The Record

Bill Radke speaks with Geekwire editor Todd Bishop and Slate Magazine tech writer April Glaser about what it could mean for Seattle that Amazon will set up a second headquarters in a different North American city.

The only Republican member of Congress from the Puget Sound area is leaving. Dave Reichert announced today he will not run for re-election. You'll find out what this means for local and national politics. You'll also hear what it's like to be a Puget Sound area super-commuter — two hours of commute a day or more. And John Keister, former host of Seattle comedy TV show Almost Live , says he'll perform his final stand up show this weekend.

There'll be a rally in Seattle this afternoon against today's announcement about the DACA program. The Trump administration will stop protecting people who were brought to the United States illegally as children. You'll hear local and national reaction to that announcement. And, Lindy West is here. She's a Seattle author and for the last few months she's been a New York Times columnist where she's written sentences like this, describing Seattle smoke , "It’s as though a giant cloche has been

KUOW's Marcie Sillman speaks with Seattle librarian and author Nancy Pearl about her first novel, "George and Lizzie."

Nearly 18,000 young immigrants in Washington state are protected from deportation through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But that protection may come to an end in six months. President Trump announced today that DACA will be phased out. The Obama-era program is for certain immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

The true damage of Hurricane Harvey is still unknown, but does that mean you have to wait to criticize some of the victims? Counter-protestors committed violence against Nazi and white supremacists in Berkeley last weekend; are they doing the right thing or only hurting their cause? Jenny Durkan has cribbed notes from Bernie Sanders and is offering a plan for free college, but is that enough to win over the political left? And is the accidental release of tens of thousands of farmed salmon truly

The recovery effort in Texas from Harvey has been described as a marathon, not a sprint. We're going to talk with a couple of people about how we in western Washington can help Houston — not only now, but down the long road. Also, we'll look at a short term form of help for overdoses: a drug called Naloxone. Is it a cure-all wonder drug? And we're going to figure out why two hallmarks — summer mosquitos and fireflies — don't seem to exist here in Seattle.

Bill Radke speaks with Amy Costello, founder and managing editor of the Tiny Spark podcast, about why you need to be careful with the donations that you send to help with the flooding in Houston.

Bill Radke speaks with Scott Heinze, deputy director of the Pierce County Department of Emergency Management, about the latest efforts and challenges faced by a team of first responders from Washington who went to help with the recover in Houston from Tropical Storm Harvey.

KUOW listener Tom Miller relocated to Seattle from Minnesota, looked around and wondered, “Where are all the mosquitos and fireflies? We brought University of Washington entomology professor Patrick Tobin into the studio to answer that question with Bill Radke on The Record .