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This story originally aired on April 30, 2016. Woody Guthrie, often considered America's greatest folk icon, authored hundreds of ballads during his lifetime. His most famous song "This Land is Your Land," like many of his songs, sketched both the political and geographic American landscape. "When the sun come shining, then I was strolling In wheat fields waving and dust clouds rolling The voice was chanting as the fog was lifting This land was made for you and me" In 1941, the federal

This story originally aired on April 30, 2016. As an orthopedic surgeon in Iraq, Dr. Faried Alani had a highly successful career working at a hospital and a prosperous, happy life with his wife and two daughters. Many of the people he operated on were victims of bombs and bullets, but he forced himself to keep the violence at a distance emotionally, in order to do his job more effectively. But that changed one evening, as Alani was leaving work. "I usually go back to my home by my car and that

This weekend, many parents will read “The Night Before Christmas” to their children. Well, KNKX has something special for you: a reading of an abridged version of the almost 200 year old poem by many of the voices you hear on the air here at KNKX, and some you don’t normally get to hear on the air. Enjoy.

Authorities have confirmed three deaths in Monday’s Amtrak derailment near DuPont. On Tuesday, the public learned the identities of two of those people. Zack Willhoite was 35. He worked in customer service at Pierce Transit. James Hamre was 61, and a retired civil engineer. They were on the inaugural run of Amtrak’s new route between Seattle and Portland because they were rail enthusiasts. Both were active with the group “All Aboard Washington,” which promotes passenger rail travel. KNKX All

This week on Sound Effect, our theme is "One of Many" ... the tension between standing out and fitting in. Host Gabriel Spitzer heads to St. Francis of Assisi school in Burien to talk to kids about how they stand out when they have to wear uniforms. We meet a man who battled addiction and landed a felony conviction, only to become a lawyer after his sentence was over. Jennifer Wing introduces us to a group of women with HIV , who have found comfort in sisterhood with others diagnosed with it.

At first glance it may seem like the students at St. Francis of Assisi school in Burien are dressed pretty much alike: white collar shirts, red plaid skirts for the girls, navy blue pants or shorts for the boys. But look closer, and you’ll see that many of them have brought a little something special to their outfits. “I wear a gold watch,” says Gino Morella. “I have white Adidas superstars that I’ve worn all year,” says Gabriel Hamilton. “I tend to wear a leather jacket,” says Rachel Fry. Also

Christopher Poulos is the head of the Washington Statewide Reentry Council, dedicated to helping those who have been through the criminal justice system. It’s the kind of job that he is uniquely qualified for. As a teenager, Poulos struggled with severe substance abuse, leading him into homelessness and then incarceration. He saw the problems of the justice system firsthand, especially how it disenfranchised the poor and people of color. This inspired Poulos to do what seemed nearly impossible -

When Nicole Price was 25 years old, life was not going the way she had planned. She was addicted to meth, she had a hard time holding down a job and then a test revealed she was HIV positive. “I was afraid of dying. I was afraid of never being able to have kids, of never being able to get married. My family not loving me anymore. It was a really scary time,” remembers Price.

Any parent of more than one child will tell you that they have no favorites. They will tell you that the well from which love is drawn has no bottom. This is what Donald Vass would say about books. "I sense a type of universal voice coming from all of these books. And often when I open a book and my eyes will land upon a set of words or a sentence, a passage that will speak to me. And sometimes, that will speak to me at a moment when I very much need it," says Vass. Vass finds this to be true of

To say that Washington State University Cougars have school spirit is a wild understatement, and if you have any in your life, you know they don't hesitate to remind you. Now, Cameron McCoy and many other members of Coug nation have reached a significant milestone in letting their flags fly. Actual flags. Cameron and his accomplices in the Ol' Crimson Booster Club have made it their business to get a Coug to a different city each week during college football season, and wave the WSU flag in the