Weekday

It’s Friday — time to review the news with Joni Balter, Knute Berger and Erica C. Barnett. City Councilman Tim Burgess jumped into the Seattle mayor's race this week, Congress peered over the fiscal cliff and state officials got ready to implement Washington's new same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana laws. We'll wrap up these and other stories of the week with our panel and hear your take at 206.543.5869 or weekday@kuow.org.

It’s Friday — time to review the news with Joni Balter, Knute Berger and Erica C. Barnett. City Councilman Tim Burgess jumped into the Seattle mayor's race this week, Congress peered over the fiscal cliff and state officials got ready to implement Washington's new same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana laws. We'll wrap up these and other stories of the week with our panel and hear your take at 206.543.5869 or weekday@kuow.org.

It’s Friday — time to review the news with Joni Balter, Knute Berger and Erica C. Barnett. City Councilman Tim Burgess jumped into the Seattle mayor's race this week, Congress peered over the fiscal cliff and state officials got ready to implement Washington's new same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana laws. We'll wrap up these and other stories of the week with our panel and hear your take at 206.543.5869 or weekday@kuow.org.

It’s Friday — time to review the news with Joni Balter, Knute Berger and Erica C. Barnett. City Councilman Tim Burgess jumped into the Seattle mayor's race this week, Congress peered over the fiscal cliff and state officials got ready to implement Washington's new same-sex marriage and legalized marijuana laws. We'll wrap up these and other stories of the week with our panel and hear your take at 206.543.5869 or weekday@kuow.org.

The storm is over, but the recovery from Sandy will go on for months to come. This week the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said they'd seek more than $80 billion in federal aid to rebuild and protect against another devastating storm. Meanwhile, some residents displaced by the storm are struggling with whether rebuilding is worth the cost. We check in for an on-the-ground update.Also this hour: we hear about Myanmar's prospects for democratic reform from the University of Washington's Mary Callahan, we talk with a plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed this week challenging the US military's ban on women serving in combat, and Nick Bond joins us with a weekend weather forecast.

The storm is over, but the recovery from Sandy will go on for months to come. This week the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said they'd seek more than $80 billion in federal aid to rebuild and protect against another devastating storm. Meanwhile, some residents displaced by the storm are struggling with whether rebuilding is worth the cost. We check in for an on-the-ground update.Also this hour: we hear about Myanmar's prospects for democratic reform from the University of Washington's Mary Callahan, we talk with a plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed this week challenging the US military's ban on women serving in combat, and Nick Bond joins us with a weekend weather forecast.

The storm is over, but the recovery from Sandy will go on for months to come. This week the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said they'd seek more than $80 billion in federal aid to rebuild and protect against another devastating storm. Meanwhile, some residents displaced by the storm are struggling with whether rebuilding is worth the cost. We check in for an on-the-ground update.Also this hour: we hear about Myanmar's prospects for democratic reform from the University of Washington's Mary Callahan, we talk with a plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed this week challenging the US military's ban on women serving in combat, and Nick Bond joins us with a weekend weather forecast.

The storm is over, but the recovery from Sandy will go on for months to come. This week the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said they'd seek more than $80 billion in federal aid to rebuild and protect against another devastating storm. Meanwhile, some residents displaced by the storm are struggling with whether rebuilding is worth the cost. We check in for an on-the-ground update.Also this hour: we hear about Myanmar's prospects for democratic reform from the University of Washington's Mary Callahan, we talk with a plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed this week challenging the US military's ban on women serving in combat, and Nick Bond joins us with a weekend weather forecast.

The storm is over, but the recovery from Sandy will go on for months to come. This week the governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut said they'd seek more than $80 billion in federal aid to rebuild and protect against another devastating storm. Meanwhile, some residents displaced by the storm are struggling with whether rebuilding is worth the cost. We check in for an on-the-ground update.Also this hour: we hear about Myanmar's prospects for democratic reform from the University of Washington's Mary Callahan, we talk with a plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed this week challenging the US military's ban on women serving in combat, and Nick Bond joins us with a weekend weather forecast.

Puget Sound Energy owns and operates a coal-fired power plant out of Billings, Montana, that the Sierra Club calls "the dirtiest coal plant in the West." The Colstrip Plant meets EPA emission standards and PSE touts its green-energy portfolio, with plans to triple its renewable energy supply by 2020. How does coal fit into that equation? And with coal plants generating 42 percent of America's electricity, how much impact would closing one plant have? We take a look with PSE's Andy Wappler and Anne Hedges of the Montana Environmental Information Center.Also this hour: Should Congress and the President use the approaching fiscal cliff to reach a "grand bargain" and reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? We talk with State Senator Steve Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) and Michael Lind of the New America Foundation. Plus, we listen back to the career of voice actor Lucille Bliss and get a recommendation for a tasty Vietnamese banh mi sandwich from Sara Dickerman.

Puget Sound Energy owns and operates a coal-fired power plant out of Billings, Montana, that the Sierra Club calls "the dirtiest coal plant in the West." The Colstrip Plant meets EPA emission standards and PSE touts its green-energy portfolio, with plans to triple its renewable energy supply by 2020. How does coal fit into that equation? And with coal plants generating 42 percent of America's electricity, how much impact would closing one plant have? We take a look with PSE's Andy Wappler and Anne Hedges of the Montana Environmental Information Center.Also this hour: Should Congress and the President use the approaching fiscal cliff to reach a "grand bargain" and reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? We talk with State Senator Steve Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) and Michael Lind of the New America Foundation. Plus, we listen back to the career of voice actor Lucille Bliss and get a recommendation for a tasty Vietnamese banh mi sandwich from Sara Dickerman.

Puget Sound Energy owns and operates a coal-fired power plant out of Billings, Montana, that the Sierra Club calls "the dirtiest coal plant in the West." The Colstrip Plant meets EPA emission standards and PSE touts its green-energy portfolio, with plans to triple its renewable energy supply by 2020. How does coal fit into that equation? And with coal plants generating 42 percent of America's electricity, how much impact would closing one plant have? We take a look with PSE's Andy Wappler and Anne Hedges of the Montana Environmental Information Center.Also this hour: Should Congress and the President use the approaching fiscal cliff to reach a "grand bargain" and reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? We talk with State Senator Steve Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) and Michael Lind of the New America Foundation. Plus, we listen back to the career of voice actor Lucille Bliss and get a recommendation for a tasty Vietnamese banh mi sandwich from Sara Dickerman.

Puget Sound Energy owns and operates a coal-fired power plant out of Billings, Montana, that the Sierra Club calls "the dirtiest coal plant in the West." The Colstrip Plant meets EPA emission standards and PSE touts its green-energy portfolio, with plans to triple its renewable energy supply by 2020. How does coal fit into that equation? And with coal plants generating 42 percent of America's electricity, how much impact would closing one plant have? We take a look with PSE's Andy Wappler and Anne Hedges of the Montana Environmental Information Center.Also this hour: Should Congress and the President use the approaching fiscal cliff to reach a "grand bargain" and reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? We talk with State Senator Steve Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) and Michael Lind of the New America Foundation. Plus, we listen back to the career of voice actor Lucille Bliss and get a recommendation for a tasty Vietnamese banh mi sandwich from Sara Dickerman.

Puget Sound Energy owns and operates a coal-fired power plant out of Billings, Montana, that the Sierra Club calls "the dirtiest coal plant in the West." The Colstrip Plant meets EPA emission standards and PSE touts its green-energy portfolio, with plans to triple its renewable energy supply by 2020. How does coal fit into that equation? And with coal plants generating 42 percent of America's electricity, how much impact would closing one plant have? We take a look with PSE's Andy Wappler and Anne Hedges of the Montana Environmental Information Center.Also this hour: Should Congress and the President use the approaching fiscal cliff to reach a "grand bargain" and reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? We talk with State Senator Steve Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) and Michael Lind of the New America Foundation. Plus, we listen back to the career of voice actor Lucille Bliss and get a recommendation for a tasty Vietnamese banh mi sandwich from Sara Dickerman.

Up to one-third of working adults in the United States are independent contractors. Do you have what it takes to make it on your own? Freelancers Union founder Sara Horowitz joins us to talk about how independent workers are changing the national job landscape and what you need to know before joining the ranks of the self-employed.Also this hour: the US Supreme Court is expected to decide tomorrow whether it will wade into the same-sex marriage debate in the coming months. We check in with Harvard legal historian Michael Klarman. Plus, we look at the fight against "patent trolls" and Marcie Sillman talks with Rose Cano, artistic director of Seattle bilingual theater company eSe Teatro.