Jason Pagano
News Director
About
Jason Pagano is KUOW's News Director. He previously worked as a producer on local KUOW shows including The Conversation, Weekday, The Record, Morning Edition, Week in Review and Seattle Now.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Stories
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Cost of doing business? Seattle considers employee head tax
Seattle has an affordability and housing problem, and the City Council is considering asking businesses to chip in. A proposal in the works would tax...
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Judge sends deadly force initiative to November ballot
State lawmakers worked with police and community groups during the last legislative session to change the rules for prosecuting police who use deadly...
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We can't fit all the week's news on a highway sign yet, but we're trying
Starbucks apologizes for allegations of racial bias at a Philadelphia store. Former FBI director James Comey claims President Trump is "morally unfit"...
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This week we had a whale of a time with the news
This week, KOMO anchors had to read a script written by their conservative bosses, Sinclair Broadcast Group. Seattle considered several traffic...
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A very public radio conversation with Sarah Vowell
Bill Radke talks to historian, author and former This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell about America's troubled history and how it can better help...
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We lost some things this week, but not a baseball game!
This week, Seattle lost its Russian consulate, lost its “first in time” rental law, lost the Battery Street Park, lost everything... except the season...
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Stop acting like the planet is doomed, says this Harvard prof
If you follow the news, you might get the impression that things are pretty bad. Not just "why bother" bad. It's "throw your hands up" bad. Or even "eat...
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We reviewed this week's news and said 'Goodnight, Boom'
Students walked out of school over guns and Pennsylvania swung a Congressional district from red to blue. Will Washington state do the same in the...
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We brought Ichiro back to shore up this week's news
Ichiro Suzuki is back in a Seattle Mariners uniform, Amazon says it's figured out why its Echo smart speakers are spontaneously laughing out loud and...
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This week's news had phones ringing off the hook
It's not often a legislature passes a bill with bipartisan, supermajority support and the governor vetoes it anyway, but that's what happened this week....