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Chasing China's Doomsday Cult
Almighty God vs. the Red Dragon: It sounds like a fantasy action film, but it is in fact a real and disturbing struggle in China.The most vivid case involves a group of people who beat a stranger to...
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Ahoy-Hoy! Week In Review Live From South Lake Union
KUOW's Bill Radke reviews the week's news in front of a live audience at from the Center for Wooden Boats on the shores of Lake Union with Joni Balter, Knute Berger, Sherman Alexie and Luke Burbank.The...
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Unraveling The Past, Present And Future Of SLU, Seattle
With our toes dangling in the water, and seaplanes flying overhead, KUOW’s The Record comes to you live from the Center for Wooden Boats on South Lake Union.Today, we immerse ourselves in the...
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What's On The Bottom Of Lake Washington? Planes, Trains And …
What’s on the bottom of Lake Washington? Listener Merry McCreery wanted to know.For KUOW Public Radio’s Local Wonder project, I embarked on a strange journey that took me to the heart of this vast lake...
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Senator Murray Focused On Countering Hobby Lobby Ruling
Free contraceptive coverage is mandated by the Affordable Care Act.But in the landmark Hobby Lobby decision last June, the Supreme Court ruled that closely held corporations are exempt from the law if...
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No Criminal Charges In Deadly Tesoro Refinery Explosion
The U.S. Department of Justice has closed its four-year criminal investigation into whether environmental and worker safety laws were broken leading up to the fatal Tesoro refinery blast.
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Ads Reflect Culture, Whether We Like It Or Not
Jeannie Yandel talks with Jean Kilbourne, creator of the film series, "Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image Of Women," about Nordstrom's decision to include disabled models and what that tells us...
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Ferguson Economics: 'Suburbs Are The New Epicenter Of Poverty In America'
Ross Reynolds talks to Jon Talton, economics columnist for the Seattle Times and founder of the blog, Rogue Columnist, about the economic landscape of Ferguson, Missouri, and how it effects racial...
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A Conversation With Striking Amazon Workers In Germany
Ross Reynolds visited some of the workers who have participated in the strikes at Amazon fulfillment centers in Germany. The country is the second biggest market for the Seattle-based online retailer....
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Local Black Teens On Ferguson: 'It's Hard To Talk To People Who Don't Care'
Jeannie Yandel speaks with Devan Rogers and Yaninna Sharpley-Travis, two members of Youth Undoing Institutional Racism, about how they interpret the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in...
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In Seattle, The Summer Camp Theme Is Middle East Peace
Marcie Sillman speaks with SafaaElhaji and Daniel Oron, two organizers of the Middle East Peace Camp, which for 12 years has brought together Jewish and Arab children to educate them about conflict...
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Former Seattle Police Chief Takes Job As County Undersheriff
King County Sheriff John Urquhart has chosen his new chief deputy: Jim Pugel, the former interim Seattle police chief.
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A Book Pick To Get You As Obsessed With Ants As Sherman Alexie
Arwen Nicks gets book recommendations from authors Sherman Alexie and Jess Walter.Alexie has recently become an unofficial ant expert after reading Mark W. Moffett's "Adventures Among Ants," saying...
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How Do Police Departments End Up With Military Equipment?
Ross Reynolds talks with Al Jazeera America correspondent Sebastian Walker about why police departments in the United States are acquiring military equipment.
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Keeping Scarecrow Alive: The Continued Value Of Video Stores
Marcie Sillman talks to professor Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University, about the rise and fall of video stores and what their value...
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Seattle Arts Institutions Host Rare Sale Of Owl Headpieces And 'Figaro'...
Ross Reynolds discusses the once-a-decade sale last weekend in which the Seattle Opera, TeatroZinZanni, Village Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre and the Pacific Northwest Ballet gave the public a rare...
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Why Invest Millions In Companies That Are Just Beginning?
Jeannie Yandel speaks with entrepreneur and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer about what investors look for when scoping out new projects.Startup accelerator TechStars just started its fifth installment...
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MAP: Why C-Section Rates Vary Widely In Washington State
It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday at Valley Hospital and Medical Center in Spokane, and Dr. Nathan Meltzer has already had a very long day.He has one mother in labor. She’s been there for more than 12 hours.
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Labor Intensive: Letting Women Push Longer To Avoid C-Sections
Public health officials across the U.S. say the number of cesarean sections being performed has gotten way out of hand. It's a life-saving surgery for complicated births, but today nearly a third of...
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How Seattle's Scarecrow Video Is Like A Kung Fu Movie
Video stores are dead, they say.Then how – and WHY – did the Seattle video store Scarecrow Video just raise $100,000 in a Kickstarter campaign?
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