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46:50

Bigger than a Rivalry: the Abuse Scandals in Portland...

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2022/02/21

The Portland Timbers are a men’s professional soccer team playing in Major League Soccer (MLS). The Portland Thorns are literally their sister club, a women’s team, playing in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). Both...

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45:38

Let’s Talk about Safe Seattle and their New Offspring...

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2022/02/06

Tacoma Safe is a new group spearheaded by Angela Connoly. Connoly is a wealthy, socially conservative, activist, who previously led and funded an anti-LGBT effort called the Just Want Privacy Campaign. That campaign sought to...

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45:11

Why We Need Regional Housing Solutions – Rep....

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2022/01/25

Jessica Bateman is a former planning commissioner and former member of the Olympia City Council. She currently represents the cities of Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey in the Washington State Legislature. She joined us on the...

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48:53

The Missing Middle in Housing – Joseph Tovar,...

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2022/01/17

Joseph Tovar helped draft Washington State’s growth management act and has served as lead planner for cities across Western Washington. He has a theory: we’ve gotten good at building condos, we’ve always been good at...

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51:48

The Congressional Agenda in 2022 — Rep. Derek Kilmer,...

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2022/01/10

The current Congress is our country’s 117th. They were elected in 2020 and will face voters in the midterms later this year. Today they are returning after their winter break to take up the many,...

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44:19

Previewing the 2022 Washington State Legislative...

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2022/01/03

A founding premise of the show is that political engagement in state and local politics is essential. It is because of this that each year we preview the upcoming state legislative session. This week we...

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45:38

The Bottom End of the Housing Market Has Been...

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2021/12/27

In arguably the most important piece of local journalism of 2021, Will James did a three part story on the displaced residents of the Merkle Hotel in Downtown Tacoma. The Merkle was the last of...

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44:21

White Backlash Politics and Imagining a...

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2021/12/20

Dr. Will Horne is a history professor at Villanova University. He is also the founder and editor of The Activist History Review, an online journal created in 2017 to contextualize US history in light of...

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55:44

Understanding and Confronting Antisemitism Online and...

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2021/12/06

Our guest this week is Miri Cypers. She is the Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League in the Northwest. The ADL’s is a legacy civil rights organization whose mission is to “stop the defamation of...

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57:29

Congressional and Legislative Redistricting Across...

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2021/11/22

Over on Crossing Division, Evelyn has covered redistricting in Tacoma, in particular the 27th legislative district. In this conversation, we were planning to look at the whole state, including a conversation about the Congressional District...

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50:34

We Are Drowning in Disinformation — Michael Klein,...

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2021/11/08

From QAnon to Anti-vaxx nonsense, from Stop the Steal to the CRT moral panic, the US is awash in disinformation. It comes to us via Facebook, in barbershops, from group chats, and sermons from the...

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37:38

Tacoma Mayoral Race and #BoatGate – Allison Needles,...

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2021/10/30

Victoria Woodards is the incumbent mayor of Tacoma and running for re-election. Her opponent Steve Haverly is a small business owner. He is a newcomer to the political scene and a relative unknown. Haverly is...

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43:16

An Audio Voters’ Guide for Tacoma — Evelyn Lopez,...

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2021/10/27

Back when Washington State first started voting by mail in the 2010s, I started hosting Bring Your Ballot Parties. These were gatherings where we would discuss the merits of various candidates and ballot measures in...

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50:57

On Democratic Erosion in Russia and Elsewhere: Nerd...

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2021/10/25

Democratic erosion is the process by which democratic states drift, inch by inch, into authoritarianism. On paper, Russia has among the best democratic systems out there. In reality, like in the US, things are a...

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52:26

The Right Wing War on History and Speech in Schools —...

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2021/10/11

Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former marketer, investment banker, and recently retired English teacher. Her 2015 book Schooled, is a collection of stories from teachers across the US about their experiences and challenges in US...

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50:11

How Seattle Public Schools Managed to Lose 2000...

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2021/09/20

Claudia Rowe is a long-time journalist, currently writing opinion pieces for our friends at Crosscut. She recently published a piece detailing how Seattle Public Schools has shed 2000 students during the pandemic to private schools,...

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29:55

Back-to-School Perspectives — Hearing from a Student...

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2021/09/06

This conversation is the final of a series of episodes we will be releasing along with the ladies from IWL in preparation for what will likely be another very weird school year. This time we’re...

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34:50

Back-to-School Perspectives — Robin Lake, Center on...

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2021/08/23

This conversation is part of a series of episodes we will be releasing along with the ladies from IWL in preparation for what will likely be another very weird school year. Robin Lake is the...

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30:03

Back-to-School Perspectives — Bill Hanawalt, Degrees...

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2021/08/16

This conversation is part of a series of episodes we will be releasing along with the ladies from IWL in preparation for what will likely be another very weird school year. Bill Hanawalt is the...

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35:45

Getting to the Root of and Fixing Low Voter Turnout —...

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2021/08/09

Last week Pierce County held its August primary. Turnout was weak and progressive candidates struggled locally and across the state. This is a familiar pattern in odd-year elections in Washington: turnout is low, but the...

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