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Turnout is up for tackle football, including for middle school students. Interest in flag football is luke warm..
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What happens when people stop trusting their government's economic data? Planet Money's Mary Childs reports on what happened in Greece.
Arts & Culture
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Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of streaming documentary features that focus on well-known public figures from the past—TV host Ed Sullivan in Netflix’s “Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan,” and Jayne Mansfield in HBO Max’s “My Mom Jayne.” -
Joey Quintana, a.k.a. Banjoey, joins host Henry McNulty in the studio to preview his upcoming concert at Stage Left Theater in Spokane. -
Spokane Children's Theatre joined host Henry McNulty in the studio to discuss their teen camp production of "Legally Blonde."
Events
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EventsAugust's Free SPR Kids' Concert features sister-duo, Dry and Dusty in the River Park Square Atrium Saturday, August 23rd at 1 pm -
Join SPR Staff, Hosts, and Volunteers at Art on the Green 2025 -
SPR was a media partner for the 2025 Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival
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An Episcopal priest founded a Christian psychedelic society and was later stripped of his ordination -- raising moral, ethical and spiritual questions about psychedelics and spirituality.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly, who has covered her share of high stakes diplomatic meetings between some of the world's most powerful people, spoke with Scott Detrow about what was different during the recent Trump-Putin Alaska Summit.
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The Kitchen Sisters production team takes a look into the long held Scottish tradition of honesty boxes - where you leave the money in the box and take what you need.
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Editor-in-chief of Restaurant Business magazine Jonathan Maze discusses this summer's chicken wrap trend.
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As Israel prepares for another major military offensive in Gaza, a new report says Gaza is in the grip of a full-blown famine. Will Israel accept a ceasefire deal or attack Gaza's biggest urban hub?
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Months after his explosive meeting at the White House, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned this week wearing a black blazer. His dress last time invited criticism from Trump supporters. -
The Department of Justice has been in the news all week, both over its handling of the Epstein investigation and its search of a home of Trump's former national security adviser.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell received a standing ovation in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday. Powell said the central bank could soon resume cutting interest rates.
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NPR's Scott Simon talks with Politico's Ankush Khardori about what legal checks remain as the Trump administration flexes presidential power.
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Israeli forces are telling Gaza City doctors to move their clinics south ahead of a massive attack.
