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November 11, 2008 Archives


Tuesday’s Web Watch

10:58 PM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 |
Aaron Weiss

We’re feeling a little scattered today. Here’s what we’ll be talking about during the Web Watch segment:


Barack Obama K-8 school?

9:11 PM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 |
Aaron Weiss

Just in from the Willy Wire: Students at Portland’s oddly named “Clark K-8 @ Binnsmead” (formerly Binnsmead Middle School) are petitioning to rename their school for Barack Obama.

I was going to guess that would be the world’s first Obama school. I was wrong. Obama Elementary School >> Continue reading: Barack Obama K-8 school?



Hot Box: Patrick Emerson

8:13 PM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 |
Aaron Weiss

In the Hot Box tonight: Patrick Emerson, OSU Economics professor and author of the Oregon Economics Blog.

We had Patrick on the political show a few weeks ago, and he’s great at making economic concepts accessible to non-economists.

He’s made a couple of great posts this week on Gov. Kulongoski’s st...



PDX Tonight: Buckminster Fuller

7:52 PM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 |
Aaron Weiss

We were originally thinking to send Joe Smith to Guys & Dolls at Portland Center Stage, but since it's the final week, there's no Tuesday show. Lucky for us, both Stef and I are geek enough to want to go to the Buckminster Fuller play instead.

So we’ll give Joe a crash course in Buckyballs and geodesic domes. Here, have a trippy trailer from PCS:...



A note on Lars Larson

4:30 AM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 |
Aaron Weiss

Whew! The phones lit up during the Hot Box segment tonight. Some of you out there REALLY dislike Lars. That, of course, is his job. The man gets paid to fire people up. The good news – we welcome a wide range of opinions on the show. Rest assured we will have plenty of liberals, conservatives and moderates (are there still moderates in Oregon?) on Live @ 7.

Best of all, if you really can’t stand Lars, or any of our guests, tell us! Twi...



Lars in the Hot Box

12:10 AM Tue, Nov 11, 2008 |
Aaron Weiss

Lars Larson is our inaugural guest in the Hot Box tonight. We’re going to be talking about the future of the Republican party.

Got a question for Lars? Leave a comment.

(Don’t worry – we’re going to grill plenty of liberals and conservatives in the Hot Box. Don’t read too much into who we schedule any given day.)

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