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Bill Radke speaks with Bremerton Police Chief Steven Strachan about a controversial crossword puzzle published in the New York Times.

When Kent, Washington, was first settled by Europeans, it was called Titusville. So why the name change? Because of beer. Or, to be more precise, because of hops. Or, to be even more precise, because of western Washington's great 19th-century hops craze.

Bill Radke talks with Bellevue City Council member Kevin Wallace about homelessness in Bellevue.

Jeannie Yandel talks with Jaimee Garbacik, author of Ghosts of Seattle Past , about how quickly the city is changing, and why it's important to remember the spaces and places that people love and miss.

Bill Radke talks to Jacque Larrainzar, one of the first people from Mexico to be granted asylum in the United States based on her sexuality. She left Mexico for Seattle in the late 1990s and nearly 20 years later was tasked with helping the Seattle Counseling Services conduct a survey of Seattle's LGBTQ refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers to better understand the needs of their community.

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has called for a peaceful shutdown of the airport and freeways on Monday — May Day. The Washington State Patrol says that's irresponsible. Sawant joins us. And President Trump is reviewing national monuments, including two in Washington state. What are the pros and cons of rolling back some government protected areas? And we'll talk with the NPR editor who's tracking Trump's many conflicts of interest.

Bill Radke speaks with the New York Times Seattle bureau chief Kirk Johnson about the latest executive order from President Donald Trump to review national monuments created in the past 20 years. There are two of those monuments here in Washington: the San Juan Islands National Monument and the Hanford Reach National Monument.

Jacque Larrainzar fled Mexico in the late 1990s. She asked the woman at the airport how far she could go with the $300 in her pocket, and the woman suggested she fly to Seattle.

Bill Radke speaks with state Senator Phil Fortunato about his new bill which would allow Washington state counties to redefine their borders. Fortunato's bill is especially aimed at King County, where he thinks ideas like minimum wage and safe consumption sites are problems that originate from Seattle and shouldn't be allowed to affect the rest of King County. The senator feels places like Renton and Kent would be in better shape if they were allowed to cleave off from the city.

Billionaire philanthropists like Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer are doing a lot to change the world. Often it's for the better. But billionaire philanthropy can also be a threat to democracy. That's the case author and philanthropy expert David Callahan makes.