Oct 30, 2019 | Feature, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
How do you talk to kids about death? Author Caroline Wright wondered the same thing when she was diagnosed with an aggressive, terminal brain cancer as a mother to her young sons. Now, having lived a year past her prognosis and written a children’s book to help...
Oct 28, 2019 | Feature, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
We are in an age of distraction. We are inundated with distractions all the time. Is there anything harder these days than to do nothing? And what would that mean if we did do nothing? Are there ways to reclaim our own attention and redefine what we think of as...
Oct 28, 2019 | Feature, Interview/Conversation, Town Crier
We’re poised for ‘The Big One.’ ‘The Big One’ being an earthquake. Remember that New Yorker story about what will happen when an earthquake hits the Northwest? The subhead of that story: “An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The...
Oct 25, 2019 | Feature, Featured, Town Crier
We hear you. We really do. Parking in this city can be a bear and Town Hall is situated smack dab in the middle of the city on First Hill at 1119 8th Avenue with construction continuing on our block as they build a new park and a pair of elegant apartment towers next...
Oct 24, 2019 | Listening Guide, Town Crier
In this week’s interview, Town Hall’s own Haley Fenton talks with Timothy Wise about agribusiness and the future of food. Wise outlines the control that corporations like Monsanto have over small-scale farms worldwide. He delves into the profit-motivated...