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A smart, daily podcast for a curious city. Seattle Now brings you quick, informal, and hyper-local news updates every weekday.
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Friday Evening Headlines
Chaos erupts at state GOP convention, UW researchers make an autism discovery, and environmentalists urge federal officials to save a pair of NW species. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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Casual Friday with Zaki Hamid and Clare McGrane
This week… Some well-loved Seattle businesses are coming back from the dead as co-ops or collectives. Residents of the town of Carnation came to Seattle to say they’re fed up with false alarms at the Seattle-run Tolt River Dam. And you’ve heard of the Seattle Freeze… but are you Seattle Smug? KUOW’s Director of Community Engagement Zaki Hamid and Seattle Now Producer Clare McGrane are here to break down the week.
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Thursday Evening Headlines
Campaign to repeal WA's climate law facing official opposition, Mayor Harrell proposes law to demolish unsafe, vacant buildings, and the Seattle Storm unveil their new training facility. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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Searching for Seattle’s 15 minute neighborhoods
City planners want Seattle to become a “15 minute city” – where you can walk to everything you need in your neighborhood.
Well now there’s a new interactive map that can tell you just how walkable your neighborhood is.
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Wednesday Evening Headlines
Senate hears testimony on Boeing's eroding safety culture, Seattle's facing a massive budget hole, and SIFF unveils the lineup for its 50th film festival. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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Black Panthers in Seattle turn to the next chapter
The Black Panther Party’s Seattle chapter is drumming up new plans, more than 40 years after it disbanded. A group devoted to preserving Black Panther history plans to open a museum in Pioneer Square early next year, bringing attention to the ways the Panthers influenced Seattle then, and still do now. Seattle Times Race and Equity Reporter Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks is here to tell us about it, with some help from Elmer Dixon, a founding member of Seattle’s Black Panther chapter.
Customer Reviews
Love the new evening episodes
Really enjoying the evening episodes. Good work!
Bite-sized news!
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Ceasefire Now
i listen to this podcast every week day morning. i’m confused how northbound traffic was blocked on i-5 for HOURS on saturday calling for a ceasefire in gaza and end to the genocide of palestinians and y’all didn’t mention it at all? “every time the media lies, another palestinian dies.”