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Dogs Most Effective Search Tool As Landslide Death Toll Mounts
Rescuers are employing high tech electronics to help locate buried victims in the Oso mudslide. But old fashioned tools have actually worked best according to local fire chief Travis Hots.“In the last...
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Salman Rushdie And The Heroism Of Ordinary People
It was Valentine’s Day 1989 when Salman Rushdie got a call from a BBC reporter. She asked him how it felt to be sentenced to death by the Ayatollah Khomeini. He thought, “I’m a dead man.”Starting at...
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Nicholson Baker's New Novel 'Traveling Sprinkler'
In his new book “Traveling Sprinkler,” novelist Nicholson Baker tells the story of a 55-year-old poet’s obsession with electronic dance music, Debussy, and his ex girlfriend who works as a local NPR...
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US Will Return To Historic Levels Of Inequality Says One Economist
Here in the Puget Sound region and across the country, the economy is making slow and steady progress in recovering from the Great Recession of 2008. But moving forward, many questions still remain. A...
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Langdon Cook On 'The Mushroom Hunters'
Ever wonder who heads into the woods to gather those gourmet wild mushrooms that adorn the plates in Seattle’s finest restaurants? Forager and author Langdon Cook introduces us to the motley crew that...
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All In The Family: Bringing Cannabis Business To Port Townsend
Port Townsend father-son duo, Martin Gay and Dakota Sandoval, eagerly anticipate the fate of their marijuana business as Washington State Liquor Board starts issuing licenses next month.Gay and...
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Harper Appointee Benched And Cross-Border Tax Break
Marcie Sillman talks with Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's attempt to fill a vacant seat on the Supreme Court of Canada and cross-border shoppers getting a...
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Representative Suzan DelBene Joins Mudslide Relief Efforts
Marcie Sillman checks in with U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene, who serves the 1st Congressional District, about helping on the scene of the Oso mudslide.
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Teju Cole On Being A Perpetual Insider And Outsider
Steve Scher talks with fiction writer Teju Cole about his new book, "Every Day Is for the Thief." Cole will be at the Elliot Bay Bookstore tonight at 7 p.m.
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Seattle Cab Drivers Sue Ridesharing Company Uber
Marcie Sillman talks with Dawn Gearhart, spokesperson for Teamsters Local 117, about why the Western Washington Taxi Cab Operators Association has filed a lawsuit against the app-based transportation...
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A Call For Landslide Insurance For Homeowners
Marcie Sillman talks with Scott Burns, a geologist and landslide expert at Portland State University, about how he hopes the tragedy in Oso will lead to landslide insurance for homeowners and better...
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Concern Over Landslide-Logging Connection Near Oso Is Decades Old
Saturday's deadly slide was the latest in a long string of landslides to hit the area known as the Hazel or Oso slide along the North Fork Stillaguamish River.State and tribal officials have known...
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Authorities: Mudslide Missing Number Drops To 90
Washington authorities on Wednesday reduced to 90 the number of people missing from a community wiped out by a mudslide, as the families and friends of those still unaccounted for begin to confront the...
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Mudslide Rescue Volunteers: ‘We’re Going In Whether You Let Us Or Not’
Bob DeYoung came to a prayer vigil in Darrington wearing thick suspenders that held up jeans covered in mud.“Sticks to everything,” he explained.You could see he had been working hard. He had been out...
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Fire Chief: 'We're Going To Exhaust All Options To Find Someone Alive'
Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots was not at the press conferences on Wednesday after he was urged to get some rest in the wake of the ongoing response to the fatal Oso...
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Remembering The 'Pioneer Spirit' Of Alaska's 9.2 Earthquake
Fifty years ago, a large earthquake centered near Anchorage, Alaska, set off a fatal chain of destruction that reached through Washington and all the way down into California.March 27, 1964 – Good...
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Diane Ravitch On The State Of The Public School
The popular narrative around public schools is that they’re failing and that teachers and administrators are to blame. Reformers argue for charter schools. They call for evaluating teachers based on...
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‘My Beloved World’ By Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor is the 111th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She’s also its first Hispanic and third female justice. In her memoir, “My Beloved World,” Sotomayor details her childhood struggle with...
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Exploring Seattle's Vices With Cabaret
Seattle has a nice reputation. We are squeaky clean, we compost and recycle, and rumor has it we have more people trained in CPR than most cities our size in America.But a new cabaret show at Seattle's...
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Two Truths And A Lie
RadioActive is committed to delivering accurate stories to our listeners. But for the first time, RadioActive hosts keep you in the dark with a fun game of Two Truths and a Lie. Two of these stories...
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