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Summary: The Record brings listeners the analysts and newsmakers who can best tell the story as it’s developing around the Puget Sound region and beyond. Produced by KUOW, Seattle’s public radio station.
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On April 4, 1968, Gary Heyde had just arrived for a conference at Kentucky State College. He and more than 500 students from every major black university waited in line to register. Heyde happened to be the only white student there. No more than 20 minutes had passed when a girl came running into the lobby where conference-goers waited to register. “They’ve killed Martin,” she screamed. At first, the room was cloaked in complete and total silence. Then chaos ensued.
Bill Radke talks to historian, author and former This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell about America's troubled history and how it can better help us understand today.
Seattle’s KOMO and other local affiliates were swept up in controversy after they were required to read a script written by the conservative Sinclair Media Group, which owns 200 local stations across the country. This Deadspin video captured the eerie repetition.
There’s been an outcry in the city over the limited amount of parking developers are required to provide as dense apartment buildings rise. Now the city will allow residences to be built without any parking at all. How hard should it be to park a car in Seattle?
If someone you love wants to hurt themselves, what can you do? If the underlying cause is mental illness, one option is to have them involuntarily committed for psychiatric treatment. But if the underlying cause is addiction, that was not an option until the passage of Ricky's Law in 2016. Ricky Garcia and Lauren Davis worked with state lawmakers to pass a bill that would let someone in Washington state involuntarily commit an addict who is found to be a danger to him or herself. Bill Radke
In the early 2000s ten Russian nationals were living normal lives in the United States. They went to school, got jobs, and tried to infiltrate the inner circles of U.S. policymakers and businesses to send information back to Russia.
Your views on politics, your understanding of history, your personal identity: You feel pretty solid about them, right? But what if you didn't?
In 1890, the Sherman Act was passed. Its purpose was to preserve a competitive marketplace against potential consumer abuses. But the law isn't supposed to punish "innocent monopoly," or monopoly achieved by merit alone. So the question is: how innocent is Amazon’s monopoly?
What can you do if someone you love is addicted to a drug? If reasoning, pleading, and staging an intervention fail? In Washington state, soon you'll have a new option. It's called Ricky's Law. We spoke to the woman pushing for that legislation in 2016; she's back to tell us what's changed since the law passed.
Bill Radke talks to Melanie McFarland, TV critic at Salon about the new reboot of Roseanne and what it says about America today.
Bill Radke talks to Naomi Tomky, Seattle food writer about a dish that she thinks is a strong contender to be Seattle's 'signature dish.' Hint: there is seafood involved. No, not geoduck. Seattle TV critic Melanie McFarland joins the conversation.
If you’ve rented a new apartment in Seattle in the last year, chances are that you ran into the first-in-time law. It required landlords to rent to the first qualified applicant. When enacted, the law was touted as a first in the nation attempt to protect tenants’ rights. Landlords argued that it overrode their property rights – and yesterday, a judge agreed.
There’s a line in “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” by Maria Semple, that triggers pained recognition among locals. “The drivers here are horrible,” she begins. “They’re the slowest drivers you ever saw.”
If you follow the news, you might get the impression that things are pretty bad. Not just bad – "Why bother?" bad. "Throw your hands up" bad. "I'm going to eat this large bag of Sour Patch Kids in one sitting because we're all doomed anyway" bad.
Seattle real estate is hot, and getting hotter. One thing that might not be helping? Rent-bidding. It allows an apartment to be rented by the highest bidder. But does that drive up prices? KUOW's Paige Browning explains why the city is considering a ban.