Will Paine Field make the friendly skies a little more convenient?
Sometimes good things can come in smaller airport packages. Shrimp are sucking oyster farms into the mud; controversial new legislation would change that. The indelible leopard continues to captivate our minds. And we talk about the rise of fentanyl.
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Flights begin out of Paine Field
Secondary airports can feel like a luxury in an age when air travel is becoming increasingly undignified. Burbank in the LA area; Oakland in the Bay – shorter lines, smaller size, easier all around. With the beginning of commercial service from Paine Field, is Everett on its way to becoming the Burbank of the Northwest? We asked aviation journalist Jon Ostrower.
Oyster farm protection legislation
Burrowing shrimp are mucking up the seabed, harming state oyster farms. How to solve the problem? Spray a neurotoxin on the shrimp, says State Senator Judy Warnick. She’s cosponsoring the bill to spray the pesticide, a move to which NOAA and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are opposed.
Fierce: The History of Leopard Print
Can the leopard change its spots? Famously not – and they’re so glamorous it probably wouldn’t want to, says Jo Weldon. She’s headmistress of the Burlesque Academy of New York and author of a book called Fierce: The History of Leopard Print.
The economics of fentanyl
Opioids are in the public eye, and last week we talked about another lesser known addictive drug: benzodiazepines. During that conversation, we discussed yet another substance showing up in Washington: fentanyl. Travis Lupick is author of the book Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction.
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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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