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Bill Radke talks to Casey Coombs, reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal , about Amazon's rapid growth over the last decade and what the company's playbook is for getting cities to offer incentives and deals to open fulfillment and data centers in their region. Coombs' reporting is a part of a series The Business Journals' have published called " The Amazon Effect: How taxpayers are funding the disruption of the U.S. economy. "

Taxpayers have spent $1.2 billion to help Amazon thrive. The Puget Sound Business Journal has been working to uncover the Amazon playbook. We’ll take a look at it this hour. For the first time in 31 years, the U.S. Men's National Soccer team will not go to the World Cup. Shockingly, they got knocked out last night and we have a Seattle Sounders player to thank for it. Will President Trump dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada? Canada's Prime Minister Justin

Bill Radke speaks with Steven Agen, Seattle editor of Prost Amerika and host of the podcast Radio Cascadia , about the causes and fall out of the U.S. Men's National Soccer team failing to make it into the World Cup in Russia in 2018.

Bill Radke talks to Lynda Mapes, The Seattle Times environment reporter, about Washington's disappearing salmon population and what it says about the health of our coast and Puget Sound.

Washington state is suing President Trump yet again. The Trump administration has issued new rules that let insurers and employers opt out of covering contraceptives in their health insurance plans. Yesterday, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson challenged those rules in federal court. Did you read about the hiker rescued from the Goat Rock Wilderness over the weekend? Two search and rescue experts will tell you how to not be that hiker. And our Northwest salmon are disappearing. Scientists who

You need a to pack a lot more than a granola bar when you head out on a day hike. Bill Radke talked with Taylor Brugh, vice president of Seattle Mountain Rescue, and Sandeep Nain, owner of the Redmond-based guiding company Miyar Adventures , about how to stay safe in the mountains — even if you’re just planning to be out for a few hours. Nain recounted a harrowing story about a friend who fell while rock climbing and ended up stranded with a concussion. He said the man’s climbing partner didn’t

If we are not rational or disciplined enough to make decision on our own, should the government make them for us? And facing death can be scary and hard to imagine, but maybe we all need to get more comfortable with it. And artificial intelligence may be the wave of the future but that wave can wait when it comes to our children.

Let’s talk about death. No, seriously. It’s time we all had a conversation with our loved ones about dying.

Mass transit is all around you and it’s growing. You see the buses and trains running and new lines being built. So where are we on transit? Is there an important public backlash or has the transit train left the station? Also, the late Jon Rowley's work is a big reason you eat Copper River salmon and Olympia oysters. And, I’ll speak with somebody on the left who thinks the left is too intolerant. Frances Lee is the author of an essay called, “Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice.”

Frances Lee recently asked to be excommunicated from the church of social justice. Lee, who is queer, trans and Chinese-American, was trying to point out the intolerance of the social justice movement. In an article that went viral earlier this year, they chose the headline “ Excommunicate Me from the Church of Social Justice .”