Scott Greenstone
Politics Reporter, Host of Sound Politics
About
Scott Greenstone covers PNW politics for KUOW, from Congress to county officials, and how decisions in the other Washington affect life here. He co-hosts Sound Politics with Libby Denkmann.
Greenstone came to KUOW in 2024, after working at KNKX and the Seattle Times. He produced and helped report "Outsiders," which was named a top 10 podcast of 2020 by TIME magazine. Greenstone has written everything from homelessness coverage to business news to movie reviews for newspapers and radio. He studied Journalism and Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
Before that, Greenstone was homeschooled, which is probably why he's like that.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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For your ears only: The politics of privacy
What do you have a right to? Your data? Your gender presentation? Your child’s health information? We talk through what the implications of privacy policies, and what lawmakers are proposing to do about it, on this week’s episode of Sound Politics.
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Drive a Tesla and have big feelings about it? KUOW wants to hear from you
KUOW wants to know what it's been like to drive a Tesla around the Seattle area during this time of sweeping and contentious political change. Get in touch with KUOW politics reporter Scott Greenstone via email at sgreenstone@kuow.org to share your experience.
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Washington state, UW join lawsuit over Trump order cutting funding for medical research
The University of Washington and Washington state are joining nearly two dozen states in suing the federal government over a change in funding from the National Institutes of Health.
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USAID in Seattle, Musk-opoly, and a chick off the old block
Politics right now it feels like everything is shifting all the time. KUOW Olympia correspondent Jeanie Lindsay joins the show for this grab bag episode on trickling federal changes, Tesla legislation, and a passed down painting.
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Washington’s Congressmembers have been sharing one 'ugly' painting for 50 years
Every new Congress, the painting known as “The Chick” goes to the newest member of the Washington delegation.
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Does Seattle love social housing enough to fund it?
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'Sheer panic': Washington officials rush to figure out federal funding freeze
UPDATE: A federal judge paused the implementation of a Trump administration order that would have frozen the issuance of federal grants and loans until Feb. 3.
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Washington state creates response team to protect children whose parents are deported
Surrounded by immigrant advocates chanting, “Keep families together!” Gov. Bob Ferguson signed an executive order Monday creating a rapid response team to help Washington families targeted by the Trump administration for deportation.
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Washington Attorney General sues Trump Administration
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WA Proud Boy Ethan Nordean has 18-year sentence commuted by Trump