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Seattle Now is KUOW's flagship daily news podcast. Seattle Now brings you quick headlines, smart analysis, and award-winning local news. New episodes every weekday morning and afternoon. Start and end your day with Seattle Now, from KUOW and the NPR Network.
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Episodes
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Marcus Green and Melissa Hellmann
This week we learned that Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan won’t run for reelection, and school superintendent Denise Juneau says she’ll be leaving too. Seattle Times reporter Melissa Hellmann and the South Seattle Emerald’s Marcus Green are here to break it all down with us.
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Seattle Now: Why Mayor Durkan won't seek re-election.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's announcement she won't run for a second term comes at a tumultuous time. The city is bruised by the pandemic and protests over police brutality, and fractured by political battles. So what drove the Mayor to step aside?
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Seattle Now: 'There’s nowhere to hide' from the third wave
Just how bad is the pandemic right now? In a nutshell, bad. Today we break down the numbers and explain why this wave is worse than the previous two.
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Seattle Now: Seattle's falling home rents
The idea of more space at home, maybe an office or a bigger yard, is enticing in a pandemic. That desire is driving down rents in Seattle, as people search beyond the city for homes. But the Covid economy means many won't benefit from cheaper rents, and face losing their homes.
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Seattle Now: Reinventing live music
Live music is a huge part of Seattle’s identity, but the pandemic put a stop to concerts indefinitely. Now we have an opportunity to reinvent the scene, and move on from the city's past.
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Jeannie Yandel + Zaki Hamid
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with KUOW Special Projects Editor Jeannie Yandel and Zaki Hamid, KUOW's Director of Community Engagement.
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Seattle Now: The problem with pandemic pods
Pods - or bubbles - have helped people to stay connected during the pandemic. But public health advice about how they should work is scarce. So we need to talk about pod rules, or risk bursting our bubble of protection.
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Seattle Now: The vaccine plan
We've been waiting for a Covid vaccine all year. Now that it's finally here, how will we vaccinate everyone? And is a "return to normal" in sight?
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Seattle Now: Amazon's hiring spree
The pandemic has caused millions of people to lose their jobs but Amazon is hiring at historic levels. If you work in restaurants, retail, or the arts, you know the damage COVID has done. Amazon has no such concerns. On average, they’ve hired 1,400 workers every day of 2020 - growing their workforce to over one point two million people. Karen Weise is a New York Times reporter based here in Seattle and has been reporting on Amazon’s pandemic hiring spree.
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Seattle Now: How to have low stakes outdoor adventures
The dark rainy months are here, and this creates a new challenge in our pandemic lives.
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Seattle Now: How does a sperm whale survive the crushing depths a mile underwater?
A story from our friends at KUOW's The Wild, about how sperm whales can dive 10 times deeper than an extreme diver.
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Seattle Now: Can squirrels get us to Mars?
Happy Thanksgiving! We're sharing a special episode today from our friends at The Wild podcast, about ground squirrels, hibernation... and space travel.