Lisa Brooks
Weekend Edition and On-Call News HostLisa Brooks hosts Weekend Edition as well as fills in as News Host for Morning Edition and All Things Considered on KNKX.
In her decades-long career, Lisa has worked as a newscaster, reporter, host and editor in Public Radio and TV in Seattle and Cleveland, OH, and in Commercial Radio in Seattle, Harrisburg and York PA , and Westminster MD.
Two career highlights; becoming the first woman Public Address Announcer in Major League Baseball's American League for the Seattle Mariners in the 1990's and occasionally in the early 2000's. And, winning the 2024 Gracie Award from the Alliance of Women in Media for a feature story focusing on Kent-Meridian High School.
Lisa is also a singer-songwriter with two CDs of original music and loves spending time with her sweet rescue pup, Quincy.
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The Timberland Regional Library system hasn't had much success with levies. It serves residents in Thurston, Lewis, Grays Harbor, Mason and Pacific counties with 29 branches. -
Mayor Katie Wilson has proposed expanding a strategy used in Pioneer Square during the World Cup to the entire city, which would cost around $37 million.
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City Attorney Erika Evans has created two new openings to work with the county to prosecute crimes associated with gun violence and sex trafficking.
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The Seattle Times has promised the union all reporting will be done by human beings, but it stopped short of including copy editors and other newsroom jobs.
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The State Board of Education has put the finishing touches on the "FutureReady" plan, which shifts focus to student needs after they leave school.
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Rates for the Washington Health Benefit Exchange are going up again next year. Plans will increase in cost by about 22%, affecting thousands of people.
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Thousands of fish — including federally protected Chinook salmon — were found dead this summer near the light rail running on the floating bridge across Lake Washington.
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Residents petitioned King County to stop the construction of an asphalt plant. The county bought the land from the plant developers for $14 million.
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Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler a former 3rd District congressional representative and former state lawmaker, said lawmakers aren't spending within their means.
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Big changes are coming to Meta’s social media platforms after a nationwide lawsuit claiming the company violated federal and state child privacy laws.
