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Bill Radke talks Susan Hutchison, the chairman of the Washington State Republican Party, about how national issues play locally with the Republican base.

Seattle Police are investigating the fatal shooting of an African-American woman over the weekend. Police say she pulled a knife. We'll tell you the latest. Also, the head of Washington state's Republican party will tell you how the state GOP is attracting voters in the age of Trump. A Portland band has won the right to trademark their name, a name they admit can be offensive. And what is Amazon up to buying Whole Foods?

Reporter Patricia Murphy talks to Bill Radke about the fatal police shooting of 30-year-old Charleena Lyles that happened in her apartment near Magnuson Park Sunday morning.

Bill Radke talks to Peg Coleman, who runs the Domestic Abuse Women's Network , about why so many mass shooters have a history of domestic violence and what we miss when domestic violence isn't in the conversation around mass violence.

Do you need to post selfies to Instagram on Mount Rainier? Or call 911 in an emergency? Spotty cell service makes it hard but that might be changing. Seattle wants an income tax on rich people. Who's rich? You are if you make over $250,000. Good idea? We'll debate that. And stick around because later this hour Sen.Al Franken (D-MN) will take a break from investigating President Trump to talk with us live on KUOW about his new book, "Giant of the Senate."

"Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness," that's what the famous naturalist John Muir said. Sounds like Muir would not want his cell phone to work at Mount Rainier National Park. But the park service wants to know what you think about a proposal to add cell service at Mount Rainier's Paradise Visitors Center. Public comment is open now. KUOW producer Matt Martin explains to host Bill Radke about what people visiting Paradise think

Bill Radke talks to Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien about why he sponsored a resolution saying Seattle will uphold the Paris Climate Agreement and how city leaders can get the city to reduce its carbon footprint.

Bill Rakde talks to Joseph Janes, associate professor in the University of Washington Information School, about why he includes the 18 and a half minutes of static recording from the Nixon tapes in his new book "Documents that Changed the Way We Live." You can hear his podcast Documents that Changed the World .

Bill Radke talks with Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington, about climate change and what he perceives to be exaggeration on the environmental left. Mass says he believes the environmental left is trying to boost social justice by connecting it to global warming and that some things happening today are normal, natural events that have no connection to man-made climate change. He also says there is a chance for a bipartisan approach to address climate

The man who accused Seattle's mayor of sexual abuse is dropping his lawsuit. We'll bring you the details. Also, a Seattle poet searches for the name of her medical diagnosis and finds out it's the same one you and I have. And a University of Washington atmospheric scientist argues the "environmental left" is crying wolf on climate change and hurting its own cause.