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Is There Such A Thing As A Good Death?
When Katy Butler’s father had a major stroke the family had a lot of medical options, except the one they most wanted: a humane and timely death. David Hyde speaks with Katy Butler about her new book,...
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Tic Talk: A Young Boy Unloads His Thoughts About Living With Tourette Syndrome
Spencer is a normal nine-year-old boy, except for one thing: he has Tourette syndrome. His mother and father, Hayley and Richard, have been searching desperately for answers as his twitching and...
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The Interfaith Amigos On Violence
Imam Jamal Rahman, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Pastor Don Mackenzie came together just after the Iraq War began. They wanted to find a way to discuss politics and faith and to use their religious convictions...
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Seattle Police Get High Marks From White, Asian Residents; But Panned By...
Three out of four Seattle residents think the Seattle Police do a good job keeping the public safe. But the police get much worse reviews from the city’s African-American and Latino communities....
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The Future Of Food With Vandana Shiva
What is the future of food? How can it sustain us? Vandana Shiva is an environmental and anti-globalization activist. Throughout her career, she’s fought for changes in agriculture practices, among...
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Seattle Is The Wild West Of Game Design
One reason the Puget Sound region stayed stronger than some surrounding areas during the economic downturn is because of its tech industry. A particular bright spot is the computer gaming and...
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Makah Filmmaker Fights Stereotypes One Story At A Time
Sandy Osawa is a local filmmaker and a member of the Makah Tribe. She and her husband, Yasu Osawa, have been creating documentaries for four decades. They have produced more than 65 videos, including...
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Innovation To The Rescue With Ramez Naam
With so many global challenges — climate change, overpopulation, natural-resource depletion — Ramez Naam argues that the only solution is innovation. Naam is a computer scientist who spent a decade at...
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After 33 Years, A Chance For Diplomacy With Iran?
It has been 33 years since the United States and Iran had diplomatic relations. Now, after an exchange of letters between President Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, there is new hope for...
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Washington's Job Recovery In Numbers
This week, KUOW has been taking a deeper look at the jobs recovery in Washington state in our series, The Big Reset. In this segment, we're talking numbers: unemployment, wages, industry trends. And...
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Jonathan Lethem's "Dissident Gardens"
Jonathan Lethem is one of America’s finest novelists. His critically acclaimed books include "Motherless Brooklyn," which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, "Fortress of Solitude"...
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Public Safety, Pope's Call For Balance, And Other Stories Of The Week
It’s Friday — time to talk over the week’s news with Joni Balter of the Seattle Times, Crosscut's Knute Berger and Eli Sanders of The Stranger. A shooting at the Navy Yard in DC and a fatal stabbing in...
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Businesses Adjust To Seattle's Paid Sick Leave Law
Last September, Seattle began requiring employers with five or more employees to provide paid sick leave. The requirement was controversial. Some businesses feared it would affect their bottom lines....
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Nooksack Members March In Seattle To Protest Possible Disenrollment
A group gathered in downtown Seattle on Friday to protest the potential disenrollment of hundreds of Nooksack members from their tribe. If it goes forward, it would likely be the largest tribal...
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Anacortes: One Town Debates Its Future
From Anacortes, Wash., you get the classic, gorgeous views of the San Juan Islands. But tourists mostly breeze by this city, thinking of it as just the gateway to greater places. Anacortes does have...
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Washington Billionaires Staying Out Of State Politics This Year
Nine men and one woman from Washington state made this year's list of American billionaires, recently updated by Forbes magazine.The group of 10 had an oversized influence on Washington state politics...
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Sounds Of The Day, 9.16.13 - 9.20.13
Each day on The Record we play the sound ofyourday. Listeners record 30 seconds of a sound they find interesting, write a short story and send it to The Record.Monday, September 16
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Poet Kelly Davio And The Body As Canvas
What can you tell about people based on what they've chosen to have inked on their body? Poet Kelly Davio takes that question in a provocative direction in "One in Four of Us Is Marked" from her new...
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Grocery Store Workers Vote On Strike Authorization
Grocery workers at QFC, Albertsons, Safeway and Fred Meyer have been in contract negotiations since March. Workers take issue with the grocery stores' current contract proposals: their lack of health...
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Chimp-Free Labs Bad News For Hepatitis C Research
The National Institutes of Health announced earlier this summer that it will reduce the number of chimpanzees used in scientific research and the Fish and Wildlife Service is considering classifying...
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