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Episodes
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Seattle Now: How to cope with election anxiety
Here we are on election day, but rarely in this country has it felt so loaded. Political divisions, the pandemic and above all the uncertainty of the future. So we called up Seattle therapist Roy Fisher to get some ideas about how to get through the election and whatever happens next.
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Seattle Now: WA's Obama-Trump vote
Five counties flipped from blue to red in 2016, and the reason why could tell us how the next election will go.
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Marcus Green + Zaki Hamid
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with founder of the South Seattle Emerald Marcus Green and KUOW's Director of Community Engagement Zaki Hamid.
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Seattle Now: Eastern Washington's weary Republican voters
Seattle is a blue political bubble, where it can be tough being a Republican. In eastern Washington, voters lean more conservative. But the Spokesman Review reluctantly endorsed President Trump and many Republicans seem dispirited.
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Seattle Now: Students left behind by online learning
More than a month into the online school year, it's clear many students are struggling. Students with disabilities have been largely left behind.
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Seattle Now: How the Google antitrust case impacts Seattle tech
The Department of Justice and 11 states are suing Google. They say Google Search is anticompetitive and hurts consumers. Here in Seattle, the lawsuit will be watched closely by the tech sector. Not least by Amazon.
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Seattle Now: Politics is in for young voters
Years of youth-led protests over climate change, gun control and policing have ignited a new generation of voters. Now young people are turning up at the polls in record numbers.
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Tan Vinh + Melissa Hellmann
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Seattle Times food writer Tan Vinh and Melissa Hellmann, who covers South Seattle for the Seattle Times.
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Seattle Now: Preparing for the dark months ahead
The third wave of Coronavirus is upon us. As winter approaches, we’re grappling with the prospect of darker days, in this time of social distance. The impending isolation is hitting home in the mountain communities of the North Cascades.
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Seattle Now: How's our transit system holding up?
Our transit budget may have dodged a bullet in the defeat of I 976, but Covid is creating financial and safety problems for busses and light rail.
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Seattle Now: The Covid recession is a women's recession
Women are leaving the workforce in droves since the pandemic kicked in. 865,000 women exited work in September alone. With schools across Seattle closed because of Covid, women are picking up the extra slack at home.
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Seattle Now: Conspiracy theories are on the ballot
President Trump has been challenged for sharing information about far-fetched conspiracy theories, but he's far from the only politician doing so. Conspiracies and misinformation are showing up in elections all over Washington.