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  KUOW Newsroom

  Hawaiian lei are back in abundance in Seattle

  The prized Hawaiian tradition may be a unique economic indicator in Seattle, as businesses welcome more customers and inventory back to their stores.
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  Elections

  How would Seattle's mayoral candidates help businesses recover?

  This week, we ask candidates how they would help Seattle businesses recover from the pandemic.

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  KUOW Newsroom

  What King County’s first Regional Homelessness Authority wants to do differently

  Marc Dones is the leader of the new King County Regional Homelessness Authority. They want to give people with lived experience a say in the region's plan.
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  Elections

  KUOW asks Seattle: What’s one thing you’d do differently to address structural racism?

  KUOW is asking Seattle voters the same questions it is asking candidates for mayor in the 2021 primary election. This week, we asked about structural racism. Read their responses below.

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  KUOW Newsroom

  Is Black and Asian solidarity possible? These artists say yes

  Inspired by a bold mural by Vietnamese artist Tân Nguyen and Black Seattle artist Moses Sun, KUOW's Kristin Leong saw the potential these communities held if they could come together for a common cause. But that meant overcoming two particularly steep challenges: that a lot of people just don't want to talk about race, and that there is long-standing tension between the Asian and Black communities.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  How would Seattle's mayoral candidates address structural racism?

  KUOW has asked each candidate running for Seattle mayor in 2021 seven questions addressing key issues facing the city and what they would do about it.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Looking back at Seattle's CHOP, one year later

  It’s been one year since people in Seattle protesting police violence marched to the East Police Precinct - and found Seattle Police all but abandoned the area. What remained was a protest zone that garnered national attention.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Out of the election and into... another election. This week in politics

  Just when you thought you might catch a break from the rough edges of national politics, a new race is taking shape for Washington's 8th Congressional District seat. Republican Matt Larkin - who ran for attorney general last year and lost - is taking on incumbent Democratic Representative Kim Schrier.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Bellevue grabs attention of international investors

  Downtown Bellevue has attracted the attention of investors around the world. Amazon has promised to put 25,000 employees there by 2025. New light rail service there could carry 50,000 people a day by 2030. All that change has raised Bellevue’s visibility on the global stage. One Bellevue realtor has been fielding a lot of calls recently from China.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  'You are only defeated if you stop fighting'

  Marcus Harrison Green is the publisher of the South Seattle Emerald and columnist for the Seattle Times. He's a Black man who grew up in South Seattle. And he spoke to KUOW's Morning Edition about how this city has changed - after George Floyd was killed but also long before that.

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