Julie Anderson is the Pierce County Auditor. She oversees elections and voter registration for Pierce County. On this episode she explained the election security procedures in Washington State, how ballots will be tabulated, and why…
Derek Kilmer is the US Representative for 711,000 people in most of Tacoma and the entire Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas. He was elected to Congress in 2012. In this conversation we talked about what will…
For better or worse, housing is a commodity. Let’s be honest — it’s for the worse. In the decade since the 2008 housing collapse, housing prices have exceeded the pre-crash highs and more than doubled…
Sarah Frier is a technology reporter for Bloomberg. Her book No Filter is purportedly a history of Instagram, but it reads (to this reader) as an indictment of Facebook the corporation and its Founder Mark…
This episode is our long awaited #NerdFarmReads conversation about Know My Name by Chanel Miller. Miller’s 2019 memoir is her story as a survivor of sexual assault by Brock Turner, the Stanford Rapist. The memoir…
This week Nate hosted Crossing Division – Tacoma’s Talk Show, a sister podcast on the Channel 253 Network. He interviewed regular show host Evelyn Lopez about her recent discovery of the Tacoma Weekly’s pay-to-play endorsement…
Claire Handscombe is a bookseller at East City Bookshop in Washington DC and Book Champion for LibroFM. She is a blogger, web designer, and curator of books playlists. We invited her on the show to…
Derek Young is in his second term as a member of the Pierce County Council, representing District 7. When I saw this article about police use of “vascular neck restraints” (an Orwellian law enforcement euphemism…
Live sports are an important part of my life and this show. Before we departed the states we were season ticket holders to Tacoma Defiance, Sounders FC, and Husky football and had half season passes…
Mohammed Kloub is the engagement editor at Crosscut, a Seattle based news outlet, in partnership with KCTS 9. Moh, who previously held a similar position at the Seattle Times Education Lab, is one of the…