Scott Greenstone

2 weeks ago | kuow.org | Scott Greenstone

Ferguson's pens have been on the minds of a lot of people for weeks: Democrats, who worried he'd bring out the red veto pen on the budget, and fiscal conservatives, who worried he'd use his blue pen and pass it.The pens have also been on our hosts' minds -- because they represent a big stylistic change from previous governors, and maybe an extension of Ferguson himself? This week on Sound Politics -- what did Ferguson pass, and what did he use the veto pen on, in the state budget?

3 weeks ago | kuow.org | Scott Greenstone

It's an odd year election coming up, and something odd is happening: NINE state legislative districts will hold elections, more than any odd year for the past decade. Why is that happening? In a word: dominoes. Today on Sound Politics we'll talk about the Democratic domino effect, and how these races are exposing intra-party fault lines over the Democrats' new tax plan. Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/politics.

1 month ago | kuow.org | Scott Greenstone

About 100 people rallied at University of Washington's Seattle campus on Thursday to demand the university reverse suspensions against 21 students. The students suspended were among 34 protesters banned from campus after they occupied UW's new engineering building on Monday, blocking exits and smashing lab equipment in an incident that caught the attention of the Trump administration.

1 month ago | m.kuow.org | Scott Greenstone

Bissan Barghouti, an organizer with Nidal Seattle and the Masar Badil, speaks to crowd rallying outside of Gerberding Hall on Thursday, May 8, 2025, on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer About 100 people rallied at University of Washington's Seattle campus on Thursday to demand the university reverse suspensions against 21 students.

1 month ago | kuow.org | Scott Greenstone

It's been a busy first term so far for U.S. Representative Emily Randall of Bremerton, one of two freshman members of Congress, in the other Washington. She's a Democrat representing Washington's 6th congressional district. This week, she joins Sound Politics to talk about her initial months in Congress, her visit to an ICE detention facility in Tacoma, and why she appeared at a town hall in Spokane -- in the district of her fellow freshman, a Republican.