Small town corruption. Protections for domestic violence survivors. How to fix our broken school system. Wolves and humpbacks are both rebounding in the Pacific Northwest: one is much more celebrated than the other.

Ross Reynolds talks to Don Harper, from Our Parks Forever and the the No on Prop. 1 campaign, Christopher Williams, superintendent of Seattle Parks, and Erica C. Barnett, political reporter for Publicola, about the Proposition 1 election results.

Recent administration comments restart a debate about what liberty means in America. What does it mean if your teachers never look like you? Facial recognition software may know what you’re feeling. What does historic preservation mean in a city like Seattle? And the spectacle of the Perseids.

Taking a walk on the overlooked side with the viral Instagram project. Washington’s former state transportation head says that when it comes to pedestrian deaths, enough is enough. Gender markers on driver’s licenses: more options, more problems? And, should Narcan be in schools?

Cleaning up after camps. Fiction that gets at the truth. And comics anti-heroes.

Mother’s little helper now comes in a glass rather than a pill bottle. How likely is it that we can stop opiate addiction on the streets? What it felt like to fly into a thunderstorm created by a wildfire. And a new science fiction improv podcast.

Is this nothing more than AirBnB for the unsheltered? How community preference policy might allow longtime residents to stay in their homes. Luscious versus hearty: how much does marketing shape your gender ideas? And would it keep you from recycling? Lastly: signing away sovereignty to the medical establishment, and what that costs.

Two poets say goodbye to Toni Morrison. What's the AG doing about the income tax ban? A recap of last night's primary elections, and an investigation of whether it works to shame people into voting.

Who gives extremist sites shelter? Examining your mother through a different lens once you join her as a parent. Helping a sibling get away with murder. And: don’t get SIM swapped (bad news: there is almost nothing you can do to keep this from happening).

If you see something and say something: what happens next? Sub Pop’s rise to greatness. Mass extinction on the horizon. And Seattle waves farewell to a noted chef.