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When Democratic state lawmaker Jim Jacks of Vancouver abruptly resigned his seat in 2011, the public was told it was for “personal and family reasons.” Turns out, there was more to the story. KUOW’s Austin Jenkins explains.

We spend this hour of The Record with WNYC's Brooke Gladstone, co-host and editor of On The Media. She'll tell you how media can distort reality and what you can do about it.

Lindy West knows what she wants men to do next. And it doesn’t involve making shameful public confessions or warning about possible “witch hunts” against powerful men.

Someone is sending letters with the names and addresses of supposed undocumented immigrants with criminal records to Burien residents ahead of a contentious City Council race. Are the mailers accurate? Legal? Ethical? KUOW’s Liz Jones has reaction from Burien.

President Trump's former campaign manager pled not guilty today to money laundering and other charges. Does his indictment move Trump closer to impeachment or farther away? We’ll talk with The Washington Post’s Libby Casey.

Thinking of making a career switch? Maybe you should consider coding. No, really — it’s not as hard as you probably think. That’s according to Cheri Allen, a software engineer and educator at the University of Washington and Unloop .

Bill Radke talks with Washington Post opinion columnist Christine Emba about Amazon Key , a new delivery service from Amazon that drops off packages inside customer's homes. Emba's latest column in titled "Amazon Key is Silicon Valley at its most out of touch."

Bill Radke talks to Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien about a proposed head tax that would require high earning businesses in Seattle to pay $100 per employee. The funds raised would go towards programs that help people experiencing homelessness.

If you worry that high paying tech jobs are pricing you out of your city, why don't you take one of those tech jobs? Why don't you learn how to code? Would that be too hard? Or too expensive? Or too boring? We'll look for the joy of coding.

Seattle is a city that’s been shaped by technology, from Boeing to Microsoft to Amazon. But there’s a new digital presence influencing how we see the city: poetry. The Seattle Poetic Grid is the culminating project of Claudia Castro Luna , in her role as the inaugural Seattle Civic poet. In conversation with The Record’s Bill Radke, she says it makes perfect sense for a poetic atlas to live in the world of ones and zeros.