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After a state Supreme Court ruling, what's next for...

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2025/04/28

The debate over how to address homelessness in Spokane continues to simmer after a decision this month from Washington’s Supreme Court. The ruling struck down Proposition 1, a camping ban introduced by a citizen-led initiative that was overwhelmingly passed by Spokane voters in 2023. The court’s decision wasn’t based on the merits of the camping ban, but rather on whether the citizens of Spokane had the power to take such action in the first place. Now, the legal ripples of this

24:33

What is pension spiking, and how is it costing the...

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2025/04/28

Companies have increasingly shifted the responsibility of saving for retirement onto workers. Pension plans have mostly disappeared from the private sector, in favor of 401k style plans. For example, the Boeing Machinist union tried unsuccessfully get their pension plan reinstated during last year’s strike. For most public employees, including Washington state workers, though, Pensions are still an option. But not all public pensions are created equal. Some allow workers to potentially

14:31

Google and DOJ face off over remedy for search engine...

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2025/04/24

Do you ever wonder why you turn to Google so often to search for a recipe or a news article or how to properly use a semicolon? If you ask Alphabet, Google’s parent company, they’ll tell you it’s because they just have the best results. The Department of Justice has a different take: it filed an antitrust case against the company in 2020 accusing Google of using its power as the pre eminent online search engine to stifle competition. The government won last year, when a federal

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Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - 4/24-27

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2025/04/24

Have you been outside this week? It’s GORGEOUS. If you need a few more excuses to go out & do things, then you’re in luck. We’ve got Soundside Producer Jason Megatron Burrows here with one or two or three more reasons to leave your house LINKS: Seattle/King County Clinic - Seattle Center Crescendo: A Symphonic Celebration of Washington Landscapes Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Jet City Roller Derby vs RCRD's Grave Danger PBR Unleash the Beast | Tacoma Dome Run Like the

32:49

This author used ChatGPT as a mirror for her life —...

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2025/04/23

Vauhini Vara’s new essay collection opens with a heart to heart with ChatGPT. In her prompt, she asks the program to give her feedback on a few chapters of her upcoming book. “I’m nervous,” she tells it. “That’s completely understandable,” it responds with a cheery exclamation point. “Sharing your writing can feel really personal, but I’m here to provide a supportive and constructive perspective. Take your time, and whenever you’re ready,

13:57

Student loan borrowers are being asked to pony up

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2025/04/23

On Monday, the Department of Education announced that it will resume collections on defaulted loans on May 5th. That’s after a five year pause started in the midst of the covid pandemic. More than 42 million people in the United States have student loans through the federal government. And, according to the Department of Education, five million have not made a payment in the last year. Experts warn that this push for repayment will put loan holders in difficult financial situations and could

16:51

The White House killed this one of a kind report. The...

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2025/04/23

"Our world is changing. It's changing rapidly. Like, we can see climate changing our world as we speak, but also, we're losing nature at unprecedented rates, and there's an equity crisis as well." That was University of Washington professor Phil Levin two years ago. At the time, he’d just been tapped by the Biden Administration for a one of a kind mission: writing the most all encompassing review ever of nature throughout the entirety of the United States. “The National Nature

21:19

What's at stake in the birthright citizenship Supreme...

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2025/04/22

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over an executive order ending birthright citizenship. President Trump signed that order in his first days in office. A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing the order nationwide. And two other legal challenges – in federal courts in Massachusetts and Maryland – also prompted injunctions. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether a 125 year old constitutional right to citizenship for people born

13:58

Congressman Adam Smith on the latest Signal chat...

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2025/04/22

The Pentagon is roiling over yet another Signal group chat. No, notthat one with the Trump Administration national security team that accidentally included an editor at the Atlantic. This is… another Signal group chat scandal. The New York Timesreports that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared operational details for a March 15th U.S. strike on the Houthis in Yemen with a group of 13 people. They allegedly included his personal lawyer, brother, and wife. This comes while Hegseth’s

11:00

New Wing Luke exhibit explores the power of objects...

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2025/04/21

An old faded rice cooker. A blue two piece suit. A vial of water from the Ganges River. For the past four years, Poet Shin Yu Pai’s podcast, Ten Thousand Things, has explored how objects – from the extraordinary to the mundane, the literal to the figurative – communicate stories of Asian American meaning, identity, and culture. As of last month, the stories in the series have broken out of podcast players and become a new exhibit in Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum. The exhibit

28:10

As Trump cuts funding, researchers look for...

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2025/04/21

News has not been good lately for research universities in the United States. The Trump Administration has proposedslashing the National Institutes of Health Budget by about half – eliminating tens of billions of dollars for the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world. The White House had earlier announced a 15 percent cap on indirect costs for NIH grants. That money goes towards facility maintenance at research institutions and university presidents say the move will greatly

12:21

Remembering Pope Francis

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2025/04/21

“With dignity, but like any Christian, because the bishop of Rome is a pastor and a disciple, not a powerful man of this world.”That’s part of the instructions from Pope Francis to “lighten” the formality of his funeral arrangements. Francis wrote about his wish for a simpler ceremony in his autobiography, published earlier this year. The attitude reflected his wish that the church move closer to regular people and its mission of serving the marginalized, including

24:51

Trump Administration opens half of national forest...

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2025/04/17

The Trump administration is pushing for more logging on public land, pledging to boost America’s domestic supply of wood products and increase wildfire resilience. In March, the President issued an executive order directing federal agencies to begin finding ways to expand timber production by 25% over the next few years. Last week, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins sent a memo establishing an “emergency situation determination” covering more than 112 million national forest

4:49

Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - April 17th-20th

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2025/04/17

It's CONVENTION WEEKEND... But also Easter Weekend... And the start of Bellingham Beer Week, and National Park Week. It's the Weekend Warmup! Enjoy! LINKS: Norwescon Sakura-Con Bellingham Beer Week National Park Week Climate Pledge Arena – Phish Spring Fair | Washington State Fair Events Center Skagit Valley Tulip Festival KUOW - Meet Me Here Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundsideis a

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The biggest story of the baseball season is ... the bat?

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2025/04/16

We are three weeks into the Major League Baseball season and one of the main story lines of the nascent season is the bats. On the second day of the season, the New York Yankees hit 9 home runs against the Milwaukee Brewers. Many of the Yankees players were using a new type of bat – shaped kind of like a bowling pin. This bat bulges at the center and narrows at the end.It’s called a torpedo bat. Of course, traditionalists don’t love the new bat (let’s be real, some people

24:07

Discovering the message of Houlme: how one Orcas...

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2025/04/16

The James Beard Award has been a kingmaker in the food business since the 1980s. Even getting a nomination can be life-changing. Chef Jay Blackinton – a punk musician and self-described wannabee skateboarder – has been nominated seven times. He’s self-taught and runs a buzzy two-man kitchen on Orcas Island. And this year, he’s been named a James Beard Award finalist in the Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific category. Seattle restaurants Archipelago and Atoma are also finalists

21:11

Has the U.S. reached a "constitutional crisis"?

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2025/04/15

Today, a federal judge reprimanded the Trump Administration over its failure to comply with a court order to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. Abrego Garcia is a 29 year old Salvadoran citizen who is married to a U-S citizen and was living in Maryland when he was mistakenly deported despite being under court-ordered protection from being sent back to El Salvador. The Trump Administration blamed an “administrative error.” U.S. District Court Judge Paula

15:52

Trump order aims to change our understanding of history

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2025/04/15

In an executive order called “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” President Trump criticizesSmithsonian exhibits that examine how race interacts with power and privilege. He claims they “portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.” The executive order also threatens to take away funding from exhibitions within the Smithsonian Museum network that promote what the administration is calling “a divisive, race-centered

15:01

Why ER doctors are tuning into THE PITT

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2025/04/15

A harried emergency room doctor rushes between patients; his waiting room is filled to the brim with sick and injured people, he’s dodging a RAT infestation, all while overseeing a new crop of residents getting up to speed on their ER rotation. AND oh yes… sparring with a hospital administrator who’s reminding him: He needs to get those patient satisfaction scores up. It’s all in the day in the life of Dr. Robby of “The Pitt,” the fictional Pittsbourgh Emergency

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