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Episodes
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Ways to give amid spiking food insecurity: money, food, time
‘Last year, 1.1 million Washingtonians had turned to a food pantry for hunger relief and food assistance. This year, we expect that that number has doubled to 2.2 million, or approximately a third of our state.’
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'What else can we do?' Seattle business owners say this lockdown is worse than last
Seattle business owners say this lockdown worse than the last.
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Senator Murray on the need for Covid relief, and the concession-less transition
‘We're in this really struggling position that is frustrating to every one of us living through it.’
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Council passes 2021 Seattle budget, policing cuts included
“We're going to slowly and systematically, as much as we can, redirect funds from the Seattle Police Department to upstream programs.”
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The great pandemic migration is not what people expected
The pandemic has changed so many things about the way people work. Tech workers, in particular, have discovered they can do their jobs from anywhere. Small towns are trying to attract tech talent from cities like Seattle. But that hasn't resulted in the "great migration" some people expected.
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Pacific Northwest needs 4 new cities on undeveloped land, report says
Imagine new high rises – above the Pacific Northwest’s small communities like Burlington and Centralia. That may sound far-fetched, but it might be necessary if we’re going to accommodate all the people moving here in decades to come, according to a new report by the Cascadia Innovation Corridor.
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Lessons from the last time Seattle let its pandemic guard down, in 1918
We'll take a look back now to more than a century ago on the dangers of letting our guard down over the holidays. During the 1918 flu pandemic, Seattle put in place some tight restrictions on masking and gathering. The decisions that followed were catastrophic. So writes Knute Birger, Editor-at-large for Crosscut.
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A different Thanksgiving this year for Seattle's unsheltered community
People in Seattle experiencing homelessness are also making changes ahead of a pandemic holiday season. The traditional large meals are cancelled, but that’s not stopping the holiday spirit.
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Border officials lied about targeted stops of Iranian Americans back in January
Last January, 277 people, many of them U.S. citizens or permanent residents with Iranian heritage or ties to the Middle East, were stopped by border agents, records obtained by the Council for American Islamic Relations in Washington and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project found.
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Testing slots gobbled up by those wanting negative Covid tests for Thanksgiving
Negative coronavirus tests are the new golden ticket. Get one, lay low for a week, and you can spend Thanksgiving with your relatives indoors.
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Thanksgiving plans squashed. Don't be a turkey, health experts say
The holidays are going to look different this year with all the Covid restrictions. We asked what people are planning, and what safe holidays could look like.
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U.S.-Canada border closure likely to be 'with us for a while'
The most recent extension of the U.S.-Canada border closure expires this Friday, November 21, but no one expects the restrictions to be lifted then....