Patricia Murphy
Host
About
Patricia Murphy is the host of Seattle Now, a daily news podcast.
Her interviews focus on experts and newsmakers. Previously, you could find Patricia on the beat reporting on military and veteran affairs, justice, and health.
In 2018 Patricia received a regional Edward R. Murrow award for a series about the motivations of young people who carry guns. In 2005 she received a national Edward R. Murrow award for her reporting on injection drug use.
Though her first job in news was throwing hard copies of the Sunday paper from her bike, Patricia also graduated from Emerson College with a B.S. in Communications.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Dart Center, Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism
Podcasts
Stories
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Arts & Life
Tan Vinh, 500 tacos later
Never underestimate the taco. Especially ones you can get in a gas station parking lot or maybe filled with spicy grasshoppers. Today we’re heading out with Seattle Times food critic Tan Vinh to find out what he learned after eating 500 tacos in western Washington. We visit two taquerias along the way, Taqueria Los Potrillos #1 in Rainier Valley and Casa Mixteca in Burien
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Arts & Life
Casual Friday with Marcus Harrison Green and Clare McGrane
This week…A middle housing bill passed the state senate and is on the way to changing Washington’s housing landscape. Amazon wants workers back in the office starting next month… if they can get their offices ready. And Starbucks says save your pennies from now on they’re gonna stop up charging you for some of that non-dairy milk. Writer and Seattle Times Columnist Marcus Harrison Green and KUOW’s Clare McGrane are here to break down the week.
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Law & Courts
Coming Soon: Middle housing in WA
Duplexes, fourplexes, sixplexes… oh my.
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Arts & Life
The Kraken did WHAT?
Hold on to your hockey skates, because the Kraken made the playoffs. That’s right, from 30th place last season to this year’s NHL postseason, the Seattle Kraken is the scrappy underdog of the hockey world. In case you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, we’ll get you some help. Kraken radio play-by-play announcer Everett Fitzhugh is here to break the ice for first time fans.
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Health
WA State and the fight for reproductive rights
The US Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court to put a hold on a Texas court ruling over access to the abortion medication mifepristone Meanwhile here in Washington, lawmakers are hearing testimony on legislation that would create a pathway to distribute the more than 30 thousand dose stockpile we just purchased.
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Wing Luke exhibit strikes a chord in C-ID development debate
A new exhibit at the Wing Luke Museum looks at what happened to the neighborhoods that were disrupted to build I- 5. We’ll head over there with Leeching Tran who’s been in the CID for decades and talk to the writer and artist behind the exhibit Tessa Hulls. In a minute we'll hear about the history of development and displacement in the neighborhood and how some of the same themes are showing up again in the fight over a new Sound Transit light rail station.
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Arts & Life
Casual Friday with Lex Vaughn and Rachel Belle
This week… Washington state purchased abortion pills to stay ahead of a ruling that could take them off the market. The state’s Attorney General stood up to major chicken producers about price-fixing, And the official sport of Washington is going corporate. Needling Editor-in-Chief Lex Vaughn and Your Last Meal Podcast Host Rachel Belle are here to break down the week.
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Health
Thousands on Medicaid in WA may lose coverage
Thousands of Apple Health enrollees are at risk of losing health care coverage now that pandemic protections for Medicaid have expired across the US. That coverage gap will look different across the country. But in Washington… you may no longer meet the requirements or you could miss the deadline to reapply. Aaron Katz is a Principal Lecturer Emeritus for the School of Public Health at University of Washington. He’ll walk us through some of the administrative hurdles and how the red tape may impact patients in our state/county.
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Health
Washington abortion providers face new legal hurdles
Seeking abortion care in Idaho is about to get even harder. New legislation in Idaho makes it a crime to assist a minor with abortion care in another state without parental consent. And that has legal implications for providers in Washington. Legal Voice Washington Policy Counsel Alizeh Bhojani is here to explain.
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Politics
Checking in on Seattle's homelessness promises
Politicians make a lot of promises. Keeping them? Well, that’s harder. At the start of the pandemic, Seattle and King County officials made a lot of promises to help people experiencing homelessness. Anna Patrick is a Project Homeless reporter at the Seattle Times, she’s here to talk us through some of these plans, and why they haven’t come to fruition.