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You’ve heard him for the past 14 years as a KVI voice on The Commute with Carlson and now Phil Vandervort takes over as the host of KVI’s Morning Ride. Join Phil and his producer, Zach Wildfang, every weekday morning from 6-9, to bring you the day’s first insight into the top local and political stories that impact your life, your town and your wallet so we can Make Washington Livable Again. The Morning Ride is fast-paced, filled with guest interviews from local leaders and politicians along with nationally respected voices like economist, Steve Moore, to give you unique insight that you won’t hear anywhere else. Phil Vandervort is a life-long Puget Sound resident. Born in Tacoma and living in Seattle since 1994, Phil has worked in Seattle talk radio since 1997 at Seattle’s biggest stations and with Seattle’s most well-known talk show hosts like John Carlson and the dearly departed, Dori Monson and John Clayton. Phil and his wife have been married for 26 years and have a 17-year-old son. Off the air, Phil’s interests include finding new bands and music, playing bass guitar, going to local concerts (has he told you about The Sheepdogs?), staying healthy with exercise that’s easy on the knees--especially snow skiing--and grilling meat.
(The Center Square) – As Christine Finch helped her father, Graham Finch, gather his luggage at the San Francisco International Airport, she was worried about how flight delays caused by the federal shutdown would affect their travel plans. “Am I going to be able to get Dad home?” Christine said of her first thought when hearing about the impending flight delays. Christine, who is flying her father home to New Zealand, said she’s also worried
(The Center Square) – Downtown business leaders are voicing concerns after the Spokane City Council eyed a new 12% parking tax on Monday, with little notice, and a vote already slated for later this month. Emilie Cameron, president of the Downtown Spokane Partnership, emailed a letter to the officials and their staff on Monday. It hit their inboxes just a few hours before Jon Snyder, the city’s transportation and sustainability director, presented Mayor Lisa Brown’s
(The Center Square) – Gov. Bob Ferguson has still not announced a final decision on his directive concerning the auto-deletion of government agency internal communications, despite his self-imposed six-month deadline having passed in August. As previously reported by The Center Square, in February, Ferguson put a six-month pause on the auto-deletion of Teams messages for state agencies. The pause was ordered after a review following a $225,000 settlement with the Department of Children, Youth &
(The Center Square) – Seattle Public Schools is set to hire Ben Shuldiner, current superintendent of the Lansing School District in Michigan, as the next leader of Washington state’s largest school district. On Wednesday, the Seattle School Board unanimously authorized contract negotiations with Shuldiner to finalize hiring him. Candidate identities were kept confidential throughout the process, per state law RCW 42.56.230, to protect the privacy of those currently in leadership roles at other districts, as
