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John Carr's not a scofflaw; he got a permit.
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on Lottery Profits
Rorybowman: sorry for the gender misidentification! Names are hard sometimes!
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on Suggest a Show
We thought the same thing. You can listen to our conversation with Bill McKibben from September here:
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/conversation-bill-mckibben/
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on Suggest a Show
We did talk about this — in a roundabout way — on this show. And I think we'll dig a little deeper this coming Friday.
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on Legislating from Home
I'm glad we cracked the top five!
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on Legislating from Home
This is from our listener Fred Greatorex, who reached us by email on his iPhone but couldn't comment on the site this morning:
Having legistators voting from their home districts is the most BRILLIANT IDEA for Oregon since we adopted the "Oregon System" of voter initiatives.
Set up each district with an office with video confrencing and BANG we're off to show the rest of the country how to run a state fir the people by the people!!!
Voters win with better access to their representitives.
Legistators win because they don't have to move to Salem or take a
leave of absense from their jobs.
The way I see it is that the only losers would be the lobbyists who wouldn't have the convinience of all the law makers in one spot.
Now all we have to do is amend the state constitution so that it and all laws are written in plain English, and we the people can vote on new laws, taxes and amendments by popular vote!
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on Rx: Medicare Reimbursement
David,
I'm not sure it's an elephant, in that Lynn Bentson did address the issue (if briefly) at the top of the show.
But you might be interested to hear this whole hour about compensation and doctors:
http://www.opb.org/thinkoutloud/shows/rx-doctors-salaries/
Dave
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on Pregnancy Pounds
Body mass index is what they're using as their benchmark. But since height doesn't change, and since BMI is based on the relationship between weight and height, weight is what these doctors seem to be focusing on.
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on Reading the Northwest Weather
Since you're a committed fan, you might enjoy these two (count 'em, two!) hours of radio about Groundhog Day I produced at my old show:
http://www.radioopensource.org/groundhog-day/
http://www.radioopensource.org/groundhog-day-day-two/
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on Reading the Northwest Weather
Since I brought up Groundhog Day, I can't resist another (weather-related) GD reference. This is from when weatherman Phil Connor, caught in a massive snow storm, is trying to drive home to Pittsburgh:
Phil: Hey commander, what's going on?
State Trooper: There's nothing going on. We're closing the road. Big blizzard moving in.
Phil: What blizzard? It's a couple of flakes.
State Trooper: Don't you listen to the weather? We got a major storm here.
Phil: I make the weather! All of this moisture coming up out of the Gulf is gonna push off to the east and hit Altoona.
State Trooper: Pal, you got that moisture on your head. Now you can go back to Punxsutawney, or you can go ahead and freeze to death. It's your choice. So what's it gonna be?
Phil: [pauses] I'm thinking...
(Thanks, IMDB!)
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on Rx: Individual Mandates
The focus is on individual mandates: a requirement for individuals to buy health insurance, which very well could become federal law. We're starting with a conversation with two folks from Massachusetts because they've had a similar statewide system for the last three years.
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on Rx: Individual Mandates
Empkae,
Thanks so much for your comment. I'm curious to know: given your son's mistrust of government health care, and his disinclination to apply for government assistance of any kind, what system do you think would be best for him? What system would provide the care he needs in a way he would find safe?
Dave
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on The Future of Journalism
What do you read — online or off — from Monday through Thursday?
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on Northwest Passages: Sherman Alexie
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. We do a fair amount of research for these shows — including reading books, criticism, previous interviews, blog posts, etc. And we try to foster a conversation on this site, as well, obviously.
We don't "look for controversy," exactly, but we don't shy away from it, either. And in fact we hope that all of this is transparent.
More broadly, I don't make a huge distinction between comments left here and comments we find in other places. I mean, I greatly value the community that we're building on this site, but I think it would be a mistake to pretend that other interesting conversations aren't happening in forums all over the world.
As for your last point, I share a belief in that goal: we're definitely looking for insight!
Take it away Emily!
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on Northwest Passages: Sherman Alexie
I spent 10 minutes trying to guess! Sorry I got it wrong!
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on Northwest Passages: Sherman Alexie
Wow! A wedding proposal
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on Northwest Passages: Sherman Alexie
Here's a little gem that Alexie wrote in The Stranger last summer about the Sonics:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=631015
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on Town Hall 2.0
Misscookie wrote:
"People who may not normally engage in political debate have an avenue to have local politicians listen to them."
My devil's advocate question: how do we know they're actually listening?
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on Rurban Living
My understanding is that he can sell right now — and he gets offers regularly. There is some question (as you probably heard on the show) about whether his grand plans of a farm-development mix would work with the as-yet-unreleased zoning regulations of Damascus.
But as far as I've heard, being inside the UGB means that, somehow, your land is either urban or urbanizable.
I haven't heard about farms inside the UGB that can't be developed. I've always assumed that's a choice that farmers are making.
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on Rurban Living
He absolutely can. He's inside the UGB now, and can sell it to a developer.
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