Kirby And Carlson

John and Kirby start by talking about how dysfunctional the city of Seattle is and what the Seattle City Council learned just two weeks before the head tax vote (read the KUOW article here) - Plus, our first guest is Saul Spady, he joins us to talk about the petition to get an initiative to stop the head tax on the November ballot. Our next guest this hour is Steven Hayes - editor in chief of the Weekly Standard to talk about his upcoming appearance at the Washington Policy Center's Solutions Summit (more info about that event here). Plus, it's Media Bias Monday and Kirby has the truth about Hamas & Israel, the number of school shootings, and President Trump's remarks about members of MS-13 as "animals".

John Carlson and Kirby Wilbur talk about the school shooting in Texas plus more anger over the 'head tax" and homelessness. It's another edition of Campus Crazies and our guest is Jim Piek from JBLM to talk about the Armed Forces Day Celebration on Saturday! We also talk to Kathy Sutherland about the Olympic Conference on June 2nd and the KOMO's Matt Markovich joins us to talk about his stories on homelessness.

Why did Seattle Police hold back the information about that brutal rape by a homeless man on Monday? John and Kirby talk about that as well as the hatchet attack in downtown Seattle. Plus, Evergreen State College has seen a sharp decline in applications and the guys take calls from listeners about volcanoes and homelessness. That and History Mystery!

The debate over #LaurelorYanny continues and Kirby points out how silly it is but John has a theory and the calles just have fun with it, and Seattle is becoming a punch line because of the actions of the city council and the 'head tax'.

Seattle head tax passes despite widespread opposition, Seattle mayor pats herself on back for head tax compromise plan passing, a scientific poll within Seattle shows the best case scenario for residents supporting a head tax, Seattle city council adamantly dropped Wells Fargo bank over politics and no other bank wanted to bid on the city's contract for banking services, Kirby has a spot in Seattle for 300 homeless people, a major grocery store says it's closing two Seattle stores due to cost of regulations on businesses.

NFL Hall of Famer and Seahawks legend, Steve Largent, shares his thoughts on the passing of former head coach Chuck Knox, Largent and the guys also talk about today's ruling paving the way for legalized sports betting in New Jersey, two new volcanic fissures have emerged near Kilauea in Hawaii and one of them is 1000 feet long, US officially opens new Israeli embassy in Jerusalem, what the embassy move means for the two-state solution, Trump chief-of-staff's comments to NPR about immigration are being called racist by some of the usual suspects on the left, there's a big disconnect between the Seattle City Council and the public support for the employee head tax.

Seattle's mayor wants to try slow-motion socialism, apparently; the Seattle homeless issues belies on-going financial mismanagement by city leaders, GUEST: Tim Eyman says he's loaning himself $500,000 for a third initiative on $30 car tabs. A Seattle business woman comes out ardently for the employee head tax but there's a catch, a new statewide initiative would end 'gun free zone' schools in Washington, I-1621 Tyler sponsor needs 300,000 signatures by July 6th, Israel just proved that Russian anti-missile defense systems don't work very well, we have a healthy dose of Mariachi music for Cinco de Mayo stories in Campus Crazies.

The push back against Seattle's most vocal socialist continues to grow, John's latest Crosscut column, GUEST: Bellevue City Councilman, Jared Nieuwenhuis, talks about the prospect of Seattle businesses taking shelter in nearby cities if they choose to avoid the proposed employee head tax, numerous questions about the fatal shooting of a black man at a West Seattle track & field event who's daughter was competing there, Trump praises North Korea's unexpected release of 3 Americans and announces date for summit with Kim Jong Un.

M's are the new sports darlings in Seattle with historic no-hitter, pit bull mix dog attack in Arlington comes as Yakima may repeal its law passed 30 yrs ago banning pit bulls in the city, KVI callers sound off on pit bulls including one man who's family was nearly attacked, instant analysis of last night's 4 primary votes in IN, OH, WV, NC and what it means for the various Republican candidates.

A Yakima WA area man, Sean Marceau, is pleading for the return of a US flag autographed by the fellow soldiers of his son KIA in Afghanistan, amid interview KVI listeners call spontaneously to donate $700 for flag reward, Sawant Q13 defensive interview, a Seattle shipyard leader tells embattled city councilman to get out of event, one new video is encapsulating the current Hawaii volcanic/lava eruption story.