Seattle Now
Seattle Now is a smart, daily news podcast for a curious city, from KUOW and the NPR Network. New episodes every weekday morning and evening.
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Episodes
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Casual Friday with Marcus Harrison Green and Paige Browning
This week… Seattle Police started working 4-tens to cover the significant recruitment problem. A Seattle researcher made a data map of the city’s so-called 15-minute neighborhoods. And we’ll spill the beans on which Seattle billionaire is the worst carbon emitter.
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Out-of-state providers seek abortion training in WA
Out of state health providers are scrambling to find abortion training in states like Washington. Medical residents, family physicians, and OBGYNs in states where abortion is illegal often can’t get adequate training there. And because many doctors don’t plan to work solely in states where abortion is illegal…states like Washington can fill in the gap. KUOW reporter Eilis O’Neill is here to talk about how Washington state’s Abortion training landscape changed after the Roe decision, and how it has been filling the gaps for other states
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A Seattle English teacher on ChatGPT
What happens when ChatGPT does your homework? That’s what educators are figuring out now that the text generating technology is online. Teachers are talking about how to help students use it responsibly. West Seattle High School English chair Kira Hopkins is here to explain.
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Seattle loves streateries. Does Ballard Ave?
Streateries are one of Seattle’s favorite pandemic byproducts. The city made street dining permanent and added an amendment to give historic districts six months to decide whether or not they’re a good fit. Like on Ballard Avenue, where there’s tension about whether one of Seattle’s most successful stretches of streateries gets to stay. The Urbanist’s Ray Dubicki is here to talk us through the decision.
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Safety? It's a statistic and a feeling
Last week, the Seattle Police Department released their annual crime report for 2022. Violent crime was up, except in the last quarter. Concern and fear about violent crime is up too. And that perception may be more important than the statistics. Seattle University’s Dr. Jackie Helfgott is here to explain why.
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Casual Friday with Lex Vaughn and Mike Davis
This week, there’s a special election, with one thing on the ballot: social housing. Microsoft is beefing up their search engine to catch up with Google, and the downtown Regal Theater is just like Schrödinger's cat - it’s either dead, or alive, but we don’t know which. Needling Editor in Chief Lex Vaughn and KUOW Arts and Culture Reporter Mike Davis are here to break it all down.
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Faux spring hits Seattle’s housing market
Here's a forecast for Seattle area homebuyers: partly cloudy with a chance of less competition. The start of Seattle's 2023 housing market is off to a temperate start with financial worries buzzing. But for a few winter is offering glimmers of bright spots Seattle Times business reporter Heidi Groover is here to help us with the forecast.
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Navigating care in a Catholic hospital system
In Washington about half of hospitals are Catholic run due to mergers. And that can complicate access to things like abortion, gender affirming care, and death with dignity. A new bill would authorize public oversight of hospital mergers and whether they would impact access to care. Seattle Times reporter Nina Shapiro is here to talk about the bill and our local hospital network.
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Seattle's got a new Poet-in-Chief
Seattle has a new Civic Poet. Since 2015, the position has helped foster a relationship between the city and its creatives and help bring poetry to the people. We’ll hear from Shin Yu Pai, Seattle’s new Civic Poet and host of KUOW’s The Blue Suit, about her new role.
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Social housing, explained
Seattle needs many thousands of units of affordable housing right now and the need is only growing. Now voters in the city are being asked whether or not to approve social housing. A new-to-us idea that would create mixed income buildings... Well, eventually. Axios Seattle’s Melissa Santos is here to explain. We can only make Seattle Now because listeners support us. Make the show happen by making a gift to KUOW: https://www.kuow.org/donate/seattlenow And we want to hear from you! Follow us on Instagram at SeattleNowPod, or leave us feedback online: https://www.kuow.org/feedback
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Casual Friday with Kemi Adeyemi and Jodi-Ann Burey
This week, we say goodbye to the ‘Queen of the skies’ the Boeing 747, Seattle Public School students and educators push for more support for ethnic studies and attack of the fungi goes from silver screen to reality real quick with some stomach churning research. UW professor Kemi Adeyemi and author Jodi-Ann Burey are here to break down the week.
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Downtown Seattle's identity crisis
Some people think downtown Seattle is dying or already dead, while others see it as a place that just needs a fresh start. Seattle Now producers Vaughan Jones and Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers went on a mission to see what’s going on in Seattle’s urban core. You'll hear from people who live, work and enjoy our city center.