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What Is The Deal With Scroogled?
Microsoft has launched a new round of ads blasting Google for sharing user’s personal information if they are using Android software to run a smartphone or a tablet. Previously Microsoft ads attacked...
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Are Washington's DUI Laws Tough Enough?
Washington Governor Jay Inslee wants to crackdown on drunken drivers in the wake of some recent tragedies involving intoxicated drivers. Today, Ross Reynolds talks with New York University Langone...
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Senate Confirms Sally Jewel As Interior Secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed Sally Jewell, CEO of outdoor retailer Recreational Equipment Inc., as interior secretary.
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Seattle Inventor Finds Key to Solving Saxophone Discord
There’s an old joke among saxophone players: The instrument, they say, comes from the factory out of tune. Dr. Michael Brockman is a professor of saxophone at the University of Washington. He actually...
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Bringing Art To Narwhal Research In The Arctic
Two Seattle-based adventurers — one a scientist, the other an artist — are on an expedition to study and document narwhals in Arctic waters off the west coast of Greenland.
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Rallies For Immigration Reform From Seattle To DC
Supporters of immigration reform call the outside of the Federal Building in downtown Seattle their patio. That’s because they’ve gathered here so many times in the past decade to push for an overhaul...
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The Redemption Of General Butt Naked
One of the warlords who terrorized Liberia during the country’s 14-year civil war was a man who called himself “General Butt Naked." He ran a brigade of child soldiers – most of whom he’d kidnapped and...
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David Sheff Comes Clean On Addiction
Journalist and author David Sheff struggled to save his son Nic from addiction and he recounted his experience in the memoir "Beautiful Boy." In his new book "Clean," Sheff argues addiction is not a...
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Would A Budget By Any Other Name Not Smell As Sweet?
Governor Inslee released his budget proposal a couple weeks ago, and then came the Washington Senate budget. Yesterday the House released their budget and today Ross Reynolds talks with Representative...
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Your Take On The News
Coming up on Weekday at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, April 12It’s Friday — time to review the week’s news with Joni Balter, Knute Berger and Eli Sanders. Seattle Police Chief John Diaz announces he’ll retire...
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How Doctors Are Handling 'Death With Dignity'
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine looks at how one Seattle medical institution has managed the state’s 2009 Death With Dignity law. The report shows how rarely Washington state...
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Rethinking The Idea Of Money
Coming up on Speakers Forum on Thursday, April 18 at 8 p.m.In the book "Rethinking Money," economist Bernard Lietaer and journalist Jacqui Dunne trace the beginnings of our monetary system, including...
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Conversation News Quiz!
What is short and sweet and fun all over? This week's Conversation news quiz! Tune in and hear a listener play for the chance to be crowned the Conversationalist of the Week!
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This Week In Olympia With Austin Jenkins
Three budgets walk into a news cycle, but only one budget will leave. Ross Reynolds talks with Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins about the latest from our lawmakers in Olympia.
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Is The KOMO Sale An 'Oh No!' Sale?
Seattle TV and Radio is about to experience some big changes. Yesterday the Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it was buying Seattle-based Fisher Communications for about $373 million. Fisher owns...
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Who Needs A Ph.D. When You Can Get A "Mrs." Degree?
Recently, Princeton alum Susan Patton prompted a heated discussion when she urged women at the Ivy League school to find a husband before graduating. She argued that men regularly marry women who are...
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Ask King County Executive Dow Constantine
Coming up on Weekday at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, April 15King County Executive Dow Constantinetraveled to New York earlier this month to pitch pro basketball's return to Seattle. We’ll hear where things...
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A Conversation With Mudhoney's Mark Arm
Mark Arm and Steve Turner founded Mudhoney years before the national music press catapulted Seattle onto the national stage. Their 1988 debut single, “Touch Me I’m Sick,” was the first major hit for...
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Roast Penguin? Jason Anthony On Antarctic Cuisine
Coming up on Weekday at 9:00 a.m. on Monday, April 15What is there to eat in Antarctica? Not much, though you could try penguin. In 1897, stranded Captain Georges Lecointe said penguin tasted like...
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Who Will Drink The Cost Of Ending The Washington Brewer-Tax Exemption?
It’s that time of year when we talk about forecasts -- no, not the weather forecast, though we do have our fingers crossed for warmer weather. The Governor, the House and the Senate have all released...
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