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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on city budgets, the...

Soundside ·

2025/01/13

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is running for re-election in 2025. He’s hoping to break the long running streak of single term mayors in Seattle like Mike McGinn, Ed Murray, and Jenny Durkin. The election is still nearly a year away, and in the meantime, the mayor will finish the last year of his term addressing a long list of issues: public safety, the future of downtown, and the implementation of a new comprehensive plan. The mayor sat down with Soundside host Libby Denkmann to discuss his

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Dangerous highs from highly potent cannabis

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2025/01/13

Marijuana has been recreationally legal here in Washington since 2012, and it's become big business for the state. Last year sales topped $1 billion, and the state earned hundreds of millions in taxes on marijuana. As the drug’s popularity in the state has increased, so has its potency. As this episode's guest would say, it’s not your dad’s weed. Now, doctors are seeing more harmful, and sometimes fatal consequences from overuse of marijuana. KUOW online editor and producer Stephen

4:42

Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - Jan 9th-13th

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2025/01/10

Our first week back after the holiday break has been jam-packed with all the news that’s fit to print… or read out loud into a microphone, whatever. Now that the weekend is nearly here, it’s time to sail away & relax a little… In that spirit, here’s our resident “Cruise Director,” Producer Jason Megatron Burrows live from the Lido Deck with everything exciting happening this weekend! EVENTS: Bridge to Bridge Fake Race at 14th Avenue NW Boat Ramp

14:10

Washington state sends firefighters, engines to help...

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2025/01/09

Five people have died and thousands of homes have burned in wildfires sweeping across the Los Angeles area. Five separate fires are burning in the county - the Palisades fire, Eaton fire, Hurst fire, Lidia and Sunset fires. The Palisades and Eaton Fires are some of the most destructive in the region’s history. Local resources are stretched thin – but some help is on the way from Washington. Dozens of engines and more than 100 firefighters from local agencies have committed to travel to

15:24

Washington sheriffs may face pressure between federal...

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2025/01/09

President Elect Donald Trump has promised mass deportations of undocumented immigrants on day one of his administration.Removing the approximately 11.7 million people living in the United States without authorization would take a massive operational effort -- and likely require cooperation from both state and local governments. Right now, most Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in the U.S. happen because of a hand off from local law enforcement. But that kind of cooperation is restricted in

53:23

The Housing First Approach: A Documentary

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2025/01/08

As the Trump administration prepares to take office, a fight is brewing over the future of homelessness in America. For about a decade now, the federal government has pushed a strategy called Housing First. It's designed to get people off the streets and into permanent homes... even when they have serious problems with mental illness or substance use. Seattle was one of the earliest adopters of this approach, back in the nineties. But, over the past few years, a growing chorus of critics —

28:14

As ShotSpotter rolls out in Tacoma, feelings over...

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2025/01/08

In an effort to curb gun crime, Tacoma announced last year that it was turning to a tool called ShotSpotter. ShotSpotter is a form of Gun Detection Technology (GDT), which uses a series of acoustic microphone sensors to track loud bangs, booms, and pops in a designated area. Once those "dynamic events" are triggered, a human classifier verifies the sound was a gunshot and alerts local police. The entire process happens within 60 seconds or less. The idea is that it’s a faster and more accurate

11:33

A look into Amazon's "Return to Office" mandate

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2025/01/07

Amazon employees are back in the office five days a week, five years after Covid-19 shook up work as we know it; as the company’s so-called Return-To-Office policy took effect on Thursday, January 2nd. Amazon is the largest private employer to roll back its pandemic-era work from home policy. So, what will this mean for both employees AND local businesses in the hubs where Amazon resides? Monica Nicklesburg tackled this question for KUOW as the resident Labor & Economy Reporter,

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A new book looks at how border closures divided lives...

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2025/01/07

It’s been five years since Covid 19 began spreading around the world from its origin in Wuhan, China. In that emergent time of the pandemic, there was widespread concern about clusters of the virus, in Italy, then Iran, then an outbreak at a nursing home in the Pacific Northwest. By March of 2020, an unprecedented international phenomenon took place: countries began closing their borders. When the World Closed its Doors by Laurie Trautman and Edward Alden looks at how this international effort

25:12

Democrats in Olympia plan for massive budget gap

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2025/01/06

Washington lawmakers are facing an estimated $12 billion dollar budget deficit as they prepare to go back to work next week.How to cover that gap is the big story heading into the session. Majority Democrats are already floating possibilities for new taxes to bridge the difference between spending and revenue. And while the budget is undoubtedly the biggest challenge – lawmakers are also expected to be tackling sticky issues like rent increase caps and education funding. Guest: Washington

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A new governor, budget woes, and pickleball: KUOW's...

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2025/01/06

2025 is officially here - and with that comes a whole lotta new: new resolutions, new goals, and a new page a day pull away calendar on your desk at work. But even with all this new to look forward to - at least one thing will stay the same in 2025: we’ll be here to bring you the news coverage you rely on and trust every day. Soundside reached out to the KUOW newsroom to ask reporters about the big stories they’ll cover this year. Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this

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How Kenny G went from local fill-in to global...

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2025/01/03

He’s no longer rolling up to Franklin High School in a blue Oldsmobile Super 88 with homemade white wall tires, or knocking out accounting tests on the University of Washington campus, but Kenny G is still in touch with his Seattle roots -- even after selling more than 75 million records worldwide. The iconic sax-man played a run of sold-out shows at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley over the turn of the new year. In case you couldn’t make it to a show, the story of how Kenneth Gorelick of

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Soundside's Producer Picks: Jazz clubs, real-life...

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2024/12/31

Soundside will be off the air on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. We will be back with some fresh new stories Jan. 2. For today, we’ve revisiting a mix of some of Soundside producer Alec Cowan's favorite segments from this past year, including his patrol with a pair Seattle's "real-life superheroes" and the musicians keeping jazz music alive in Seattle. We also have one new story for you, courtesy of producer Jason Megatron Burrows.2024 was the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons

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Soundside looks back at the 50th Anniversary of D&D

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2024/12/30

The tabletop role playing game Dungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974. 5 decades later, there’s a new ‘edition’ of the game out, and D&D has changed dramatically from its origins in a little house in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The anniversary is happening at a delicate time for the company, Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro. Arguably the first modern tabletop role playing game is, today, fighting for market share – squaring off against a horde of

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Libby looks back on her favorite Soundside stories of...

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2024/12/27

The Soundside team is taking the week off to rest and prepare for some upcoming shows we’re working on in the new year. So in the meantime, we're going to revisit two of Libby's segments from 2024. And to do that, we're going backin time, to the Seattle of the 1990s. We’ll look back on the music of grunge band The Gits, and hear from the band’s former drummer about his decision to revisit and reclaim the group's history. And later, we’ll revisit the story of a bank robber

3:05

Your favorite sounds of the Pacific Northwest

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2024/12/20

All this week, Soundside has heard from local sound artists about their quintessential sounds of the Pacific Northwest. We’ve heard coyotes howling across the Methow Valley, the bygone squeak of a metro bus, and the rhythm of melting snow. Along the way we’ve asked for your favorite Northwest sounds. You sent us some good ones – the sound of North Cascades rain on a tent, and a chorus of frogs croaking in Marymoor Park. You also wrote in with your favorites: the grinding of

19:03

Looking back at the best local albums of 2024

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2024/12/20

Are your music listening habits stuck in a rut? Did you open your Spotify Wrapped and realize you listened to the same five songs on an endless loop? Maybe you want to mix it up in 2025, and become more acoustically adventurous. Soundside is here to help you out - we've rounded up a panel oflocal music experts to give you some fresh recommendations for albums to check out before we head into the new year. GUESTS: Bekah Flynn, senior publicist, international promotions manager, and A&R

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Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - Dec 20th-24th

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2024/12/19

Soundside is about to take a long and well deserved break, we’ve got some best-of shows planned for the holiday week, and we’re just generally excited to go DO some fun STUFF! And in that spirit, here’s somebody who has ALL the stuff worth doing: producer Jason Megatron Burrows with a few sneak peeks of things to keep you occupied through Christmas Day! LINKS: The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show Spokane Valley Summer Theatre - Big Band Christmas Bellingham's Holiday Dockside

25:24

Is it still possible to "fix" Congress? Outgoing...

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2024/12/19

After almost 20 years in public office, Derek Kilmer is stepping down from his role as U.S. Representative for WA's 6th district. The Representative was chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress - sometimes called the “Fix Congress Committee” - from 2019 to 2023. He’s also the former chair of the New Democrat Coalition - a caucus of centrist democrats with a pro-businesses, moderate approach to fiscal issues. In other words - he’s a guy who spent a lot of

10:16

Transit workers call for safety improvements after...

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2024/12/19

Around 3:00am today, a King County Metro driver was fatally stabbed near the 4100 block of University Way in Seattle’s U-District. At a press conference this morning, King County Executive Dow Constantine said that the loss is being felt by everyone in county transit. "We are not always able to keep what's happening out on the streets away from the transit that operates on those streets," said Constantine. "We are doing everything that we can, and will continue to ramp up our efforts, to make

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