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Health Officials Take A Shot At Gun Safety With Discounted Safes
In the quest to improve gun safety, public health officials are borrowing a practice that’s common in car sales — talking up safety features. Now when people shop for guns, they’ll be encouraged to...
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Looking Back: Thanksgiving Flood Sinks Old I-90 Bridge
The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge that connected Seattle to Mercer Island sank to the bottom of Lake Washington 23 years ago this weekend.
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Is Microsoft Beating Google At Retail?
David Hyde talks with Washington Post reporter Lydia DePillis about why internet giants are venturing into traditional brick and mortar.
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Sherman Alexie On Poetry, Booksellers And Kobe
Steve Scher talks with novelist and poet Sherman Alexie about the publication of "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" 20 years ago, the power of indie booksellers and Kobe Bryant's new...
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SeaTac Minimum Wage Earners: The Exception Or The Rule?
Steve Scher asks Quoctrung Bui of NPR's Planet Money how SeaTac's (impending) $15 minimum wage fits in among national minimum wage trends.
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Fox News And Rupert Murdoch's Other Legacies
David Hyde speaks with NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik about his book “Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires.”
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What One Medical Geneticist Learned From 23andMe
David Hyde talks with medical geneticist Marshall Horwitz about his experience as a customer of 23andMe, a private company that sells DNA analysis kits.
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How To Cook A Turkey Safely (It's Harder Than You Think)
Marcie Sillman talks with Phil Wyman, a restaurant inspector for King County Public Health, about how to properly cook a turkey to avoid poisoning your loved ones.
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22 Contenders Vie To Become State's First Charter Schools
A military school for at-risk youth.A high school that uses sports to teach life lessons.A school focused on special education.These are three of the 22 proposals for Washington state’s first charter...
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As $15 Minimum Wage Passes In SeaTac, Labor Looks To Seattle
Three weeks after Election Day, supporters of a measure to increase the minimum hourly wage to $15 in SeaTac celebrated their victory. With the last batch of votes counted, King County declared the...
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Seattle Police Say It’s OK To Stop Crime – But Be Safe
Seattle Police are applauding the efforts of three bus riders who stopped a man robbing fellow passengers at gunpoint.
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Cracking The Code: Encouraging Girls, Women To Pursue Jobs In Tech
It’s summertime in Seattle, and deep inside a basement classroom of the Paul Allen computer science building at the University of Washington, Justin Bieber is being deconstructed.
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How KUOW Staff Does Thanksgiving
Asked what traditions made their Thanksgiving every year, KUOW staffers came forth with both classic and quirky practices. Here’s a selection!Morgen Asher, membershipRuby de Luna, reporterEvery year we...
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Apple Cup 2013: Post-Season On The Line For Huskies And Cougars
Marcie Sillman talks with Art Thiel from Sports Press Northwest about Friday's Apple Cup between the University of Washington Huskies and Washington State Cougars.
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Should Schools Be Without Sports?
David Hyde talks with "Friday Night Lights" author Buzz Bissinger about shrinking the behemoth that is college sports.
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What Will Univ. of Wash. Law Do With $56 Million Gift?
Marcie Sillman talks with University of Washington Law School Dean Kelley Testy about how the school will spend the generous $56 million gift from Jack MacDonald.
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Press Decries New Limits On Exposure To Obama
David Hyde talks with Kenny Irby of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies about a confrontation between national media and the White House over a policy that shuts photographers out of some...
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Labels On Your Turkey And How To Not Mess Up The Gravy
Marcie Sillman talks with food writer Sara Dickerman about making gravy and how to work with the labels on your turkey.
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Michelle Alexander On How Incarceration Is "The New Jim Crow"
Ross Reynolds talks with Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", about the US criminal justice system and racial control.
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Two Worlds, One Country: China’s Urban-Rural Split
Ross Reynolds talks with ContextChina founder Kristi Heim about the deep divide between China's urban and rural populations.
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