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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) – With a vote scheduled for Tuesday, Spokane County is preparing to transition to a new medical provider at the downtown jail as the current company faces lawsuits across the country. If approved, MEDIKO Correctional Healthcare will replace NaphCare in February 2026 after the outgoing provider had agreed to stay on temporarily through the transition. The current contract would’ve gone through 2028, but NaphCare told the Board of County Commissioners in June
(The Center Square) – More than seven years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, the Freedom Foundation has announced that it has directly helped a quarter of a million public employees nationwide opt out of union membership. In the 2018 Janus decision, the Supreme Court ruled that public-sector employees cannot be forced to pay union fees as a condition of their employment, striking down a previous precedent and finding such
(The Center Square) – Ahead of upcoming premium hikes, a report published Monday ranked Spokane as the ninth-highest city nationwide for where people spend the most on health care and basic medications. According to personal finance website WalletHub, Spokane is the only Northwest city to land in the top 10. The study compared the costs of doctor, dentist and optometrist visits with the prices of ibuprofen and insulin across some of the largest cities nationwide.
(The Center Square) – The massacre at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, over the weekend did not keep members of the Seattle Jewish community from turning out in large numbers Sunday evening at the city’s oldest synagogue to celebrate the beginning of the Jewish holiday. Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, or BCMH, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue in the Seward Park neighborhood. KVI Seattle Talk Show Host Ari Hoffman is
