theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 09 2008 | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: The cancer drug Avastin can extend life, but only for a few months, at best. The drug can cost 100 thousand dollars a year. Is it worth it? America spends more on medical care than any other country. A huge proportion of health care spending comes at the end of life. Some are asking the hard question – how much money should we spend to prolong
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 2 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: Vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden sparred last night over taxes, energy policy and the Iraq war. What did you think of the debate and how the two came across?Republican Palin sought to reclaim her identity as a feisty reformer. Democrat Biden tried to undercut the maverick image of GOP presidential hopeful John McCain. Did anything
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 3 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: Should some terminally–ill adults be allowed to obtain lethal prescriptions to end their lives? Voters will decide next month. It's Initiative 1000 on the November ballot. What do you think? We'll also be talking about the death penalty. Last week a federal judge rejected the latest appeal by Washington's longest–serving death–row
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 4 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: In November, you'll be asked to approve the Sound Transit 2 plan to expand light rail and bus service. It will cost you an extra nickel in sales tax for every $10 you spend. Is it worth it? Last November, voters turned down a combined transit and roads package. This year, the regional transit agency is back with a transit–only plan. Got questions?
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 5 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: The Justice Department has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate possible criminal conduct in the firing of nine U.S. Attorneys at the end of 2006. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and other top Justice Department officials resigned in the wake of the scandal. One of the fired U.S. Attorneys was John McKay of Western Washington. McKay says
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 6 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: The House votes on the bailout bill today. Over the weekend the Bush administration modified the plan for taxpayers to buy 700 billion dollars in bad debt from banks and financial institutions. Now the money will be paid out in three stages. Any bank that offloads more than 100 million dollars in troubled loans will give the federal government a stake
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 9 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: One side affect of the so–called war on terror has been a huge increase in defense spending. But is that money keeping us safe from terrorist attack? Reporter, columnist, blogger, and radio host Robert Sheer talks about the re–emergence of the military industrial complex in the wake of 9/11 which he documents in his book, "The Pornography
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 10 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: At this hour President Bush is meeting with John McCain and Barack Obama and key members of Congress. They're hammering out an agreement for the biggest federal intervention in financial markets since the Great Depression. Last night the President said if the $700 billion plan isn't worked out fast, there will be a financial panic. Will the plan calm
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theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 11 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: The Bush administration says we're heading toward even worse economic conditions unless Congress approves a $700 billion plan to buy bad debt from the financial industry. But Congress doesn't appear ready to sign on to the plan without conditions. What do you want your member of congress to do? And how much is $700 billion anyway? It's 140 billion dollars
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 12 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: The digital generation is coming of age, and changing everything. So says John Palfrey. He studies the "digital natives" among us, and he says they'll transform everything from our politics to family life. Also today, Wired reporter Jeff Howe explains how businesses "crowdsource" work that individuals used to do. Plus, a journalist
theconversation | Shared With: Everyone - 13 days ago | seattle, radio, talk, kuowQuoted: Four years ago Democrat Chris Gregoire beat Republican Dino Rossi by only 133 votes after three recounts to win the governor's seat. This year Gregoire and Rossi are running again, and polls show it's a dead heat. On Saturday they had their first debate. This hour we'll play excerpts, get reactions from knowledgeable political observers, and hear what

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