Soundside
Get to know the PNW and each other. Soundside airs Monday through Thursday at 12 p.m. and 8 p.m. on KUOW. Listen to Soundside on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Additional Credits: Logo art is designed by Teo Popescu. Audio promotions are produced by Hans Twite. Community engagement led by Zaki Hamid. Our Director of New Content and Innovation is Brendan Sweeney.
Mission Statement:
Soundside believes establishing trust with our listeners involves taking the time to listen.
We know that building trust with a community takes work. It involves broadening conversations, making sure our show amplifies systemically excluded voices, and challenging narratives that normalize systemic racism.
We want Soundside to be a place where you can be part of the dialogue, learn something new about your own backyard, and meet your neighbors from the Peninsula to the Palouse.
Together, we’ll tell stories that connect us to our community — locally, nationally and globally. We’ll get to know the Pacific Northwest and each other.
What do you think Soundside should be covering? Where do you want to see us go next?
Leave us a voicemail! You might hear your call on-air: 206-221-3213
Share your thoughts directly with the team at soundside@kuow.org.
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Episodes
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'It's been a rough two years.' Seattle MLB stadium workers have some demands of their own
It’s been 96 days since the Major League Baseball lockout began. Last week, the Major League Baseball commissioner— Rob Manfred canceled the first two series of the regular season. Now, the earliest the baseball season will start is the second week of April. The financial impact of the delay is already being felt across each stadium.
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Visiting the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial
On Bainbridge Island, just across Eagle Harbor from the ferry terminal in Winslow, there sits an idyllic 8-acre site, with water lapping at a small dock and light filtering down through towering trees. But the beauty of the space belies its dark history.
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What do you do when there's no local news source? You make one
Between 2004 and 2019 more than a quarter of the country’s newspapers disappeared. Here in Washington, people are trying to fix that.
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Marking the 80th anniversary of Executive Order 9066
80 years ago this month, the U.S. government forced 227 Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans out of their homes and businesses on Bainbridge Island.
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Executive Dow Constantine answers criticism and questions around King County's hotel housing program
King County Executive Dow Constantine sits down with Soundside guest host Jeannie Yandel to answer listener questions about King County's new Health through Housing purchase, homelessness in the county, rising crime rates, and more.
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How the Olympic marmot became Washington's fuzziest state symbol
Washington state is known for its variety of flora and fauna. But there's one animal that doesn't get the same kind of love — the Olympic marmot.
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Charting change in the U District through one of its most beloved restaurants
Taso Lagos first immigrated to Seattle with his family from Greece when he was just nine years old. For 40 years, this family constellated around the Continental Restaurant on University Way NE, near the University of Washington.
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Soundside's listener corner: safety in downtown Seattle
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Seattle business leaders weigh in on reports of crime on the rise
From vandalism to theft, store owners across the city of Seattle say they are worried about a rise in crime. And the reasons for the rise, much like the experiences, vary.
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Seattle's eviction moratorium expired. What happens now?
The Seattle City Council voted 5-3 last week against another proposal to extend the moratorium. After being in place for two years, Seattle’s eviction moratorium ends today. Tenant lawyers say renters behind on payment could see an eviction notice as early as this week.
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'Nobody believed that this would happen.' The war in Ukraine from Seattle
After weeks of signaling and buildup of troops and equipment, Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In other words, Vladimir Putin has ordered likely the largest conventional military action in Europe since World War II. KUOW's Soundside heard from several Seattleites about their view of what's happening in Ukraine.
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Local business says it's ready to say goodbye to mandatory masking
There are a lot of changes coming our way. King County is ending its vaccine mandate, Washington state is ending it's mask one. How are local businesses handling these changes?