At Length with Steve Scher

Former Maine Republican Senator Olympia Snowe says procedural reforms restore respect for elected officials. She has written "Fighting For Common Ground: How We Can Fix The Stalemate In Congress."

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Olympia Snowe

Garth Stein had a runaway hit with "The Art of Racing in the Rain." His new novel is "A Sudden Light." It is a character about a young boy, his father and a wooden house in the Northwest that is haunted by the spirits of the forest and the people who cut it down.

Garth Stein

Steven Scher

Historian Junius Rochester writes histories at a very small scale, telling stories of neighborhoods, institutions, and individuals. He was president of the Pioneer Association of the State of Washington. He took Steve Scher on a tour of the association's 104-year-old headquarters, Pioneer Hall, in the Madison Park neighborhood of Seattle. Recorded in 2014.