Is Social Anxiety Impacting Your Political Views?
Both state and federal lawmakers have been debating over how to approach immigration reform. Immigrants themselves tend to favor paths to citizenship and educational opportunities for their children....
View ArticleThe State Of The Union In Solving Climate Change
The United States doesn't currently have a plan for dealing with the problem of climate change. But President Obama is expected to bring it up in his State of the Union address tomorrow night. What is...
View ArticleTales From Single Or Stay-At-Home Dads
According to the most recent census, there are more than 1.7 million single fathers in the US and more than 175,000 stay-at-home dads, and their numbers are on the rise. David Hyde spoke to single and...
View ArticleReligion Through The Back Door
Karen Armstrong came to religion through the back door. She had tried coming through the front, joining a convent as a teenager. But the spiritual experiences her mentors expected her to have just fell...
View ArticleCall The Grammar Police!
Coming up on Weekday at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 12When it comes to proper usage, the Grammar Police work overtime. Have you ever corrected another person’s grammar? How did that go over?...
View ArticleChat Room: Grammys Awarded, Bushes Hacked, Soderbergh Out
Coming up on Weekday at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 12More than 28 million people tuned in to watch the Grammy Awards — how much do the Grammy's actually have to do with music? Bush family photos...
View ArticleGun Rights: The Issue That Switched From Left Wing To Right Wing
Back in the 1960s, it was urban radicals who fought for the right to bear arms, and it was largely white conservatives who fought for tighter gun control. How times have changed.The forgotten history...
View ArticleNavigating A Fragmented System
Recent shooting tragedies around the country have raised questions about our mental health system. One of those questions is: Where do you go when someone in your family has mental illness? This is a...
View ArticleArmy Keeps A Lid On Madigan PTSD Investigation
The Army says it won’t release the investigation into how Madigan Army Medical Center handled some soldiers' diagnoses for post-traumatic stress disorder. The denial comes one week after the Secretary...
View ArticlePoet Alice Derry On Mourning A Complicated Relationship
Mourning begins in a kind of thick non-seeing,only later clarified, gradually lightening,until we recognize what our lives must carry.So begins "The Planet Closest To Us," Alice Derry's frank and...
View ArticleFive Lessons For Seattle Bike Share Plan
The plan to create a bike sharing program in Seattle is clicking into a higher gear. Puget Sound Bike Share hopes to launch in 2014 in parts of the University District, Eastlake, Capitol Hill, South...
View ArticleWash. Gov. Inslee Sets Sights On ‘Defeating’ Climate Change
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he wants to defeat climate change. Rather than taxing carbon or pursuing a cap-and-trade system to restrict the emission of greenhouse gases, the Democratic state...
View ArticleCan We Still Afford Higher Ed?
Recent debate over the future of the state's pre-paid tuition program and the continually rising cost of college raises a larger question: Who is going to pay for a college education? It used to be...
View ArticleCanada, Culture And Commerce: Presidents On Film And NW Business News
Vancouver Sun political correspondent Vaughn Palmer brings us the latest from Canada. Film critic Robert Horton looks at presidents on the silver screen. Then, Michael Parks wraps up the region's...
View ArticleOlympics To Drop Wrestling, Northwest Wrestlers Shocked
This week the International Olympic Committee announced a plan to drop wrestling from the 2020 summer games. But there's some chance the drop could still be stopped. Ross Reynolds interviews former...
View ArticleWhat Effect Is The Shrinking Public Sector Having On The Washington State...
Nationally the private sector added 5 million jobs since a low point in June of 2009. But during that same time period the public sector cut 721,000 jobs. What effect is the shrinking public sector...
View ArticleBill To Compensate Innocent Who Spend Time Behind Bars
Yesterday in Olympia the House Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would compensate people who served time in prison for crimes they didn’t commit and were exonerated of. The exonerated people would...
View ArticleWhat Are Your Blindspots?
What are our hidden biases or blind spots, and how can they divert us from doing what we think is right? Ross Reynolds interviews University of Washington psychology professor Anthony Greenwald,...
View ArticleMarriage As A Path To US Residency: Not So Easy As In The Movies
Marry an American, get residency in the US: It's a myth many Americans still believe, promulgated by sitcoms and romantic comedies. But the true story is much more complicated. And it has left...
View ArticleGay Couples See New Hope For Immigration Benefits
If you want to marry someone from another country, and you’re a US citizen, chances are your spouse could also gain citizenship through marriage. That is, if the marriage is between a man and a woman....
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