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Safety Problems Old And New At Anacortes Oil Refineries
The Shell Oil Co. refinery in Anacortes, Wash., sprang a leak last week. Shell quickly shut down the equipment that was boiling oil to make gasoline, but the shutdown led to a release of toxic gases.
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Seattle's Daemond Arrindell Changes Lives Through Poetry
Daemond Arrindell wants to change the world. Not through the ballot box or protest marches. Arrindell’s weapon is poetry. He uses his words to touch individual lives, particularly the lives of young...
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Many Wash. Districts Have Been Exaggerating Graduation Rates
In 2011, the Washington Association of School Administrators named Mary Alice Heuschel Superintendent of the Year. In a promotional video for the award, Heuschel described how she helped transform the...
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How To Escape From A North Korean Labor Camp
Kim Yong grew up as an orphan in North Korea. His orphanage was a mansion, filled with the sons and daughters of dead North Korean war heroes. Kim hoped to honor his father’s legacy through his fierce...
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Overheard In The Green Room: Ken Jenning's Kryptonite
In 2011, you were chosen as one of the two humans to be play against IBM's Watson supercomputer. What was it like playing against a robot?
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Seattle Police Chief Retires
Seattle Chief of Police John Diaz announced his retirement today.Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and Seattle Police Chief made the announcement Monday to reporters with thirty minutes' notice.
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Words We Love And Words We Hate
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Nothing, but other words are hilarious! Ross Reynolds talks with language columnist Ben Zimmer about words we love, words we hate and words that...
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Former Seattle Schools Official Silas Potter Pleads Guilty To Theft
After his re-arrest on Saturday, former Seattle Public Schools official Silas Potter pleaded guilty Monday to 36 counts of theft for directing $168,275 in school district funds to a dummy company he...
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Four Rowers Survive Boat Capsize In The Atlantic
Four men were attempting to set a world record by rowing across the Atlantic Ocean this weekend. Their plans were thwarted when their boat capsized. Seventy-two days of journey culminated in hours and...
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Seattle Immigrant Women Overcome Cultural Constraints To Exercise
Physical activity is good for the body and mind, though finding time to exercise can be a challenge. But for some people, time is not the only issue. Many Muslim women find that cultural constraints...
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Seattle Man Cured Of HIV: Five Years Later, Tired Of Still Being The Only One
Scientists are still trying to sort out whether a baby supposedly cured of HIV was truly infected in the first place. Until that's sorted out, the number of people known to have been cured of HIV is...
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What Happens In Washington If Student Loan Interest Rates Rise?
The interest rate on many student loans is scheduled to double on July 1, to 6.8 percent from 3.4 percent. That was expected to happen last year, but Congress voted to extend the lower rate. If the...
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Ask The Traffic Cop: Officer John Abraham
Are you ever driving down the street, see something happen in traffic and wonder, is that allowed? Ross Reynolds sits down with KUOW's favorite traffic cop, Officer John Abraham, and talks about the...
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Seattle Police Chief John Diaz Steps Down
Seattle’s police chief stepped down on Monday. John Diaz announced his retirement 33 years after starting with the Seattle Police Department – and one week after a pair of outside reviews criticized...
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SPD Chief Diaz Steps Aside
Seattle Police Chief John Diaz announced on Monday that he’s stepping down. Diaz was appointed chief by Mayor Mike McGinn in 2010 and served 33 years with the SPD. Assistant Chief Jim Pugel will lead...
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Keeping A Lid On The Cost Of Health Care
As the cost of health care continues to rise, what can patients do to help? Dr. John Santa is director of the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center. We talk with him about Choosing Wisely, a campaign...
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Making Peace At Home: A Mother And Daughter's Story
In the US, it’s no longer considered socially acceptable to spank your child. But parents may still be heard expressing a nostalgia for that period when it was easier to discipline a child, when a...
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Annette Spaulding-Convy's "Bonsai Nun"
As a former Dominican nun in the Roman Catholic Church, Annette Spaulding-Convy is intimately aware of the complex messages the institution sends about women's bodies. Her poem "Bonsai Nun" finds an...
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Weekday Archive: Taj Mahal And Steven Pinker
Our spring membership drive rolls along with two of our favorite interviews: two-time Grammy winning musician TajMahal joined us late last year to celebrate 40 years in music and a new retrospective...
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Canada, Culture And Commerce
Vancouver Sun political correspondent Vaughn Palmer brings us the latest news from Canada, Everett Herald film critic Robert Horton looks at what's happening at the movies, and Geekwire's Todd Bishop...
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