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Survival skills

5:34 PM Thu, Jul 19, 2007 |
Aaron Weiss

Woody Guthrie, Columbia river propagandist

7:50 PM Fri, Jul 13, 2007 |
Aaron Weiss

Tonight's All Things Considered has a fabulous piece on the month in 1941 that Woody Guthrie spent writing songs along the Columbia River.

In what must be one of the cheapest government PR contracts ever, the Bonneville Power Administration paid him all of $266 to promote the Bonneville, Grand Coulee, and other dams. (That would be about >> Continue reading: Woody Guthrie, Columbia river propagandist



Sharing the shaking

12:47 AM Thu, Jul 12, 2007 |
Aaron Weiss

By Aaron Weiss

As much as we depend on the internet for raw data, the web has nothing on the immediacy of our audience when an earthquake hits. Some of you must have our newsroom number on speed dial.

Several minutes before tonight's quake showed up on the USGS site, we got dozens of calls from viewers telling us they felt it. We always apprecia...



Fast Portland?

7:29 PM Mon, Jul 02, 2007 |
Aaron Weiss

fast_cities_logo.gifFast Company magazine has declared Portland one of the 30 Fastest cities in the world, a list aimed at people looking for "the perfect place to transplant yourself and your...