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Episodes
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Seattle Now: 'Phase 2 wasn't a big success'
If we ever hope to get back to school, and the movies and all the other things we want to do we need to take steps now to slow COVID-19 transmission. Because flu season is coming.
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Keita Williams & Eric Rivera
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Keita Williams Founder and Chief Strategist of Success Bully and Eric Rivera, chef and owner of Addo in Ballard. Support the show by making a gift to KUOW: bit.ly/seattlenow
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Seattle Now: How we can fix the pandemic
The US response to the Covid pandemic was an epic failure. But it's not too late
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Seattle Now: Pod's in session
Seattle Public Schools students are headed back to remote class in just over two weeks. But without a formal plan from the district, some parents are thinking about alternatives. One idea: in-person "learning pods." Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka tells us about how some families are preparing.
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Seattle Now: Post office drama hits Washington
The Postal Service is locked in a political drama over access to mail in ballots. What does it mean for Washington voters?
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What's the plan for all these empty offices?
Offices all over the city are sitting empty while workers Zoom from home in their shorts. So what’s going to happen to all that space? We'll ask Seattle Times real estate reporter Katherine Khashimova Long.
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Seattle Now: Do NOT touch the armadillos
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with KUOW's Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong and the Seattle Storm’s Mercedes Russell.
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Seattle Now: The Pac-12 packs it in
It's official: no Purple Reign on Saturdays at Husky Stadium this fall, no Apple Cup. The pandemic pushed the Pac-12 conference to cancel all college sports until at least next year. Pac-12 Network broadcaster Elise Woodward explains the impact.
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Seattle Now: Chief Best steps aside
Seattle will rethink its relationship with the police without Chief Carmen Best. She's retiring next month. What happens now? We'll talk about it with Omari Salisbury of Converge Media's Morning Update Show.
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Seattle Now: What is school going to look like in the fall?
Seattle public schools stumbled with the shift to online learning when the pandemic shut down in-person learning in the spring. Will they be ready when the bell rings in the fall? KUOW education reporter Ann Dornfeld gives us an update.
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Seattle Now: Gabriel Teodros on KEXP's new lineup
Seattle’s renowned all-music public radio station is changing its lineup to bring more voices to its airwaves and become an anti-racist organization. KEXP DJ and associate music director Gabriel Teodros talks about the changes and why it's an important move in this moment.
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Seattle Now: Drunk with power
The dog days of summer are upon us... even though it's a pandemic summer. KUOW's Jeannie Yandel and writer Molly Wizenberg are here to talk back to school, kiddie pool shortages and, most importantly, ice cream.