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In Tacoma's Roma Community, Hustling Was A Way Of Life

Will James

This story originally aired on September 27, 2017.Growing up Roma meant growing up fast -- and learning how to hustle. That's how Miller Steve describes…

Environment

Exhibit inspires woman to try to avoid buying plastics for a month

Bellamy Pailthorp

Plastics have only been in wide use since the 1940s, yet they are everywhere, from sandwich bags to phones, to keyboards, to rain gear. Even the cans of…

Science

So, would you eat a panda?

Barbara J King

A Chinese scientist recently suggested that prehistoric humans ate pandas. The evidence, based on cut marks on panda bones, strikes me as thin, but the…

Environment

Artistic passions on display at the NW Flower and Garden Show

Bellamy Pailthorp

It’s been sunny and fair lately…but what do you do when the dark and cloudy skies of late winter get you down? For many people in the Pacific Northwest,…

NASA's Full Fuselage Shuttle Trainer will be the centerpiece for The Museum of Flight's new Space Gallery, since Seattle is not getting one of the four actual space shuttles that are retiring. The Museum says the FFST is one of a kind in the world.

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Seattle's Museum of Flight says no shuttle is sad, but they're getting the next-best thing

Bellamy Pailthorp

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-963091.mp3It's a day of disappointment in the northwest for fans of US space…

Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in February of this year. Seattle's Museum of Flight's hopes to display one of the retiring shuttles were spoiled in favor of New York, Washington, D.C. and suburban Los Angeles.

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Seattle's Museum of Flight won't get a space shuttle

The Associated Press

NASA says Seattle's Museum of Flight won't get to display one of the retiring space shuttles.The museum near Boeing Field was one of 21 museum and science…

An artist's rendering of the new gallery plan at Seattle's Museum of Flight, a gallery intended to permanently lure a NASA Space Shuttle. The agency will announce the winners of the competition to host the retiring spacecraft Tuesday at 10am PST.

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Museum of Flight a hopeful contender for Tuesday's space shuttle decision

Bellamy Pailthorp

The odds are about one in seven. That's the skinny on Seattle's bid to become a host site for one of NASA's retiring space shuttles. Seattle Times writer…

Tully's Coffee prides itself on providing the feel of "a family room - not a living room" says a spokesman about Starbucks biggest rival's approach to coffeehouse culture.

Business

Still no IPO, but another new CEO for Seattle's second largest coffee enterprise

Bellamy Pailthorp

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-959787.mp3Tully's Coffee has lost yet another CEO. Seattle's second biggest coffee…

Late carver John T. Williams' brother, Rick, beams with joy as he and another carver, Dan Martin, make the first cuts on a 120-year-old cedar. Their carve-in will go on for at least 6 months.

Century-old cedar totems to honor native woodcarver at Seattle Center "carve-in"

Bellamy Pailthorp

An ancient cedar tree was delivered earlier today (Tuesday) to the Seattle Center. Several totem poles carved from it in public will commemorate the life…

Dr. Maya Angelou receives the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, from President Barack Obama, Feb. 15, 2011, in Washington, D.C.

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Interview with poet, author and playwright Dr. Maya Angelou

Bellamy Pailthorp

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kplu/local-kplu-956447.mp3One of America's most prominent living poets is coming to Seattle. Dr. Maya…