The Record

Seattle mayoral candidates are answering your questions on KUOW. On today is Jessyn Farrell. We also asked for your questions for the head of Metro Transit. What makes a fantastic bus driver and a less-than fantastic one? And we look at the rise of medical crowd funding, where you go online and ask strangers to pay medical bills that you cannot afford. It may sound callous but there are certain ingredients that makes a medical crowd funding campaign succeed or fail.

Bill Radke talks to Lauren Berliner, assistant professor of media and communication and culture studies at the University of Washington Bothell, and Nora Kenworthy, assistant professor in the school of nursing and health studies at the University of Washington Bothell, about their study on the rise of the use of crowdfunding sites as a way to pay for medical bills .

In February of 2016 Andre Taylor was in L.A. when he got a phone call from his stepmom in Seattle. She told him his little brother Che Taylor had been shot by the police. Che Taylor was standing next to the open door of a car. The two officers said he was reaching for a gun when they fired.

Bill Radke speaks with Seattle-based journalist and author Blaine Harden about the history of North Korea and the tensions between it and the U.S.

First up today we have Gov. Jay Inslee as our guest. He'll tell you whether the new state budget is fair or unfair to the Puget Sound area. We'll also talk with a journalist about why North Korea hates the United States, but also kind of needs us as well. And, should Washington state law change to make it easier to prosecute police for shooting people?

Bill Radke talks to Anna King, a journalist with the Northwest News Network, about her reporting on the Hanford tunnel collapse, including why it happened and what it means for other nuclear waste storage sites at Hanford.

North Korea has launched an intercontinental missile, as in from their continent to our continent. We'll tell you whether that's a threat to Seattle and what President Trump's options are. We'll also show you how police encounters could go differently from how it went in the Charleena Lyles shooting. What happens when officers show up with a mental health co-responder? And British Columbia has a new premier. We'll tell you what's changed in British Columbia.

Bill Radke speaks with Kent Boydston, a research analyst with The Peterson Institute for International Economics, about North Korea testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach Alaska. Boydston discusses the details of the test, President Trump's response, and how worried we should be living in the Pacific Northwest.

Could Charleena Lyles still be alive today if police had not gone to her apartment alone? In Tacoma, an officer can call for help dealing with someone who might be mentally ill. They can call a mental health co-responder. And now, this co-responder program might go statewide. KUOW’s Bill Radke speaks with Tacoma Patrol Officer John Hill and a mental health co-responder who works with officers – Ryan Miles.

Bill Radke talks to Summer Stinson, lawyer and vice president of the parent group Washington's Paramount Duty , and Daniel Zavala, director of policy and government relations with the League of Education Voters , about the end of the latest legislative session and how much closer lawmakers got to fully funding basic education.