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Here’s what those on social media had to say about the “Paddle in Seattle.”

A judge has decided not to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to take out 10,000 of the seabird species in the Columbia River estuary.

Why all the ire for these birds? Essentially they’re capable of killing and eating millions of baby salmon, which would put a noticeable dent in the supply for fishing and human consumption.

³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Dori Monson, who enjoyed observing the cormorants when he had a house on the Columbia, doesn’t like the plan.

“Isn’t this part of our ecosystem? I feel bad for these birds,” Monson said. “What they’re saying is it’s more important that we humans get to kill the salmon. We have to save the salmon so we can kill them, and as a result we gotta kill the birds that would otherwise eat the salmon.

“Is it OK to shoot 10,000 of them just to save the salmon so that we can kill the salmon?”

It’s a perplexing question. In the end, the salmon will be eaten, whether it’s by birds or humans. Should the birds be taken out of the equation to ensure humans can continue their usual consumption of the tasty fish?

While the plan is in place, at least for now the eradication of the double-crested cormorants isn’t a done deal.

“Conservation groups signed a preliminary injunction. They say dams kill more salmon than the double-crested cormorant,” Monson said.

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“It was all just good old fashioned police work,” Michaud said. “It took a while to be able to link him back to these things, but with the public’s help and being able to put the drawings of the suspect that we had months ago, we were able to finally get a good lead on this guy.”

A search warrant was served at the man’s home in the on Friday night, and he was arrested without incident, Michaud said.

It has a name &#8212 cryptomnesia &#8212 and ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Tom Tangney describes it like this: “There’s an idea kicking around in the air, you didn’t come up with the original idea, you’ve heard it and then a week or two later suddenly you come up with this great idea and it turns out that it wasn’t an original idea.”

New York Magazine’s recent article, has brought this phenomenon to the forefront, and while the more famous examples are in entertainment, like the to “He’s So Fine” by The Chiffons, it’s not uncommon in the workplace.

“That’s why you have to put your name on any idea &#8212 and when you do come up with something, it’s important that the boss knows,” said John Curley.

To hear the “Tom and Curley” conversation on the topic from Tuesday morning, including tips to keep people from lifting your ideas, listen to the

A 40-year-old stabbing victim was transported from the 400 block of Second Avenue to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition, the .

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Noted mountaineer and Seattle resident Ed Viesturs, who has climbed Everest himself, talked to ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Ron and Don on Monday about the disastrously bad timing of the quake for climbers.

“This is the height of the Himalayan climbing season,” Viesturs said. “When this earthquake occurred, it released a torrent of snow and ice avalanches from neighboring peaks, and that torrent of avalanche snow decimated part of base camp and a number of people were killed at base camp, which is normally considered a haven of safety.”

The death toll from the earthquake has climbed past 4,000. Buildings in parts of Kathmandu were reduced to rubble, and there were shortages of food, fuel, electricity and shelter on Monday.

“They don’t have the funds. They don’t have the resources,” Viesturs said. “They’ve never had the standards that we do to build things that are earthquake-proof. This is a country that has a history of huge earthquakes.”

The full Viesturs interview is included in the podcast above.

“I just want my daughter comfortable going to school,” Geiger said.

Patience was having breakfast at Broadview Thomson Elementary on April 6 when the mother of another student, who was eating with the kids, showed the girl a knife and said she was going to cut her tongue off.

According to Geiger, the parent admitted to school officials that the incident happened, but maintained she was only kidding around. Geiger doesn’t buy that it was a harmless joke, nor is she happy the parent was only given a warning and is still allowed on school property.

The threat continues to have an effect on Patience, who Geiger said is now suffering from nightmares and hasn’t been to school since the incident.

Not satisfied with how the situation has been handled, Geiger organized a protest that she said drew 30 to 35 people Monday.

“I would like the school or somebody from the district to reach out to me.”

Pierce County Detective Ed Troyer told ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Ron and Don that there was no indication that David Annis would return to murder his wife, Regina Annas, after police initially acted out a protection order.

“He was cooperative and he took his personal belongings and he left. He didn’t show any indication or signs of being angry or mad,” Troyer said.

A female friend was also shot in the incident, though she is expected to recover.

Where the story gets tricky is that while Regina Annas wanted a divorce, the couple didn’t have a history of assaults or violence.

“These restraining orders get filed every day and hundreds and hundreds of times they work … In this particular case there were no actual assaults in the past, there were no indications of anything being that violent, let alone a minor assault,” Troyer said. “When somebody leaves cooperatively and they look like they’re going to go do the right thing and (then) come back five hours later, there just really isn’t going to be a way to stop that. She didn’t even ever convey that she thought he was even capable of doing something like that. She basically just said that he frightened her and didn’t want to be around it anymore.”

Medved provided an update on his battle with throat cancer, including how much he has improved since his chemotherapy treatments and how close he is to returning to the air, while talking with Tomlin. To listen to the 26-minute conversation, click here.

The cartoon depicts Kaden Lum as an angel and Uncle Sam as the devil with two handguns and the phrase “America’s gun culture” written on his jacket.

Rantz: Cartoon exploits dead child for political points

Priggee defended the cartoon in an interview with ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Jason Rantz, who took issue with the drawing.

“A cartoon is a simple machine to make the reader think, not joke,” Priggee said. “It’s not a comic strip, it’s not entertainment, and this is where newspapers have fallen down. They have not taken any kind of opportunity to educate the public because a lot of times people come to an editorial cartoon and they say, ‘Well there’s nothing funny about this. Why is this in the newspaper?'”

In this particular case, Priggee’s aim was to get readers to think critically about America’s gun culture, something he believes is a problem on both sides of the political spectrum.

“On one side, we have a bunch of liberals that don’t care, and then on the other side, you have people that are blocking whatever little improvement could be made on tightening up whatever,” he said. “The problem is that we, as a society, are not discussing it enough. That was the intention of the cartoon.”

From Rantz’s perspective, though, Priggee’s cartoons that address the gun issue only tell one side of the story.

“I see about 80 different drawings on your website (about guns) … You go after the gun lobby, you blame the actual gun, you mock gun owners as stupid, you mock accidents that have happened,” Rantz said. “I understand that you’re actually trying to make a point. You’ve taken the stance that you are trying to go after all the issues surrounding America’s gun culture, but it seems like you’re only going after the people who support the right to bear arms.”

Rantz isn’t the only critic of the Priggee cartoon – Lum’s grandfather, Jason Trammell, told KING 5 that it was “in very bad taste” and “not in line with honoring my grandson’s memory.” And for that, Priggee is understanding.

“I am sorry they are hurt,” he said. “I hope they would see it my way. Obviously they don’t.”

The airline has released a statement:

“Immediately after takeoff, the pilot of Alaska Airlines flight 448, bound for Los Angeles, reported hearing banging from beneath the aircraft. The captain immediately returned to Seattle, declaring an emergency for priority landing. The aircraft was in the air for 14 minutes”

Alaska Airlines said that the agent, an employee of Menzies Aviation, told authorities he had fallen asleep as he exited the aircraft from the front cargo hold.

The cargo hold is pressurized and temperature controlled, according to Alaska.

The worker appeared OK but was taken to a hospital as a precaution.

The airline says it’s investigating.

The 26-year-old Fodor lost a unanimous judges decision to fellow welterweight Emmanuel Walo after three rounds Friday night. The more experienced Walo, 28, used his superior wrestling skills to earn the win, scoring numerous takedowns throughout the contest to improve to 8-2 as a pro.

The fight, which was held in Ledyard, Conn., was the first outside of Washington state for Fodor. Though it was his seventh professional MMA fight, it was easily his most high-profile bout to date, airing live on the NBC Sports Network. It was also his first professional defeat, dropping his record to 5-1-1.

Jack Chen, a 40-year-old dentist in Renton, was stopping by the site in Mercer Island where he was having a new house built when a section of wall came down on him Wednesday night.

The story resonates with Monson, who remembers the excitement he had while watching his own family’s dream house throughout construction.

“This just illustrates the fragility of life,” Monson said. “You go from this incredibly exciting time – you have a wife, you’ve got two little kids, you’ve been diligent enough to build a dental practice after all the years of education – and then, boom, like that, gone. It’s a horrifying story to me.”

Mercer Island Police Detective Joe Morris talked to Monson on Friday about the incident.

“It’s my understanding that he stopped by with a friend to show the friend the property,” Morris said. “It appears that the contractors were attempting to put up a section of wall and it was apparently a little bit too heavy for them. When they decided it was time to put down the wall and get out of the way they communicated that amongst themselves … However they weren’t aware, it appears, that the homeowner was right by them at the time.”

The sudden and tragic nature of the incident is having an impact on all involved.

“It’s a horrible tragedy for everyone,” Morris said. “The workers, they were able to get the man out from underneath (the wall) and they began CPR, and that was followed by the responding units that arrived. I think it shook everybody.”

A group called Freedom for All traveled to Olympia on Saturday, the day after a Chinese delegation visited with Governor Jay Inslee, and succeeded in getting the flag taken down.

³ÉÈËXÕ¾ Radio’s Dori Monson was happy to see that a group of people was not only willing to stand up for its beliefs, but was actually successful in telling the government what to do.

“I’m fascinated by this because they actually succeeded,” Monson said Tuesday. “Even though somebody in the highest level of state government ordered that flag flown, a bunch of citizens succeeded in getting it taken down, and that doesn’t happen very often where the citizens actually are in charge. But that’s the way it should be. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with how outraged these guys were over the communist Chinese flag flying over the state capitol, I just think it’s cool that some people are still willing, able and successful in standing up for what they believe.”

Anthony Bosworth, a member of Freedom for All, talked to Monson about the group’s issue with the flag. For Bosworth, the fact that China is the Washington’s No. 1 trading partner does not make up for its oppressive government.

“It’s an enemy in belief. China stands for everything that America does not stand for,” Bosworth said. “We don’t believe in oppression of people’s rights, we don’t believe in oppression of people’s liberty of freedom.”