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State Sen. Litzow Says Legislature Unlikely To Act On Education Spending This...
David Hyde talks with the chair of Washington's Senate Education Committee, Senator Steve Litzow, about how the legislature will respond to the state supreme court's warning that education spending is...
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Green Is Still The Only Color That Matters In TV
David Hyde talks with Robert Thompson, Director of the Bleier Center for Television & Popular Culture Trustee at Syracuse University about racial diversity on television. From The Cosby Show to In...
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The History Of Revenge Politics
David Hyde gets some historical perspective on revenge politics from Kenneth C. Davis, historian and author of "Don't Know Much About History," in light of the New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's...
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15 Now: Kshama Sawant's New Minimum Wage Campaign
Ross Reynolds checks in with City Council member and Socialist Kshama Sawant on her newest effort to bring a $15 minimum wage to Seattle.
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Nancy Pearl Can't Wait For These Up Coming Books
Nancy Pearl is looking forward to reading at least three books coming out in 2014. Of course, this is only the start of her 2014 reading list. In fiction, the popular Jo Walton has another science...
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Why Immigrant Deportations Dropped 30 Percent In Northwest
Deportations of unauthorized immigrants in Washington and Oregon dropped 32 percent from 2012 to 2013, according to data from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Yet, people on both...
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Supreme Court To State: Figure Out Education Funding By April
The Washington state Supreme Court has found that state lawmakers have once again failed to make significant progress toward fully funding basic education, and ordered the Legislature to submit a K-12...
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Gary Shteyngart: From The Soviet Union To US Novelist
Ross Reynolds interviews author Gary Shteyngart about his new memoir: a story of growing up in the Soviet Union, moving to the US as a child and becoming a novelist. It’s called “Little Failure.”
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray On Police Reform, Minimum Wage, And The Seahawks
Marcie Sillman sits down with new Seattle's Mayor Ed Murray to talk about a range of issues currently facing the city.
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Will State Lawmakers Pass A Big Transportation Package In 2014?
Marcie Sillman talks with KUOW's Austin Jenkins about the latest news from Olympia, where Washington's legislative session starts Monday.
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University Book Store Challenged On Own Turf By Amazon
Online retail juggernaut Amazon ruffled a few feathers on the University of Washington campus last week by setting up a booth to promote its Amazon Student program – just 20 feet away from the...
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Gadgets And Business At The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show
Ross Reynolds and Todd Bishop of GeekWire discuss the future of technology after the Consumer Electronics Show.
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Sustainability Guru Talks Local Eating
Ross Reynolds talks with Vicki Robin about her latest book, "Blessing the Hand That Feeds Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth.” In it, she writes...
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What Is Causing The Conflict In Iraq's Anbar Province?
Marcie Sillman discusses the rise of violence in Iraq with Dan Murphy, Middle East correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.
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Seattle Sends A New Face To Olympia – Brady Walkinshaw, 29
When Brady Walkinshaw was a young child growing up in rural Whatcom County, his parents noticed he had a particular affinity for politics.By the age of 4 or 5, “I have vivid memories of him organizing...
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Few Railcars Carrying Flammable Oil Get Inspected
As we researched a recent story about train shipments of oil, we asked Washington and Oregon officials: How many of the trains coming through the Northwest are inspected?
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Exploring Seattle’s Vast Underground Public Art Collection
Seattle's got art. A lot of it. You've probably seen at least some of the city's vast public art holdings: sculptures in public library branches, decorative paving tiles on the sidewalks, the giant...
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How Seattle's Bid For Faster, Cheaper Internet Fell Apart
Network engineer Lee Kirk was working for Comcast when a friend of his tried to hire him away to Gigabit Squared Seattle for a partnership between the company and the city to improve Internet service...
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Businesses Worry About Three More Years Of Broadway Construction
For most of us, years of light rail construction on Broadway has been a traffic headache. But some small business owners along Capitol Hill's main street worry that another three years of construction...
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Boeing 787 Dreamliner Battery Smokes – Again
Japan Airlines has yet again grounded one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets after the plane's lithium ion battery started smoking.
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