Tomorrow night, Tuesday, Nov. 4, beginning at 6:30 p.m., Gambit Weekly will be liveblogging the election returns from the newsroom at WWL-TV, providing up-to-the-minute information about presidential, state and local races, along with Gambit political editor and WWL election analyst Clancy DuBos.

The station will begin its schedule of national cut-ins at 6:30, and at 8 p.m., when the polls close, WWL sister station WUPL will go live with reports and analysis of all the national, state, and local elections. We’ll be liveblogging along with them from the newsroom and the election set, and giving Gambit readers a picture of how Channel 4 puts it all together.

Oh, yes, and we’ll be taking your questions — serious and silly — and answering them on the blog as time permits. You can leave ‘em in the comments below. (We’ve already had our first query about Lee Zurik’s eyebrows, and he’s been a good sport about that in the past, but we’re hoping for some new material.)

So visit www.blogofneworleans.com on election night beginning at 6:30 p.m. for live online coverage of Election Night. Suggestions for drinking games are welcome.

Newsflash to Phoenix Recycling subscribers: start digging through your recyclables and pull out the cardboard. David McDonough of Phoenix sent the following in an email to subscribers:

Effective immediately, we can no longer accept cardboard with mixed paper on residential routes.One of the first signs of economic hardship in the recycling industry is tightening paper markets and falling commodity prices. The mill that buys our paper is now saying they cannot take any type of cardboard in our mixed paper. There is much more material than there is demand right now, so they can be picky. In better markets, they take what they can get — in worse markets, they tell us what they will take. We are trying to find other options so we can start taking cardboard with mixed paper again, as soon as possible.We apologize for the inconvenience and will work to correct this as soon as possible. 

Stephen O’Connor, director of business development at Phoenix, explains that with a lack of resources to sort through cardboard and mixed paper (as well as plastic and glass), cutting out cardboard is their only solution if consumers don’t want to see higher rates.

“Some thought we’d raise our cost, we resisted,” he says. “We went against everyone’s advice (to raise rates) when the price of oil went up.”

O’Connor says the company is grateful S-P Recycling Corp. still accepts their materials despite the setback.

Thanks to Maitri Venkat Ramani for alerting the recycling ’hoods.

Experts are predicting tomorrow’s election will mean the largest voter turnout in Louisiana history, but one observer says that the only thing that really matters is race. “Louisiana is a racist state,” said Raymond D. Strother, a Maryland-based political consultant and veteran of Louisiana politics. “Races there are always about race.”

That’s quite a statement coming from a guy who tried to get Jimmie “You Are My Sunshine” Davis, a good timey singer and a segregationist, elected to a third term as governor.

But is Strother right? Does all come down to skin color and there’s no need waste any shoe leather standing in line tomorrow?

What do you think?

Currently the top story at CNN.com…and I don’t believe it for a minute:

In honor and remembrance of James Booker before the 25th year since his passing, Jazz Lunatique will put on the 2 hour 2 part documentary from 1996

James Carroll Booker III: The Life, Music, and Mystique of the Bayou Maharajah - produced by David Kunian.

Wednesday 11/5/08 at midnight - 90.7 FM New Orleans - www.wwoz.org

Tell your friends. Tell your enemies and make them your friends. Tape or burn it all you want. It’s got rare recordings and interviews with everyone from Dave Bartholomew, Earl King, Ed Frank, Red Tyler to Scott Billington and Allen Toussaint. It will make you laugh, cry, and feel like a kid again. Better than CATS!

And stay tuned for Jonathan Freilich’s Freedom Double-0 Naked Klezmer Jazz Latin Boogaloo: The Radio Documentary! coming to you November 19-21, 2008