Seattle's first class news and public affairs radio station KUOW 94.9 offers two feeds of internet radio streaming:

http://www.kuow.org/listen_live.html

and

http://www.kuow.org/kuow2.html

Or, you can choose to listen to the similarly first class Jazz and Blues station KPLU, found online at:

http://www.kplu.org/whatson/indexlisten.cgi

These two radio stations play the soundtrack to my everyday existence.