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This topic was slightly interesting last week when it was on Fresh Air. Why are you wasting an hour on it again this week? I can't tell if this would be worse then the continued, endless begging for money that we obviously don't want to give you. SHUT UP!!!!

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A great reference book for this topic is "Bushmanders and Bullwinkles" by Mark Monmonier. As a grad student at Syracuse University I worked on a project where I tried to create a "minority-majority" Latino voting district in the central valley near Salem/Woodburn/Mt. Angel. The population density wasn't quite high enough to achieve this in 2000 but it will only be a matter of time.

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My comment was directed at the local police chief earlier in the show. He was directly asked how many houses were in the search area and said " I don't know...nobody seems to know." They had several days to figure it out when it could have taken minutes. Somebody in some agency could have taken 5 minutes to do SOMETHING regardless of how "remote" Waldport is.

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Are you kidding? Where's your geographic data?

Lincoln county should have land records for all houses. You can do a simple computer query to find out how many houses are within a certain distance of  the search area in about 30 seconds.

If you want I can manually count the houses on Google Earth in 10 minutes or so.  Sounds like the law enforcement agencies involved are big on guns and small on brains...

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Please, please, please press your adult guests for straight answers when they are blatantly evasive or horribly unclear!!!  This show claims to have some connection to journalism doesn't it???  Sheesh...

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Wow, this has to be the worst segment I've ever heard on TOL...

Lenny Edwards and Tim McLaughlin and the most evasive, poorly-spoken, clueless guests I've heard on this program. There was nothing resembling a clear, sensible answer between them. This discussion achieved NOTHING and informed NO ONE!  Try again...

I wish I had a dollar for every "um," "uhhh" and verbal crutch I heard. I can't believe that these idiots are or were allowed to educate our children.

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