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GUEST: economist Steve Moore explains the important and unimportant aspects about the US credit rating getting downgraded this week, how the debt ceiling standoff a few weeks ago factors in to this new credit downgrading, "who is the honest umpire" of economic stability or resilience?

TJ Martinell joins Ari to to discuss his latest investigative story regarding the State Attorney General's Office

6am hour -- Seattle City Attorney issues two shutdown orders against motels on north Aurora Ave. for chronic crime problems, a compare and contrast of two Puget Sound criminal bail cases, climate change alarmism now boosted by "flash study", GUEST: candidate for US Senate in Washington, Raul Garcia M.D., confronts opponent Maria Cantwell over the sorry state of medical staffing and available hospital beds in WA, KVI's Lars Larson addresses the vicious attack on a Portland female doctor beaten in random attack.

7am -- WSJ story on the growth in home schooling as public schools have to correct or acknowledge their COVID restrictions, the Pac-12 conference is teetering on the edge of dissolution and the fate of the league will be decided by UW and Oregon,

8am hour -- a guest stands up KVI for an interview over her opposition to the Blue Angels flying in Seattle for SeaFair because of climate change, GUEST: economist Steve Moore explains the important and unimportant about US credit rating getting downgraded this week, how the debt ceiling standoff a few weeks ago factors in to this new credit downgrading, "who is the honest umpire" of economic stability or resilience?

GUEST: candidate for US Senate in Washington, Raul Garcia M.D., confronts opponent Maria Cantwell over the lack of medical staffing and available hospital beds in WA, KVI's Lars Larson addresses the vicious attack on a Portland female doctor beaten in random attack.

Today is our annual Wishes in Flight mileage drive to benefit Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington // CNN’s analyst Michael Fanone calls Donald Trump a “terrorist,” compares him to Osama Bin Laden // Mother of 14-year-old hit and killed by Seattle Monorail says he was a kind soul who loved his artwork // MSNBC Doctor Says It's Time To Start Wearing COVID Face Masks Again // Man Who Spent $14k To Become Collie Goes For First Walk In Public; Bud Light parent company lost $390 MILLION since Dylan Mulvaney marketing disaster // GUEST: Jeff Pohjola, Reporter and host of the Northwest Politicast joins Ari to talk about the vote to recall Semi Bird candidate from the Richland School Board // Ron DeSantis Accepts Gavin Newsom's Challenge to Debate on Fox News // Friendly Face-Off With Batya Ungar-Sargon // According to Kamala Harris: "Our small business leaders are leaders in business and they are also civic leaders! And community leaders!"

GUEST: Alex Clark, Turning Point USA and Host of The Spillover joins Ari to discuss her take on the Barbie movie and her view that Conservatives saying the movie is woke are lying to you and probably never saw the movie! Did Ben Shapiro even watch the same movie as us?

Make wishes soar for children with critical illnesses.

Be part of our Wishes in Flight Mileage Drive benefitting Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington now through August 3. Donate miles or donate dollars. Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Wish kids need your help now, more than ever. Right now, more than 600 children are waiting for their wishes to be granted. You can help make their wishes a reality.

For many of these kids, a wish marks a turning point in their treatment or illness. Wishes give children hope and joy.

Wishes give children the opportunity to imagine life outside the walls of a hospital. You can transport them to the destination of their dreams.

Northwest Newsradio’s Brian Calvert shares inspirational stories, including a young Northwest hockey fan, and how his dream to go pro came true, a local girl who not only received a special gift…but was part of a Make-A-Wish milestone, a young Northwest boy, who almost wasn’t able to see his wish come true, and the story of a kid whose wish wouldn’t be granted until he reached adulthood

Visit wishesinflight.akwa.wish.org to help

6am hour -- today is KVI's annual "Wishes in Flight" fundraiser, GUEST: Melissa Arias, president and CEO, Make-A-Wish Alaska and Washington urges listener to contribute, if Trump can be charged for interfering in an election why not Georgia's Stacy Abrams?, Seattle's brick throwing suspect who allegedly smashed an ambulance windshield moved to Seattle 9-months ago from out of state, KVI's Lars Larson previews his interview with an Oregon woman who's now being denied cancer care treatment because she questioned or criticized a transgender flag at the clinic office.

7am hour -- the medical ethics of kicking out a cancer care patient over objections to a transgender flag, today is KVI's "Wishes In Flight" fundraiser that helps collect frequent flier miles to provide travel for kids with dire medical illness get their wish, the city of Shoreline is cutting down 25 mature trees but nobody's climbing those trees to block their removal, new data shows Puget Sound residents ready to move out because they feel unsafe in their neighborhood, the new polling says the felt inclined to move because their neighborhood seemed unsafe.

8am hour -- GUEST: Jeannette Tarcha, VP communications and marketing with Make A Wish Alaska and Washington tells KVI "medicine treats the body, Make-A-Wish treats the soul", a pair of Seattle women want SeaFair to stop the Blue Angels flights because of climate change, Ron DeSantis has accepted a debate challenge by Gavin Newsome.

New data shows Puget Sound residents are ready to move out because they feel unsafe in their neighborhood. The polling that comes from the US Census Bureau in July says Seattle metro residents felt pressure to move because their neighborhood seemed unsafe. KVI's John Carlson compares the new polling with a pair of crime stories in Bellevue.

California Governor, Gavin Newsome, has challenged Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis, to a debate. DeSantis has accepted the offer, now we gotta see if both sides follow through.