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This week our son called me sus. Its short for suspect and gen alpha slang for shady.

He’s not wrong. I still call things cool or awesome without irony. I often wear ankle socks (which the internet says makes me old). I’ve never downloaded Tik Tok and I still don’t understand what Skibidi Toilet even is.

But here’s the thing…I’m also not upset about it.

The time is now for Washington to learn from last summer's tragic Lahaina fires, KIRO Radio Meteorologist Ted Buehner explains why. 

That’s why the commencement speech by Kansas City Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker caught me off guard. His theme: Stay in your lane. But he spent the first 15 minutes veering outside of it, criticizing many things and people -- the president, birth control, the COVID-19 response, priests, bishops, Catholics, Pride Month, shacking up, the emasculation of men, IVF, I could go on.

President Biden's weekend visit inconvenienced a lot of people -  and for what.

In today's commentary, KIRO's Matt Markovich says his visit is no different from what baseball's Sammy Sosa is doing.

We as broadcasters are held responsible for what we put out on the airwaves, so why not treat social media companies and the content they produce the same way? 

This week the school board of Seattle Public Schools voted to move forward with a plan that could lead to the closure of over ¼ of the district’s current elementary schools, and that means changes are coming to parents across the district.