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First Earth Day Organizer Offers Advice On Handling Eco-Complacency
David Hyde talks with environmental activist Denis Hayes about some Earth Day advice for people who have become eco-complacent. Hayes served as the national coordinator to organize the first Earth Day...
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Obama Views Mudslide Scene, Mourns With Survivors
OSO, Wash. (AP) — Swooping over a terrain of great sadness and death, President Barack Obama took an aerial tour Tuesday of the place where more than three dozen people perished in a mudslide last...
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Seattle Mountaineering Company Shaken By Deaths On Everest
Last Friday’s avalanche on Mount Everest was especially devastating for one Seattle-based mountaineering company.Of the 16 Sherpa guides killed, five of them were employees of Alpine Ascents...
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King County Metro Prop 1 Failing In Early Returns
Initial returns tallied Tuesday night showed King County's Proposition 1 failing 55 percent to 45 percent. More returns will be posted by late Wednesday afternoon in the mail election.News analyst Joni...
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It's A Foregone Conclusion That You Are Quoting Shakespeare
To celebrate William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, Christopher Gaze, artistic director of Vancouver BC’s annual Bard on the Beach festival, takes a moment to remind you how the great playwright lives...
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Microsoft Faces Challenge Bringing Nokia Business Into The Fold
Microsoft says its purchase of Nokia's mobile phone business is complete. The deal is meant to help Microsoft deliver a Windows phone to challenge Apple and Google. However the company said it's only...
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Taliban Deal To Free Idaho Soldier Gets Another Look
Bill Radke talks with Northwest News Network reporter Jessica Robinson about a possible deal to free Idaho soldier Bowe Bergdahl. Army Sergeant Bergdahl has been held captive in Afghanistan by the...
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Bus Cuts Coming, Tunnel Digging Delayed, And Minimum Wage Talks Continue
Steve Scher recaps the news of the week with Crosscut's Knute Berger, news analyst Joni Balter, The Stranger's Eli Sanders and LiveWire host Luke Burbank.
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'A Man Called Destruction:' A Biography Of Musician Alex Chilton
Ross Reynolds talks with author Holly George-Warren about her new biography of musician Alex Chilton, "A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton, From Box Tops to Big Star to...
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Big Promises And Big Problems: Nate Silver Talks Big Data
Ross Reynolds talks with Nate Silver, editor in chief of the ESPN's FiveThirtyEight blog, about the promise and peril of using big data to make predictions.He is also the author of "The Signal and The...
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Risk Of Teens Reoffending Goes Up As Life Expectancy Drops
David Hyde talks with Dr. Alex Piquero, criminology professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, about his research that says teens who can't envision a future for themselves are likely to commit...
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Superintendent Dorn: Losing NCLB Waiver Is Hardest On Students
Marcie Sillman talks with Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn about Washington state losing its No Child Left Behind waiver and what that means for state public schools.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Has Both Parties Opposed
David Hyde talks with David Deese, political science professor at Boston College, about the politics behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
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Why Do You Love The Books You Love?
Think of your favorite book. What is it about that book that makes you love it? Is it the eloquence of the sentences? The adrenaline of the story? Characters that seem so real they could be friends? A...
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From Nigeria To Middle America: Optimism Spans Continents In Mengestu's Book
Steve Scher sits down with 2012 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and writer Dinaw Mengestu to talk about his newest book, "All Our Names."
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After Tragedy On Everest, A Question Of How To Help Sherpa
Marcie Sillman speaks with Sherpa senior guide Lakpa Rita Sherpa about the avalanche that killed five of his men on Mount Everest last Friday. Lakpa is also the leader of an expedition from Alpine...
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Turning The Tacoma Dome Into Public Art
Marcie Sillman checks in with Tacoma Arts Administrator Amy McBride about the city's endeavor to turn the Tacoma Dome into a large flower designed by Andy Warhol.
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Washington Loses No Child Left Behind Waiver: Will It Be The First Of Many?
Marcie Sillman talks with Alyson Klein, Education Week reporter, about what Washington losing its No Child Left Behind waiver means for federal education policy.
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What Now For School Districts After Federal Waiver Loss?
School districts across Washington are examining how they’ll be affected by the state’s loss of its No Child Left Behind waiver and resulting loss of flexibility over how they spend $38 million in...
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University Of Washington's Secret Society Of Undocumented 'Dreamers'
There’s no special handshake. No code word. But for one secret group on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, identification papers – or, rather, a lack thereof – are a common...
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