The Record

It's the last day of work for your Washington state legislators. Lawmakers are supposed to wrap up the session by midnight. KUOW's Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins has the latest on what's still in play.

Sometime when your state legislators don't act, the citizens do. They pass a voter initiative. We saw that with same-sex marriage and marijuana, voters changing the law themselves. Well this morning there is a different story. There was about to be an initiative to make it easier to prosecute police officers who use deadly force, but this time, legislators are trying to head off that initiative. Austin Jenkins joins us to discuss this bill and a few others that are trying to make in time before

Bill Radke sits down with child psychologist Alison Gopnik, author of the new book "The Gardener and the Carpenter." Gopnik explains her problems with modern parenting and how to better face the unexpected that comes with raising a child.

Fantasy author Tamora Pierce has inspired young people for decades with her stories about strong girls who do things like disguise themselves as boys so they can defend their kingdoms as knights. Among her inspired readers was a young Lindy West, now a New York Times columnist. We invited West to interview Pierce at KUOW.

Bill Radke speaks with Anne McTiernan about her new memior called, "Starved: A Nutrition Doctor's Journey from Empty to Full ." McTiernan is a research professor at the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine and a member of the public health sciences division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Amazon wants to sell you devices that help you control your home. It would be able to access to your home, appliances in your home security of your home. Google also wants to sell you that stuff. How useful or dangerous would that be and what does the Amazon Google fight mean for you --the consumer? Geekwire's Todd Bishop explains.

A King County judge says a 150-year-old law lets people live in their cars, because some people's cars are their homes. Seattle Times Project Homeless reporter Vianna Davila explains what it could mean for an estimated 2,300 people living in vehicles in King County.

Bill Radke spoke with Dyer Oxley, co-host of the NW Nerd podcast, and TyTy, a Northwest cosplayer and the creator of Lead by Example Apparel, about what goes into the creation of costumes worn in cosplay.

Governor Inslee has until midnight to sign a controversial public records bill, or veto it. We'll get two takes on S.B. 6617 from Seattle Times editorial page editor Kate Riley and Seattle Democratic state representative Gerry Pollet.

In "1984," surveillance devices were installed in homes by the government. In 2018, we pay corporations to install the surveillance ourselves. Kashmir Hill, a journalist with Gizmodo, chatted with Bill Radke about her own foray into smartening up her home.