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Episodes
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Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison says she's not leading a new 'war on drugs'
Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison wants her office to prosecute people arrested for drugs.
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Seattle's Holy Grail: reducing single-use cups
Seattle Public Utilities is partnering with local businesses to encourage reusable beverage containers. The goal is to keep those cups in use, and out of the landfill.
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King County gets new, five-year plan to address homelessness
It took some revising but King County’s Regional Homelessness Authority has a new, five year plan. The Authority’s Governing Committee unanimously approved the plan on Thursday after months of public input.
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Seattle employer can sue workers over 2017 strike, U.S. Supreme Court rules
The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday that a Seattle company has the right to sue the union representing its employees for damages arising from a 2017 strike. The company, Glacier NW, sued the Teamsters Local 174 after drivers walked off the job with concrete still spinning in their trucks.
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Researchers tackle asthma hotspot: Seattle’s Duwamish Valley
People in the 98108 ZIP code are nearly four times more likely to end up in the hospital with asthma than King County residents overall. Duwamish Valley has twice the poverty rate of Seattle and is mostly people of color.
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Lummi Nation moves to block BC port expansion they say would impact salmon
The port authority said the expansion would increase Canada’s west coast container capacity by about a third of what it’s already at, and has Indigenous buy-in. But the Lummi Nation in Washington said they've been ignored, and that is a violation of their rights.
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Burien animal shelter will clear tent encampment after City Council fails to reach agreement
After the Burien City Council could not come to an agreement about where to direct people living in an undeveloped park, the camp will be cleared by a group that leased the site and has plans to turn it into a dog park.
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Hundreds of Amazon employees walk out over company's carbon footprint, in-person work policy
Nearly 2,000 Amazon employees pledged to join a one-hour walkout Wednesday to protest the company’s environmental impact and workplace policies. About 915 of them are based in Seattle, according to organizers of the demonstration.
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Who likes a hotter climate? Northwest mosquitoes
A warming climate has meant better conditions for mosquitoes in much of the Northwest.
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New Washington state laws give debt relief to people exiting prison
Starting this summer, people convicted of crimes in Washington will face fewer court-ordered fees. That’s thanks to the state’s third law in recent years aimed at easing the debt burden of “legal financial obligations,” or LFO’s, on people with criminal convictions.
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45 candidates are running for Seattle City Council. Who are they and what do they stand for?
KUOW’s politics editor Cat Smith has been talking to the candidates since last week’s filing deadline. She joined Morning Edition host Angela King to talk about some of the key issues and races so far.
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Microsoft joins plea for government regulation of AI tools like ChatGPT
Microsoft President Brad Smith went to the other Washington this week to ask government officials to put guardrails up around artificial intelligence.