Host Evelyn Lopez sits down with The News Tribune reporter Sean Robinson, who has been covering the ongoing Tacoma teacher strike. (Recorded Thursday morning, September 13) Below are links to his coverage (and Matt’s Driscoll’s…
Tacoma teachers are currently at a labor impasse with the Tacoma School District. Because the school district has the home phone number and home email address for every family they serve, there’s an information asymmetry….
This week’s guests are three members of Puget Sound John Brown Gun Club: Nacim, Avenir, and Erik. Nacim is an attorney and proud social justice warrior. We also had Black Lives Matter activist and civics…
Justin Camarata, Erik Hanberg, and Evelyn Lopez “Hulk-Smash” their way through what’s happening in Tacoma news and politics. Topics include: Teacher strike? Teacher pay. Tenants rights. “Just cause” Primary results Smoke, West Nile Virus, Sinking…
Note: the second half of this episode references the Thompson Group. Since recording, we’ve learned more about their long list of local clients. For more info check their website. In Part II of our look at Northwest…
In part one of our deep dive into The Northwest Detention Center, we had a conversation with Lewis Kamb and Monserrat Padilla. The NWDC, a detention center created to hold undocumented migrants, is the largest private prison…
Guests Beth Kraig and T’wina Franklin join host Julie Anderson to talk about the gains of feminism, but also how white women have so often failed to bring others along through those gains when confronted…
Housekeeping: Buy the fall #NerdFarmReads Book, We Gon Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang This week the pod takes on Social Emotional Learning in schools. Danielle Gonzalez of the Aspen Institute begins…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s … TACO-MAN. Taco-Man’s mission: to review the tacos of Tacoma. It’s a podcast by Taco-Man for all Tacomans* to enjoy. Each episode, he reviews a different…
A reminder our #NerdFarmReads Fall Book is “We Gon’ Be Alright” by Jeff Chang. Buy it, read it, tweet about it using #NerdFarmReads. We’ll record in the fall. The World Cup is the biggest sporting…