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Seattle Now is KUOW's flagship daily news podcast. Seattle Now brings you quick headlines, smart analysis, and award-winning local news. New episodes every weekday morning and afternoon. Start and end your day with Seattle Now, from KUOW and the NPR Network.

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Episodes

  • Monday Evening Headlines

    Did fraudulent sign-ins make the 'millionaire's tax' look unpopular? We remember gun safety advocate Cheryl Stumbo, and we celebrate NW athletes who won medals at the Olympics.

  • Blackpast.org looks to its future

    This year marks the first Black History month BlackPast.org has faced without its founder Dr. Quintard Taylor. The site was created in Seattle almost 20 years ago and it continues to preserve and protect Black history. We’ll get into how the site is facing both old and new challenges to the legitimacy of Black history with BlackPast Executive Director LaNesha McCoy DeBardelaben.

  • Weekend Listen: King County Prosecutors Office prepares for a potential immigration enforcement surge

    Today, we’re bringing you the best from another KUOW show, Soundside… Like local officials everywhere, King County is navigating a shifting relationship with the federal government and the possibility that an immigration enforcement surge could happen here. Soundside’s Libby Denkmann spoke to Leesa Manion and Gary Ernsdorff from the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s office.

  • Friday Evening Headlines

    WA lawmakers react to SCOTUS tariff ruling, Tukwila considers ban on building new detention facilities, and crime victim advocates worry about funding cuts.

  • Casual Friday with Geraldine DeRuiter and Jason Burrows

    This week… Seattle has cleared the path for cafes and corner stores on residential streets. The Seattle Torrent have their fingerprints all over Team USA Women's Hockey. And Seattle knows how to party… But the city says we left behind a bunch of trash at the Seahawks parade. Author and blogger Geraldine DeRuiter and KUOW Producer Jason Burrows are here to break down the week.

  • Thursday Evening Headlines

    Nurses want ICE agents out of St. Joseph Hospital in Tacoma, WA lawmakers are tackling AI safeguards for kids, and Bruce Lee gets a Forever Stamp.

  • No one loves a Bellevue FOR LEASE sign like an AI company

    Some of the biggest names in AI are setting up shop in Bellevue. It’s a blow for Seattle, where city leaders have worked to attract new tech innovators to combat high levels of office vacancies. Puget Sound Business Journal tech reporter Jason Pasion will tell us what’s so attractive about Bellevue.

  • Wednesday Evening Headlines

    Mayor Wilson pledges to expand homeless shelter beds, the Seahawks are officially up for sale, and WA's snowpack is looking bleak.

  • The Seattle Convention Center can't survive on Comic Con alone

    The Seattle Convention Center takes up more than one-point-five million square feet of real estate downtown… It brings the possibility of year-round tourism, and extra business for the surrounding hotels, bars and restaurants. Despite hosting more events than ever before, the corporation behind the convention center says the financial situation is “fragile.” Seattle Times Reporter David Kroman will tell us why

  • Tuesday Evening Headlines

    Mayor Wilson delivers her first State of the City speech, WA Senate passes 'millionaires tax,' and Seattle's City Attorney ends a policy that prevented one judge from hearing criminal cases.

  • Gun violence in King County is trending down, but there's still work to do

    Gun violence is painful.  The grief for families and neighbors lasts long past the headlines. The King County Prosecutors office thinks data can help with solutions.  Since 2016, the office has collected data quarterly about where gun violence occurs and who is being affected. The latest report has some interesting findings.  KUOW’s Amy Radil will break down the numbers and what they might mean.

  • Credit scores are mysterious. Here’s some insight into them

    Credit scores are pretty mysterious, but they also shape your economic destiny. It determines where you can live, what you can buy, and sometimes even what job you can get. But how do credit bureaus come up with these all-encompassing numbers? This President's Day we turn to KUOW's newest podcast Control F where host Teo Popescu tells host Clare McGrane about the data that credit scores feed on, and how little we really know about how they're calculated.