Kirby Wilbur's “Good Guy or Gal With a Gun”

Good Guy & Gal With (a) Gun(s) stories include a dad who has to confront his daughter's ex, Chicago rideshare driver may lose job (its called a driver disarmament policy) but used gun to defend himself from robbers at 1am,
How Seattle crime is becoming like a cancer for suburban Puget Sound

KVI's Kirby Wilbur, subbing for John Carlson, compares the growth in crime problems that are now hitting suburban areas of Seattle.
I-5 “lid” in Seattle moves forward

KVI's Kirby Wilbur and Phil Vandervort examine the push for an Interstate-5 lid to cover the freeway lanes north of the Seattle Convention Center. The plan that could cost between $1-$2.5 billion would create a large park and/or subsidized housing is intended to connect the Capitol Hill neighborhood to the South Lake Union neighborhood currently divided by I-5. According to KIRO 7 News, the Seattle City Council’s Public Assets and Homeless Committee voted to approve Resolution 32100, which supports the development of lids across I-5. The vote was 3-0 with two abstentions.
September 5, 2023: Are we back in 2020?

The View declares Covid is 'back' after Whoopi Goldberg tests positive and First lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19 for second time // Seattle on track to break all-time-high after city tops 50 murders in 2023 // DeSantis Slams Climate Alarmists, Saying That Adopting Leftist Policies Will Stop Hurricanes ‘Is A Lie’ // Elon Musk threatens to sue ADL for allegedly trying to ‘kill’ X/Twitter by 'falsely accusing' antisemitism // Washington's average gas price over $1.25 more than national average and 'Ferrymageddon' starts Thursday on Bainbridge Island. Here's what you need to know // Victim has throat slashed in yet another Portland attack, suspect stabs 2nd victim same night // Dave Workman asks Washington Anti-Gunners: Why Aren’t You Pushing To Ban Cars? // Man beats elderly woman with her own cane in NYC subway for 2 full minutes while onlookers film but do not help // Former student who was ‘deprogrammed’ after college slams woke education - Turning Point USA Ambassador Annabella Rockwell joins Ari to discuss the details
Annabella Rockwell was ‘deprogrammed’ after college, slams woke education

Former Mount Holyoke student Annabella Rockwell says she was taught by the liberal college that she was a victim of patriarchal oppression and underwent 'deprogramming' after graduation. She joins Ari to discuss the details
September 5, 2023 w/ Kirby Wilbur

6am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: starting off with a positive story about a military Cobra helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War being honored this month for heroic rescue in 1968, FLOTUS has COVID, the WA Dept. of Ecology being sued over the Inslee "cap and invest" law regarding fuel prices, the painful and tragic story of a 19-yr-old man shot and killed at a late night gathering at a Puyallup park, several stories of violence and crime over the weekend for PDX light rail "Max" train system.
7am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: Biden Administration new transportation bureaucrat thinks that cars are essentially racist amid policy to be more equitable, the Biden Admin. plan is clearly about control like COVID, Fauci resurfaces to say that masks don't make a difference on COVID, a COVID prediction to watch for Fall 2023/ early 2024, is anything tangible being done about WA fentanyl crisis or are elected officials just continuing "meetings" instead of solving the problems?
8am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: a British news publication asks the hypothetical question about extra-terrestrial life and earth climate change, 1609 scientists sign declaration that there is no imminent "climate emergency" which counter some of the continuing claims made by elected officials like WA Gov. Jay Inslee, news from the campaign to replace Kshama Sawant on the Seattle City Council, three celebrity musical deaths over the Labor Day weekend including Jimmy Buffet, WA taxpayers are now subsidizing the purchase of e-bikes to the tune of $5 million in taxpayer money.
Prediction: political left will finger-wag about COVID while ignoring fentanyl

Here's a prediction for Fall 2023: public health and government officials will spend an exponentially greater amount of time politicking for COVID vaccines and masks while ignoring the same concerns connected to fentanyl abuse, over-doses and deaths. And in the end, when we get into 2024 in 6 or 7 months, the human deaths and suffering from fentanyl will be exponentially greater than deaths and hospitalizations from anything related to COVID.
No tangible progress on WA fentanyl crisis

Kirby Wilbur subs for KVI's John Carlson this morning and asks if anything tangible is being done about WA fentanyl crisis or are elected officials just continuing "meetings" instead of solving the problems? An example of an arrested fetanyl dealer awaiting trial. The Chinese/Mexico production/trafficking connection to fentanyl in WA.
August 1, 2023: Democratic policies lead to disaster

An illegal alien, released into the United States in 2022 after arriving at the nation’s southern border, is now charged with killing 11-year-old Aiden Clark // 'No rules playground': Seattle records 50th homicide of the year, on pace for record high // The latest jobs report is out and it's bad - so why are Democrats celebrating? // Iranian weightlifter banned for life after shaking hands with Israeli opponent // Washington health officials keep trying to make the rona happen again // We have an update on the psycho killer that escaped an Oregon hospital // GUEST: Rep Dan Griffey // Fake News Friday! // Lars Unleashed!
September 1, 2023 show

6am SWEEP -- CBS News reporter admits Florida response to big hurricane this week was "quick" and efficient,
JUST IN: the ACC votes to bring in Stanford and Cal-Berkeley for NCAA sports thus leaving 2 remaining Pac-12 teams (WSU and OSU) without a league, a warning about Seattle voting demographics, which one of these 3 people in Seattle has a better grasp on the homeless situation?
7am hour -- Seattle on pace for deadliest year on record with 50th murder confirmed yesterday, Burien group starts new group with a potent video message for frustrated residents, copper wire thefts keep knocking out 911 service in Woodinville, a Pierce Co. judge allows an accused police assault suspect to go free with no bail and the female suspect has already missed a court appointed release follow-up, AG Bob Ferguson ignores WA's Sanctuary State status and then asks the Feds for extra law enforcement help to address flood of fentanyl.
8am hour -- The "kabuki theater" with the latest WA school teachers strike in Camas, the irony of the strike in the midst of Biden-inflation, as teachers strike remember this: Seattle Police have been working without a labor contract for several years, "the climate trance" and Gov. Jay Inslee.