KUOW Seattle News and Information Podcast
1) Mayor Jenny Durkan wants to renew education funding while cutting budgets city-wide
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is reiterating her plan to cut the budget of every department in the city. Speaking on KUOW's The Record on Thursday, Durkan declined to specify how steep the cuts will be, ...Show More
2) Running late? Never fear: summer in Seattle still has a lot to offer
Welcome to the eight weeks of pleasant weather our fair city has to offer! Don't worry if you didn't make trail and camping reservations months ago - Seattle has a lot to offer procrastinators.
3) Why scientists went searching for a meteorite off the coast of Washington
Bill Radke talks to Jenny Waddell, research coordinator at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. She was on the exploration ship that went hunting for a meteorite on Monday. The team livestream...Show More
4) Mayor Jenny Durkan on the streetcar delay, next year's budget cuts and the education levy
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan joins Bill Radke in studio to answer listener questions. We talk about the education levy on the ballot this November, next year's budget, the streetcar delay, her fondness ...Show More
5) Pinball and barnacles: don't sleep on the last-minute delights of summer
Summer in the Pacific Northwest is ten months of planning followed by two months of all-out sprint. Passes for trails and campsites go fast. If you weren't organized enough to get yours in advance, do...Show More
6) Hundreds sworn in as new U.S. citizens on Independence Day
While many people were barbecuing and playing in the sun for the Fourth of July, hundreds in Seattle became new U.S. citizens.
7) POLAROIDS: How Seattle's signature hot dog got its cream cheese
Mara Dillinger stood at a hot dog cart in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, eating her fourth hot dog of the night.
8) Seattle-area housing prices are rising $5 an hour, every hour, every day
Housing prices in metropolitan Seattle are rising by more than $5 an hour, every hour of every day, according to the Puget Sound Regional Council.
9) Seahawks' Michael Bennett: 'I'll be black forever'
Michael Bennett is a man who needs little introduction. He is famous as a professional football player, a philanthropist and an activist. Now, add author to the list. Bennett’s first book, written wit...Show More
10) Love letters to a past and future assassin
"In a second I'll tell you how little writing rescues." That promise, from the opening poem of Terrance Hayes' "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin", is only partially kept. The poems in ...Show More