ordnance...
MyNorthwest Staff

More details on mystery mine found floating in Puget Sound

The Navy says a mine floating near the Brownsville marina on Tuesday was an inert training mine from an exercise back in 2005.
6 years ago
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Ron Upshaw

Shower Thoughts: Softening to unions

Oh man, I really needed a hot shower this morning. These are some of the random thoughts that bounced through my head.
6 years ago
cleveland high school...
Hanna Scott

Cleveland High School is finally getting a football field

Cleveland High School has been called Seattle's forgotten football team. Finally, on Tuesday, they made progress toward getting a new sports field to practice on.
6 years ago
pizza box...
Rachel Belle

Beyond the straw ban: Seattle pizza parlor offers reusable pizza box

How long do you use a pizza box? That's why Seattle's World Pizza has introduced what they believe to be the country's first reusable pizza box.
6 years ago
Ron Upshaw

Is the dream of home ownership dead?

I'm not talking to the people who are already on the ownership train. Your dream is still intact.
6 years ago
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Ron and Don Show

Family of missing hiker continues searching in North Cascades

The family of Samantha Sayers, missing since Aug. 1, is funding the search after Snohomish County announced it was ending its operation last week.
6 years ago
youtube...
Ron Upshaw

Why so many Millennials didn’t know John McCain had died

People under the age of 35 live in an entirely different media landscape -- YouTube. That's probably why most millennials I know didn't even hear that John McCain died last weekend.
6 years ago
modular housing...
Ron and Don Show

Will county’s $12M modular housing sites solve homelessness crisis?

King County has a plan to house people in need with modular housing. But could this be another patch, instead of a solution to the region's homelessness and housing crisis?
6 years ago
samantha sayers...
Ron and Don Show

Mother of Samantha Sayers not angry at sheriff for suspending search

Lisa Yax Sayers isn't angry at Snohomish County Sheriff's Office for calling off the search for her missing daughter Samantha Sayers, and remains vigilant in continuing the search.
6 years ago
chicken farm...
Rachel Belle

When you love animals, but you eat them, too

Grant Jones left Seattle to work on a Shelton chicken farm. He had never slaughtered a chicken before. Rachel gets up close and personal with the process of killing your food.
6 years ago
cat killer...
Ron Upshaw

Find and arrest the cat killer before it’s too late

I'm convinced we have the opportunity to catch a future human killer before it reaches that point.
6 years ago
Ron Upshaw

Shower Thoughts: Laughing at the Cohen charging document

I wonder who Individual-1 could possibly be? I guess Michael Cohen will have take that secret to his grave.
6 years ago
smoke...
Ron and Don Show

Don’t like the smoke? We can change that

Some of the worst air quality in 100 years is a taste of what the region was like a century ago, according to Cliff Mass, Atmospheric Sciences professor at the University of Washington.
6 years ago
gas pump, social justice, I-1631...
Ron and Don Show

Ron: Considering social justice at my Seattle gas station

Last night, I witnessed an interaction between a Seattle gas station employee and another customer -- a black man. I'm trying to figure out if this was a biased interaction as I consider social justice more and more.
6 years ago
south lake union, tiny home...
Ron and Don Show

First tiny house installed at South Lake Union encampment

And so it begins. T first tiny house was installed in the new city-sanctioned, low-barrier lot on Aloha Street in South Lake Union
6 years ago
marathon...
Don O'Neill

Running through life: A letter to my 8-year-old son

Don wrote a letter to his son. He starts off: Your dad ran his first marathon in the woods this past weekend at the Redmond Watershed. He continues to note that Hanson's 1997 hit "MMMBop" holds up.
6 years ago
Stonehenge...
Ron and Don Show

Time is our greatest currency; are you wasting it?

Two times this week I caught myself saying to someone, "Can you believe it's almost September?"
6 years ago
(Photo by Toa Heftiba, unsplash)...
Rachel Belle

90% of spas and resorts won’t give massages and facials to people touched by cancer

The nonprofit Wellness for Cancer is on a mission: to train as many of the world's spa practitioners, so they don't turn away those dealing with cancer.
6 years ago
social media, twitter facebook...
Ron Upshaw

Why you should post on social media when you change your mind

About 14 percent of people have changed their minds because of something they saw on social media. People should start posting about when they have changed their mind.
6 years ago
shower thoughts...
Ron Upshaw

Shower thoughts: Wildfires, Seattle music, and Paul Manafort

In this edition of Ron Upshaw's Shower Thoughts, he considers all the wildfires and smoke around Seattle, Paul Manafort's legal strategy, and congratulates the new Seattle police chief.
6 years ago
wildfires...
Ron and Don Show

Weather expert on wildfires: We did this to ourselves

The many wildfires burning from California to British Columbia have many causes -- including generations of man-made missteps that have led to the current fiery predicament the West Coast faces.
6 years ago
Cleveland High School...
Don O'Neill

Don O’Neill: I am guilty of bullying

We let it rip on the radio when it came to Superintendent Nyland and his staff. It wasn’t personal. It had to be done. for the kids at Cleveland High School.
6 years ago
Ron and Don Show

Gen. McCaffrey says F-15s were ‘prepared to shoot’ down Richard Russell

General Barry McCaffrey joined the Ron and Don Show on KIRO Radio to talk about how two F-15's responded so quickly to a stolen plane out of Sea-Tac Airport on Friday.
6 years ago
Robinson cano...
Ron Upshaw

I’m rooting for Robinson Cano, but …

I'm going to root for Robinson Cano because I want the team to do well, not necessarily because I'm a Cano fan.
6 years ago