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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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    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.

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    Seattle Now: So you wanna go camping?

    Social distant camping is one of the only summer activities we can do right now. And that means more and more people are heading out into the woods.

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    Seattle Now: Sports on the bubble

    The Mariners, Sounders and Storm are all playing again and the Seahawks are getting ready. But playing even a shortened season in a pandemic means keeping players healthy, and that's already a challenge. ESPN’s Mina Kimes explains how it's going so far.