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Mike Tice on Hard Knocks, the Seahawks' Opener, and Giving Back to Thurston County (opens the original)
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Taped on 9/8/2026 at the 1889 Prime Steakhouse in Downtown Olympia, Washington, Jeff Slakey talked with Mike Tice, former Seahawk and former Minnesota Vikings head coach, as the Seahawks open the regular season at Lumen Field in a rematch of last year's Super Bowl. Kickoff's at 5:20, with our pregame starting at 3 on KMAS. Tice spent 14 years playing in the NFL, 130 games with Seattle, and 21 years coaching, including four seasons as the Vikings' head coach. We got into what it's really like hav
"We May Be Going Backwards in Time": Mason County's Public Health Director on Rural Health Funding Cuts (opens the original)
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Mason County Public Health Director Dave Windom sits down with Jeff Slakey from KMAS for an update after weeks of budget discussions in front of the county commissioners, and the picture is a difficult one. Windom lays out where his department's money actually comes from, and why state-level constraints on foundational public health funding are leaving Mason County short somewhere between $800,000 and a million dollars. Most of it has been absorbed through retirements and unfilled positions, the
Olympia Author Joe Fuller on "8th Street," His Own Recovery, and the Musical Born From Intervention (opens the original)
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Author and playwright Joe Fuller joins Jeff Slakey at Lions Park in Olympia for two conversations in one. First: his book "8th Street," a collection of short stories and poetry about growing up in a big Catholic family in Olympia, Knights of Columbus, St. Michael’s School, and the kind of free-range childhood a lot of South Sound listeners will recognize. Joe talks about how a chance visit with fellow local author Dick Pust during the pandemic pushed him to finally publish stories he’d been writ
"How Do They Get Out of Their Own Way?" Outgoing Mason County EDC Director Kevin Shutty on What the New County Commission Has to Fix (opens the original)
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Kevin Shutty is leaving the Mason County Economic Development Council at the end of the month, and before he goes he sits down with Jeff Slakey from KMAS for a wide-ranging look back at two and a half years, and a pointed look forward at what the county has to get right next. Shutty, who came to the EDC from the Mason County Commission, says the arrow keeps pointing up for Mason County: the community landed in the top 10 nationally for growth among communities its size, and he describes an organ
Mason County Sheriff Ryan Spurling: Summer Growth, Restructuring & a 50% Drop in Neighborhood Crime (opens the original)
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This month's Sheriff Sit-Down, brought to you by Our Community Credit Union, finds Mason County Sheriff Ryan Spurling walking through the biggest changes the department has faced in generations. With the county's population reportedly tripling each summer, Sperling starts with how deputies are handling the seasonal traffic surge before diving into a major internal restructuring: two new lieutenant positions, four open sergeant slots, and a shift of detectives, neighborhood watch, DARE, school re
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