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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Politics
Charley Royer, Seattle’s longest serving mayor, dies at 84
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UW president repeats call for pro-Palestinian camp to disband following graffiti, vandalism on campus
University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce is again calling for organizers to voluntarily take down a pro-Palestinian protest camp that is now in its third week on the Quad at UW's Seattle campus.
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Sports
Keys to the band: UW and Michigan marching to win over fans at national championship game
While the Washington Huskies and the Michigan Wolverines battle on the field for a national title Monday, the bands from each school have big plans to dazzle the fans and pay tribute to their respective teams.
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Arts & Life
West Seattle Water Taxi to the rescue
You’ve probably seen video of the runaway barge in Elliot Bay last week slamming into Pier 66. The six-story wall of steel containers broke free in high winds and was headed towards the Great Wheel. Things could’ve been much worse if it wasn’t for the quick thinking of Captain Dan Krehbiel, steering a water taxi from West Seattle. We met up with him on the boat over the weekend.
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Government
This water taxi captain prevented a runaway barge from ramming into downtown Seattle. Here's his account
Captain Dan Krehbiel was steering a water taxi boat from West Seattle on Thursday when he spotted a runaway barge -- a six-story wall of steel containers -- headed at a clipped pace of the Great Wheel and the Seattle Aquarium. What follows is Krehbiel’s account of what happened.
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Environment
Seattle's giant house spiders: Big and fast, but they won't kill you
Certain spiders are so big, they make even the most spider-friendly humans leap off the couch, and those spiders, appropriately named “giant house spiders,” are on the move this time of year, looking for a mate.
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Business
Washington ferries still floating back to pre-pandemic service levels
Washington state's ferry system now has four of its eight routes back to pre-pandemic service levels. But the state's only international route, Anacortes to Sidney, B.C., won't be back until 2030 at the earliest.
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Why eastern states are getting all of our Northwest weather right now
National Weather Service forecaster Dustin Guy says the current weather trend could be one of the longer dry stretches Washington has seen in a November.
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Late voters find long lines in Seattle and Bellevue
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Health
Down to the wire
We're about to throw open the gates for anyone over 16 to get vaccinated. And just in time, because young people are driving infections and the Governor might start rolling back the reopening as soon as today. We’ll get a pandemic reality check from UW epidemiologist Judith Malmgren.
