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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: Covid goes to college
Washington State University is seeing a huge Covid outbreak, even though classes are all online. What can we learn from how colleges are tackling this challenge? Trish talks with NPR higher education reporter Elissa Nadworny.
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What it means to lose Black Panther
People around the world are grieving the loss of the actor Chadwick Boseman, who died last week at 43. He’s most famous for playing T’Challa or Black Panther in 2018. Trish talks with Eula Scott Bynoe, cohost of Everything's on Fire with Eula and Jeannie, about what his life and legacy means to her.
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Seattle Now: Nikki Blake Chafetz on justice for her nephew, Jacob Blake
President Trump visits Kenosha, Wisconsin today, but he won’t be meeting with the family of Jacob Blake. The president says it’s because the family wanted lawyers there. Trish talks with Jacob Blake’s aunt, Nikki Blake Chafetz, about why her family is prepared to fight for justice.
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Seattle Now: Pete Carroll shows up
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll has coached football for 50 years. On Saturday, he decided it was time to go fully on the record for the mostly Black athletes who've made his career. Trish talks it over with The Athletic's Michael-Shawn Dugar.
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Seattle Now: Casual Friday with Zaki Hamid + Margaret O'Mara
Another week, another shot at making sense of what life is like now with Zaki Hamid, co-host of KUOW's "Are We Going to Be Okay?" series and University of Washington history professor Margaret O'Mara.
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Seattle Now: Power shift in the gig economy
Covid has upended the economy, even the gig economy, and some of the changes are here to stay.
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Seattle Now: Making the most of takeout
Restaurants who want to survive the pandemic have had to switch it up for take out. And a lot of them have gotten pretty great at it.
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Seattle Now: Murder charge for Auburn cop
King County is putting a new state law to the test by charging an Auburn Police Officer with murder. It's only the third time a case like this has been brought since the 1930s.
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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.