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What caused Amtrak Cascades 501 from Seattle to Portland to crash on its first trip along a new, faster route? Who wins and loses with the passage of the new Republican tax plan? Why is Washington's Attorney General suing Value Village? And where are people going to eat turkey sandwiches now that Bakeman's Restaurant is closing?

Holidays often evoke family traditions and food memories. So we asked Leslie Coaston and Laurie Minzel, the former owners of the Kingfish Café, about theirs. The sisters' Kingfish Café was a favorite fixture in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood before it closed in 2015. And it all started out as a dream.

Which airline you choose can help cut back on the damage your air travel does to the climate, according to a new study .

The winter solstice was this morning at 8:28 a.m. – if you’re reading this, you’re through the darkest point of the year. But we know it may not feel like it. What to do to beat the winter blues in Seattle? Host Marcie Sillman spoke to some experts to help us answer that question.

For the past eleven years the crew of Town Hall Seattle’s "Short Stories Live" series has presented a celebration of storytelling they call "A Rogue’s Christmas." Curator Jean Sherrard chooses seasonally-appropriate readings. It’s always a festive, thought-provoking and slightly devious gathering — just the thing to keep Christmas weird in Seattle.

Bill Radke talks to author Raj Patel about why we should think differently about low cost food and products. He explains that often those cheap prices come at the cost of the environment and fair labor practices. Patel co-authored the book "A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things ."

Doesn't it feel great when you get a great deal on something you really want? Well, maybe that sweet discount isn't always a good idea. And we're reported on the white supremacist movement here in the Northwest before, but today we'll talk with a reporter who went undercover and pretended to be part of Seattle's white supremacist movement.

If you find yourself checking your phone — a lot — or feeling phantom vibrations, there’s a good reason. Big technology companies (Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook to name a few) want your attention. They want to know what you’re thinking about, what you’re doing, and what you’re likely to do next.

Seattle has 1,100 old brick buildings that are especially vulnerable to collapsing in a big earthquake. Few have been retrofitted to withstand a major seismic event. Now researchers at the University of British Columbia say they’ve come up with a cheap, fast way to reinforce such buildings: spray them with bendable concrete.

Bill Radke talks to Casey Coombs, reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal , about Amazon's rapid growth over the last decade and what the company's playbook is for getting cities to offer incentives and deals to open fulfillment and data centers in their region. Coombs' reporting is a part of a series The Business Journals' have published called " The Amazon Effect: How taxpayers are funding the disruption of the U.S. economy. "

A family of four now needs annual income of nearly $76,000 just for basics to live in Seattle – up $30,000 from 2006. That’s according to researchers at the University of Washington School of Social Work.

Taxpayers have spent $1.2 billion to help Amazon thrive. The Puget Sound Business Journal has been working to uncover the Amazon playbook. We’ll take a look at it this hour. For the first time in 31 years, the U.S. Men's National Soccer team will not go to the World Cup. Shockingly, they got knocked out last night and we have a Seattle Sounders player to thank for it. Will President Trump dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada? Canada's Prime Minister Justin

Bill Radke speaks with Steven Agen, Seattle editor of Prost Amerika and host of the podcast Radio Cascadia , about the causes and fall out of the U.S. Men's National Soccer team failing to make it into the World Cup in Russia in 2018.

Regional politicians have been assembling a multi-county strategy to keep Amazon’s growth here. The company’s announcement last month that it will pick a second headquarters has sent cities scurrying to meet an October 19 deadline.

Hundreds of old brick buildings in Seattle are at risk of collapsing during a major earthquake – that’s clear. Also clear: These structures are often in neighborhoods with high risk for displacement – affecting people of color and low-income households.