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Jeannie Yandel talks to Gary Grimstad, local accountant and part time lecturer in the University of Washington Foster School of Business about how the new GOP tax plan will impact Washington residents.

We're learning more about how an Amtrak train derailed onto I-5 near DuPont on Monday. Guest host Jeannie Yandel talks with KUOW's John Ryan and a former federal railroad safety investigator about what happened, and what questions remain.

We'll get an update from KUOW's Austin Jenkins at the scene of this morning's Amtrak train derailment south of Tacoma. The Amtrak Cascades train was traveling from Seattle to Portland when it spilled from an overpass onto Interstate 5, killing at least three people.

“Well. That was a, uh … let me say it this way, a tremendous showing by the Rams.”

Ross Reynolds talks to Zaki Hamid, a program director for Humanities Washington , about why he calls Seattle home and what has kept him here. And we take calls from listeners who share their stories of how they make it work in the changing region.

Bill Radke talks to Ed Barry, the Toll Division Director with the Washington State Department of Transportation, about a new report (PDF) that recommends raising the price of the top toll on Interstate 405 past $10. It was one of a series of recommendations to keep traffic flowing on the busy corridor. WSDOT has also conducted a study analyzing the effectiveness of I-405 tolling as the population in the region continues to grow.

Essayist Elissa Washuta spent last summer in the Fremont Bridge. The old control room was turned into an office, which allowed her to sit over the water and write. Elissa is descended from the Cowlitz and Cascade people. The longer she looked at the shipping canal, the less she could separate it from the displacement of the Duwamish people in service of progress and growth. Seattle is in a new wave of growth, with similar implications for those who were here before, including the Coast Salish

Bill Radke talks with Jen Petersen and Adra Boo about their respective decisions to leave Seattle (and the United States) and stay in the Puget Sound region. They reflect on what's changed and what hasn't and whether Seattle is living up to its progressive ideals.

Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., Charlie Rose, and others were swiftly fired after allegations against them broke. But Roy Moore came within 1.5 percent of being elected to the U.S. Senate. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is still on the bench. And Donald Trump is still in the White House, as was Bill Clinton following his own transgressions. When it comes to claims of sexual misconduct, why are media figures being held to a higher standard than public officials?

Deep red Alabama just elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate. Are Republicans in trouble? We'll ask Washington State Republican Party chairman Susan Hutchison and NPR's Scott Detrow.

Bill Radke talks to Laura Kipnis, author of the book "Unwanted Advances," and Ijeoma Oluo, Seattle writer and editor at large of the Establishment, about power, behavior and how you change the culture around sexual harassment.

We've seen men accused of sexual harassment, men apologizing, men denying and men being fired. What could women do besides report their behavior? And should we even be asking? We'll talk with Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis and Ijeoma Oluo, editor-at-large for The Establishment.

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.

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. "