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  • Can You Be Too Drunk To Remember Smoking Crack?
    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been making headlines after admitting to using crack cocaine, stating that it happened "probably in one of my drunken…
  • Should Seattle City Elections Be Publicly Funded?
    The Seattle City Council is thinking about developing a publicly-funded approach to campaign finance. The Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission would…
  • Demonstrators in Seattle form a human chain around City Hall in support of a $15 minimum wage in April 2014.
    Confused By $15 Minimum Wage? We Break It Down
    Seattle starts phasing in a higher minimum wage on April 1 this year. The key term here is "phasing in." Everyone receiving the minimum wage won’t…
  • The writer Ursula K. Le Guin in 2012.
    Ursula K. Le Guin on writing and the women's movement
    “If you have a person who is both male and female, what’s the pronoun you use?”Ursula K. Le Guin posed that question in 1988 when she came in to the KUOW…
  • Bamboo, one of two elephants at Woodland Park Zoo, will be leaving with Chai.
    Do Zoos Really Help Animals In The Wild?
    Do we need zoos to promote conservation?Kathryn Gillespie, a lecturer and member of the University of Washington’s critical animal studies working group,…
  • Boeing’s Shared Services Group (SSG) is set to move to the southwest state by 2020.
    Interstate Battle For Boeing 777X Wing Production
    Ross Reynolds talks with Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy about the aerospace industry in the South Sound, and what makes it an appealing place to…
  • Exploring Cross-Cultural Adoption
    Russian President Vladimir Putin recently signed a law prohibiting US citizens from adopting Russian children. The US adopted 748 children from Russia in…
  • Conversation News Quiz!
    We know, we know. We obviously aren't mavericks when it comes to doing a listener news quiz on public radio, but we are jumping on the band wagon and…
  • Are You Voting?
    Eighty five percent of registered voters cast ballots in Washington state back in 2008, breaking the prior record for turnout that was set back in World…
  • Living In A White City
    Seattle is one of the whitest cities in the country according to the most recent census. But what does that mean? What's it like to live in such a white…
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