Mascot with Confederate ties faces a vote at suburban Seattle high school A Kirkland high school voted today, Thursday, on whether to drop their mascot: the Rebels. Casey Martin
Fatal gun violence looks different for Seattle kids, depending on where they live Look at the map above. What do you notice? Each red dot represents someone 18 or younger who died of a gunshot wound in King County in the last nine years. Sydney Brownstone
Tech companies are committing 'crimes against logic,' says former Greek finance minister 'If you can't explain the economy in a language young people can understand, you are clueless yourself.' So says former Greek finance minister Yanis... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Bellevue school donates leftovers; now a food bank doesn't have to ration milk A Bellevue school has saved 4,000 pounds of food – enough that a nearby food bank no longer has to ration milk for its families. Ruby de Luna
Why does Seattle need a new youth jail? Hear about those local clergy members who chained themselves to a construction site? They were protesting a new youth detention facility. As you read... KUOW Staff
'Alexa, make an elephant sneeze noise.' I debated whether to share this fart story with you, because farts are – unfairly, in my opinion – maligned as juvenile and bad manners. But I decided... Isolde Raftery
Let's talk about grief: beginners welcome How are you? If you’ve lost a loved one, that may have conjured up memories of a heavy hand on your shoulder, a precisely angled head tilt, a Hallmark... Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
On Columbine anniversary, Seattle-area students keep up pressure for gun control Saying they want to keep up the pressure on elected officials to pass new gun control measures, Seattle-area students joined a national school walkout... Amy Radil
A fox in socks but the basis is racist. Falling out of love with Dr. Seuss Eighth-grader Beezus Murphy has always loved Dr. Seuss. Ann Dornfeld
Tara Westover, author of 'Educated, A Memoir' on being raised by religious radicals Tara Westover grew up in Idaho in a family that practiced a radical form of Mormonism. She never went to school, never saw a doctor, and studied her way into Brigham Young University at 17. Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
