Amazon and New York are splitting up. Who dumped who?
HQ2.5 tanks when the thrill of the chase wears off. Sheriffs take the law into their own hands, and reach different conclusions. When did our reign as the king of grunge come to an end? And we look at school safety a year after Parkland.
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Amazon and Long Island City are never, ever, ever getting back together
Long Island City pursued Amazon. But once the tech behemoth committed, New York’s ardor began to cool. Tired of being simmered, Amazon pulled out of the deal (to save face)? We spoke to Geekwire’s Monica Nickelsburg about whether HQ1 is ringing with Earth, Wind & Fire’s “After The Love Is Gone” today.
Sheriffs on I-1639
Last fall, ballot initiative 1639 passed into law. It restricts people under 21 from buying semi-automatic rifles, beefs up background checks, and requires safe storage of firearms. Sheriff Jim Raymond of Franklin County says he won’t fully enforce the law. Chelan County’s Brian Burnett, on the other hand, will comply with the law. And Renee Hopkins from the Alliance for Gun Responsibility is one of the sponsors of the initiative.
The death of grunge
Seattle was the capital of grunge… until grunge was no longer a thing. What happened? On the 25th anniversary of the Green Day’s album Dookie, we ask: what killed grunge and why? Ean Hernandez is the former frontman of the band Sicko, Eric Magnuson is guide for the Seattle Grunge Redux walking tour, and Gretta Harley is cowriter and producer of the rock music play “These Streets.”
Amy Radil on school lockdowns
Today is the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. And while technically the number of mass shootings is down since the 1990s, the fear in classrooms and hallways is on the rise. KUOW’s Amy Radil reports on lockdowns, emergency planning, and a generation of kids growing up with the threat of an active shooter in their school.
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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