Raising a red flag on potential mass shooters
If you see something and say something: what happens next? Sub Pop’s rise to greatness. Mass extinction on the horizon. And Seattle waves farewell to a noted chef.
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Extreme risk protection
In light of this weekend’s mass shootings, a look at the laws Washington and other states have in place to get firearms out of high risk hands. Journalist Alex Yablon reports on so-called red flag laws for The Trace; in our state they’re called Extreme Risk Protection Orders. King County Prosecutor Kim Wyatt seeks to have that law applied, and explained how it works and how it’s being used.
Gillian Garr, World Domination
Sub Pop is the cauldron that Seattle’s grunge scene was born from. But it started out as a fan zine in Olympia. Music writer Gillian Garr followed the label’s rise to greatness in her book World Domination: The Sub Pop Records Story.
The great dying
The earth has faced several mass extinctions in the past. The dinosaurs’ demise at the hands of an asteroid is probably the most well-known, but we might be heading into an even bigger extinction called “the great dying.” Justin Penn is an oceanography researcher at the University of Washington.
Jerry Traunfeld says goodbye
One of Seattle’s most influential chefs is calling it quits. Jerry Traunfeld’s restaurant Poppy closed yesterday after more than a decade. KUOW’s Ruby de Luna gave the chef an exit interview of sorts.
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Bill Radke
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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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