A window into the ocean: New SeaLife Rescue Center helps injured marine animals
Slow down--not every seal pup needs your help! Some seals are just plump, happy and resting. But how can you help the others? We hear from SR3, a new center that's striving to provide care for injured and sick marine life, about what you can do to help! Then, moving through the world both invisible and hypervisible is a difficult reality for author Reagan Jackson, she tells us about her new book. Also, what should happen when the Mayor's texts are deleted? And, The Oregon Trail gets a revamp, no more bow and arrows or other inaccurate depictions of Native Americans.
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This Pacific Northwest center is helping injured marine life
Until recently, if you were walking down a beach in the Pacific Northwest and came across an injured marine life, there wasn't a lot you could do. The SeaLife Response, Rehab and Research center in Des Moines wants you to give them a call when you see a marine life in need. Bill Radke spoke with Casey Mclean, a veterinary nurse and the executive director of SeaLife Response, Rehab and Research about what to look for and when to call.
Author Reagan Jackson on creating space and giving agency
Who do we see? Who's invisible to whom and why? Seattle journalist and author, Reagan Jackson, wants to chase answers to that. She has compiled her work in a new book titled Still Here: A Southend Mixtape from an Unexpected Journalist. Bill Radke spoke with Reagan Jackson, about the invisibility and hypervisibility of Black people in Seattle and beyond.
What happens when the Mayor's texts are deleted?
The latest statement from Mayor Durkan's her chief of staff, says the mayor’s phone was set to delete all texts that were older than 30 days. These messages fall under public disclosure law could be gone permanently. Bill Radke spoke with Mike Fancher, President of the Washington Coalition for Open government, a non partisan non profit focused on access to government information about the consequences of not keeping public records, that includes text messages.
No more bows and arrows in The Oregon Trail
A generation of kids grew up playing an early educational video game called the Oregon Trail. They remember it mostly for the moment their party died of dysentery. Now, a new spin on the wagon train game focuses on more accurately representing Native Americans. KUOW's Anna King shares what's changing in the game.
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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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