X FILES!!!!!

Maybe there is local news but it's just all car crashes and the usual drek that really isn't news?

Or someone went on vacation and they're short-staffed?

The downward spiral of KUOW has been happening for awhile.

Did you pay attention when Ken Vincent left last year?

Did you know that KUOW management recently told Weekday to stop blogging?

Speaking of which: did you read about the pedicab accident.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008097642_webpedicab07m.html

Yeah, same old thing: now the bitter angry motorists are decrying pedicabs.

How about making Seattle car-free so there aren't a bunch of two ton tanks roaming the streets like Stegosaurs?

Odd. I believe you are a reporter. I believe KUOW answers questions. I believe this is a newspaper's blog. I believe there could be a connection here to get an answer.

(Disclosure: I'm a regular guest, but I have no idea why they do anything they do. I enjoy working with them.)

@4, read the facts before you troll:

The 23-year-old pedicab driver had a red light but went through the intersection and hit a scooter that was traveling northbound on Western Avenue, police said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/373925_wreck07.html

Seattle local news is always the same.
There is a house or apartment fire every morning.
The commute from Bellevue to Seattle is backed up on the 405 and an accident south bound on I-5 and the alternate advised route is.
The Sonics left what do we do with Seattle Centre
Is Dino Rossi gay..he has gay face oh wait no thats the weather guy
Gov Gregorie is trying to get elected, she is cutting something somewhere and putting in someother things somewhere and if you tun in later during the Insider in 23 minutes Connie Thompson along with Herb Wisebomb with the help of Cisco Morris will finally tell you why Ken Shram is an ass munch oh wait that is the other weather guy.
That is the news every Day.

I fell asleep before I could even finish reading the first sentence. KUOW? Yawn....KEXP should use one of it's digital channels to consolidate real progressive news and talk from Pacifica, and some decent folks locally. Screw NPR and their mainstream left "only two sides" mentality, and even more so screw KUOW for being sooooo boring.

@4: Stop hijacking threads with your off-topic postings. Yeah, a car-free Seattle. That's realistic.

There's another NPR station in town--88.5 KPLU. Yes, they place jazz midday, and other times, but during drive times they have news--local and otherwise.

Right - KPLU has some good local reporting in mid-morning. They usually skip the house fires and cover environmental issues and cultural stuff. Make sure you change the dial before Bird Note comes on at 8:58, though - that hideous oboe will haunt you all day.

@7 is right. There's always some traffic jam you could see on the web if you checked the interactive maps (or used a hands-free voice-activated Blackberry ... um ... oh no *CRASH* ... ok, not a good idea. And by the time you hear of it, you're not going to be able to change your route.

There's always some fire that has zilch to do with you. Because if it was close you'd hear the sirens and see the fire trucks.

There's some lame sports thing about how they want more money or we told them no and now Enumclaw is trying to force Seattle to pay for it.

Heck, most of the national news is like that too - mostly ambulance chasing five states away that is all about Fear and Worry and not relevant.

I don't mind Marketplace, but I miss the bizarre personality of Deborah Brandt.

Whoo! I love Marketplace. How much you ask? Enough to know that KUOW actually has a cut down version of the Marketplace Morning Report - you can find the usually about 15 minute version at www.marketplace.org. I usually turn the radio off so that I don't ruin the surprise when I listen to the long version later in the day.

You can get your local news in half an hour with KOMO. It's canned and corporate, and a bit right wing, but there you go. The best KUOW could do with the morning news is a shred of what KOMO does with it each morning.