Amina Al-Sadi
Stories
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Government
This Week in Review came to you anonymously
Bill Bryant, the former Republican candidate for governor and former Port of Seattle commissioner, Joni Balter, the host of Civic Cocktail on the Seattle Channel, and Hanna Brooks Olsen, a writer and political strategist who's taking a break from campaigns to edit Real Change.
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Government
Strikes, streetcars and Safeco in this week’s news
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Chris Vance the co-chair of Washington Independents, Erica C. Barnett, writer at the C is for Crank and David Kroman, reporter for Crosscut.
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Resignation or Retirement? Why it matters in the case of this former Washington State employee
Bill Radke talks to Northwest News Network's Austin Jenkins about the case of Dale Peinecke, a former cabinet member in Governor Jay Inslee's office who...
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Week In Review: Live from Renton!
After Richard Russell stole, flew and crashed a Horizon Air Q400 turboprop, an odd thing started popping up online: YouTube tribute videos. What drives...
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Should you still read 'Little House on the Prairie?'
Little House on the Prairie is a classic American children’s series. The books follow the life and challenges of the Ingalls family as told by their daughter Laura. They chronicle the frontier life of white settlers who pushed far into the West and struggled to farm land. They were comforting stories of blazing hearths and bedtime fiddling, of family love overcoming locusts and blizzards and prairie fires. But behind Laura Ingalls Wilder's positive depiction of prairie life was a darker story. It's one Caroline Fraser chronicles in her book 'Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder.' She talks with Bill Radke about what you do with a series like Little House on the Prairie.'
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Stealing an airplane 'an unbelievably rare occurrence'
Bill Radke talks to Jon Ostrower, editor in chief of The Air Current about airline security and what can be done after a Horizon Airlines plane was...
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Why Ben Gibbard wants to save The Showbox
This week, people who want to save Seattle's Showbox theater came to City Hall. They don't want a developer to turn the 80 year old downtown concert...
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Reviewing our love/hate relationship with Seattle
Is it fair to shoot sea lions for eating fish that we want orcas to eat? If we’re going to shoot the sea lions, are we ourselves willing to also stop eating Chinook salmon?
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Megacities, ravaged land, and companion robots. Could that be our future?
Imagine the Pacific Northwest in the future.
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We may be fighting wildfires all wrong
Firefighters should rethink how they battle wildfires. That's according to environmental journalist Richard Manning who just wrote a piece in Harper's...