meantime, where should lottery proceeds go?

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on Memories of The Depression

Anne Spirn just gave us a provocative notion: that -- in some ways -- life during the Depression was better than it is now. She was talking specifically about families and farmers working together. What have we lost from the time that's normally thought of as desperate and destitute?

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