Happily Ever After: Couple Reflects On Life After DOMA
Otts Bolisay, who had spent more than half his life in the US on various immigration visas, was approaching the end of the line.
View ArticleMarathoner Bill Iffrig Remembers When The Bomb Went Off
Bill Iffrig was 15 feet from finishing the Boston Marathon in April when the first bomb went off.
View ArticlePulled From The Archives: Race, The Cosmos, And Seattle Music
As the year winds down, The Record looks back at some of our favorite KUOW stories from 2013 and beyond.
View ArticleTree Sitters Face Off With Professors Over Logging Plan
Last year, the US Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs in Oregon, to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products.
View ArticleA Welder Reflects: ‘I’m A Different Person Than I Was. I Have A Trade.'
When Shannon Kelley started a free worker retraining program last summer, he was 43 years old and had been laid off for five years.
View ArticleFire Burns Historic Seattle Building Where Wah Mee Massacre Took Place
Djin Kwie Liem estimates he lost 20,000 fish.“Goldfish, koi, tropical fish,” he specified.
View Article‘Making Feminist And Queer Movements More Inclusive’ With Julia Serano
Coming up on Speakers Forum, January 2 at 9:00 p.m.Julia Serano has challenged exclusion in the feminist and queer movements for years. As an activist and trans woman, Serano was shocked to see some...
View ArticleThe Year In Review: Headliners And Non-Stories That Made Headlines
The presents are unwrapped, the eggnog is gone: Let’s start packing away the news stories that dominated the year. We'll discuss the year that was with Crosscut's Knute Berger, news analyst Joni Balter...
View ArticlePulled From The Archives: Evolution, Science, And Black In Seattle
As the year winds down, The Record looks back at some of our favorite KUOW stories from 2013.
View ArticleNancy Pearl’s Six Great Books Of 2013
Steve Scher gets Nancy Pearl's top picks of the year including “Americanah” and “The Women Who Lost Her Soul” for fiction; “Five Days At Memorial” and “Lawrence in Arabia” for nonfiction; and “The...
View ArticleRaising The Minimum Wage: Why States Are Starting To Take Action
Marcie Sillman talks with Jack Temple, a National Employment Law Project policy analyst, about the movement to raise the minimum wage and why states are starting to take action.
View ArticleDelBene Calls For Extension Of Long-Term Unemployment Benefits
Steve Scher checks in with Representative Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., about her plans to push for the extension of long-term unemployment benefits once Congress is back in session.
View ArticleColorado Sees First Legal Recreational Pot Sales
Marcie Sillman hears from Colorado Public Radio reporter Ben Markus about the world's first recreational marijuana sales that happened yesterday in Colorado.
View ArticleBest Recycling Advice: Don't Agonize Over It
Northwest denizens are known to take their recycling responsibilities seriously. But it can be confusing to keep on top of all the rules. Tom Watson from the King County Recycling and Environmental...
View ArticleNew Research Suggests Texting Much Worse Than Talking While Driving
Steve Scher talks with Dr. Charlie Klauer, research scientist at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, about new research on distracted driving.
View ArticleThe Fundamentals Of The Food Lover's Cleanse
Marcie Sillman talks with chef Sara Dickerman about the food lover's cleanse.
View ArticleWhy Ridwan, 16, Pretended He Was Allergic to Pork
"I walked up to them and they were playing basketball, doing their normal stuff like we usually do. And I told them that I wanted to talk to them."That was the day that 16-year-old Ridwan Abdirahman...
View ArticleTrim And Roll: Tour Of State's Only Permitted Medical Marijuana Grow
At Solstice, a nondescript warehouse in Seattle’s Sodo neighborhood, four people in white lab coats sit at tables in a brightly lit room.
View ArticleJobless In Seattle: Researcher Struggles To Get Back In The Market
More than 24,000 Washington residents lost their federal unemployment benefits late last month. Congress let expire an emergency federal jobless program that was created in 2008 during the great...
View ArticleFeds: Crude Oil Headed For Northwest Poses ‘Significant Risk’
An alert, issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday said that the crude oil coming out of the Bakken formation of North Dakota poses a “significant risk” because it is more flammable...
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