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KEXP “Eat the Airwaves” Program Notes, May 18, 2013
Kitchen Notes: Previous ETA program notes are archived below, under “Columns.” Each week, you can listen to Eat the Airwaves live, from 8:30-9:00 AM Saturdays on KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle, or at http://kexp.org. Sorry this is late – real life intervened! This week’s menu: Local: Local elections: Who filed
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Two Book Reviews: “2312″ and “The Yellow Birds”
My first impression of “2312” by Kim Stanley Robinson is that the author could use a good editor, or needs to take up short-form poetry to sharpen
Your “representatives” at work
Senate Republicans have successfully blocked
PA judge strikes down fracking companies’ rights to privacy, corporate personhood
Last week we covered a California court case in which a judge
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The next SPD chief
UPDATE 4/9 Mayor McGinn is now saying that he will not seek a new chief during the remainder of his current term due to concerns that well-qualified applicants
The Thin Red Line
The massive rezoning in South Lake Union, necessary to help Paul Allen make his next billion, is telling us a lot about both Seattle City Council and the
This is what democracy really looks like: Sequester impact on Washington State
The national Republican Party’s fanatic, nihilist approach to cutting government spending – and refusing to pay for it when such spending benefits
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KEXP “Eat the Airwaves” Program Notes, May 11, 2013
Previous ETA program notes are archived below, under “Columns.” Each week, you can listen to Eat the Airwaves live, from 8:30-9:00 AM Saturdays
KEXP “Eat the Airwaves” Program Notes, May 4, 2013
Kitchen Notes: Previous ETA program notes are archived below, under “Columns.” Each week, you can listen to Eat the Airwaves live, from 8:30-9:00
KEXP “Eat the Airwaves” Program Notes, April 27, 2013
Kitchen Notes: Previous ETA program notes are archived below, under “Columns.” Also, due to the new paywall, we are no longer linking to Seattle
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Reclaim Our History: May 16-31
| June 1, 1660: Quaker Mary Dyer hanged on Boston Common for heretical preaching. 1914: Eighty militia men refuse to board train as reinforcement for US invasion of Veracruz, Mexico. June 2, 1863: Harriet |
Reclaim Our History: May 1-15
| May 1, 1654: “Under penalty of death, no Irish man, woman, or child, is to let himself, herself, itself be found east of the River Shannon.” An Order from the Parliament of England. 1830: Birth |
Reclaim Our History – April 16-30
| The more things change . . . Apr. 16, 1291: Rudolph Hapsburg purchases rights to govern Lucerne, Switzerland. 1934: Los Angeles County Supervisor Roger W. Jessup calls for deporting some 7,000 indigent |