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Tacoma Maritime Center...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘They get bad grades and get deemed as the bad kid’: Gee calls school system archaic after Tacoma launches Maritime program

Tacoma just opened a first-of-its-kind maritime training program for high school students, and Gee Scott believes it's long overdue.
2 months ago
Monopoly...
Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘Go directly past jail, there’s no room’: Jake and Spike reimagine Seattle Monopoly as new game in the works

A Seattle edition of Monopoly is in the works, and the game's creators are asking the public to suggest locations and landmarks for the board.
2 months ago
American Flag...
Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘I’m so proud of you, buddy’: Jake chokes up watching his son’s school honor 9/11

Jake Skorheim has been thinking about how to teach his kids about 9/11. On Thursday morning, his son's sixth-grade class did it for him.
2 months ago
joy hollingsworth seattle...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘Too many have workshopped their public safety dissertations on communities’: Seattle council president wants action, not plans

Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth told "The Gee and Ursula Show" she is tired of the city treating communities like test subjects.
2 months ago
mariners rick rizzs retire...
Manda Factor

‘I’m going to be a wreck’: Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs reflects on last road trip before retirement

The voice of the Seattle Mariners, Rick Rizzs, left this week for what will be the final road series of his broadcasting career that began 52 years ago.
2 months ago
trump dividend midterms...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘It’s not good branding, it’s great’: Gee, Luke break down the PR strategy behind Trump’s $5K dividend promise

Trump promised every U.S. adult $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms. Public relations expert Luke Duecy joins Gee Scott to break down why the branding works.
2 months ago
9/11 new york twin towers seattle...
Charlie Harger

Seattle couple filmed the Twin Towers from 50 yards away on 9/11. Their tape became key evidence in terror trials. Now they’re telling the full story

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Seattle radio host Tami Michaels and her husband Guy Rosbrook were asleep on the 35th floor of the Millennium Hilton in lower Manhattan, directly across Church Street from the World Trade Center.
2 months ago
twin towers...
Charlie Harger

Harger: For a year, my balcony faced the twin towers. We moved home to Seattle 41 days before they fell

August 1, 2001. I awaken. I open my eyes. And I'm thinking: today I'm moving home. Back to Seattle.
2 months ago
Hot summer...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

After hottest US summer on record, KIRO Meteorologist says ‘good odds’ next year will be even worse

The summer of 2026 is officially the hottest on record in the contiguous United States, surpassing a mark that had stood since the Dust Bowl.
2 months ago
gun violence...
Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘I hope we don’t get territorial’: KIRO hosts back Seattle council’s gun violence strategy, urge mayor not to stand in the way

The Seattle City Council's Public Safety Committee unanimously advanced a resolution calling for a new gun violence reduction strategy.
2 months ago
katie wilson seattle recall bite of seattle...
Jake Skorheim

Jake: Business leaders wrote the plan — now read it, Madam Mayor

Seattle business leaders already handed Mayor Katie Wilson the public safety plan her new year-long task force was created to write.
2 months ago
seattle strip club civil rights...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘This doesn’t smell right’: Gee analyzes the strip club visit that got Seattle’s civil rights director put on leave

Gee Scott reacts to Seattle's civil rights director being found to have sexually harassed an employee at a strip club on a work trip.
2 months ago
seattle shooting (1) gun violence...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘Miss me with all of these plans on paper’: Gee calls Seattle’s gun violence strategies ‘performative’

As Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson prepares to announce her own gun violence prevention strategy, KIRO host Gee Scott isn't sold.
2 months ago
Open AI...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘This is about greed’: Gee says AI companies are gambling with humanity for profit

The people building artificial intelligence are now openly admitting they do not yet have a plan to control what they're creating.
2 months ago
free school meals (1)...
Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘If I have to lay off a few administrators to get kids potatoes, I’m there’: KIRO hosts spar over Seattle’s universal free school meals

Every student in Seattle Public Schools can now receive free school meals, and KIRO host Spike O'Neill said the investment is worth every penny.
2 months ago
Parents Bill of Rights (1)...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘We’re outing our youngsters’: WA Senator with nearly 40 years in law enforcement urges ‘no’ vote on Parents Bill of Rights

Washington voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to approve Initiative 001, which would restore the original text of the Parents Bill of Rights.
2 months ago
boy in the tent aurora fentanyl...
Manda Factor

‘Boy in the tent’ enters school for the first time at age 10: ‘I want to go back’

The "boy in the tent" walked through school doors for the first time ever on Tuesday.
2 months ago
wa canada trade war tariff...
Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘It hits us in our pocketbooks’: Spike breaks down the U.S.-Canada trade war’s impact on WA

Spike O'Neill walked through both sides of the U.S.-Canada trade war and said the fallout is heading straight for Washington.
2 months ago
apple foldable iphone...
Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘It’s a pretty big deal’: Spike credits Apple for its first real innovation in years with the foldable iPhone

Spike O'Neill said he discovered Apple's new foldable iPhone by accident because he Googled a new phone for his wife. Now he's swamped with targeted ads.
2 months ago
belltown shooting poverty...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘What are we willing to do?’: Gee connects the Belltown shootings to a deeper problem rooted in poverty

Gee Scott spoke about three separate shootings in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood over Labor Day weekend leaving three people dead and its links to poverty.
2 months ago
income tax I-645...
John Curley Show

‘It’s coming for everybody’: Curley urges YES on I-645 after Supreme Court deadlock keeps disputed ballot language

The Washington Supreme Court split 4-4 on a petition to remove a statement from ballots for I-645, the measure to repeal the state's % income tax.
2 months ago
Beth's cafe...
John Curley Show

‘Our governor was able to destroy so many businesses’: Curley celebrates Beth’s Cafe coming back to life

Beth's Cafe is open 24 hours a day again. For Curley, host of "The John Curley Show," the comeback is as much an indictment as a celebration.
2 months ago
Wilson belltown...
Jake Skorheim and Spike O'Neill Show

‘The mayor is just not ready for prime time’: Spike rips Mayor Wilson’s response to deadly Belltown shootings

KIRO host Spike O'Neill said Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's response has been a failure of both communication and common sense.
2 months ago
embassy suite strike...
Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

‘Ain’t no part of bridge-building happening with this leadership’: Gee questions mayor joining Embassy Suites picket line

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said she was on the picket line to support living wages. But KIRO host Gee Scott wasn't buying it.
2 months ago