Bill Radke talks to Eli Sanders , associate editor for the Stranger, about May Day protests — from the traditional immigrants' rights and workers' rights march that has taken place for the last 18 years to the more recent marches lead by anarchists. Sanders wrote about the antigovernment protesters and May Day last year in the Stranger.

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.

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 with Bellevue City Council member Kevin Wallace about homelessness in Bellevue.

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 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.

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 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.

Bill Radke talks to Cal McAllister, co-founder and executive creative director of The Wexley School For Girls, about Nordstrom's expensive, faux mud-caked jeans.

Seattle's billionaires are changing the world. Sometimes for the better, but sometimes it's a threat to democracy. “Bill Gates has raised a lot of alarms,” said author David Callahan said. “Bill and Melinda Gates helped orchestrate this movement to the Common Core across the entire nation.” Callahan continued: “I don’t want to suggest that Bill Gates is evil at all. I think he has the best of intentions, but I think that it’s pretty alarming stuff seen from a certain vantage point.”