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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Wave of book bans strikes U.S. How local librarians and book lovers are responding
Sara Strite says she would rather not stand in front of Kent School District headquarters in the rain at seven a.m. But she'll do it if it means keeping books in school libraries.
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Tacoma Public Libraries are ‘more than brick and mortar’
What happens when the library gets shut down? For one thing, the need for a library does not go away.
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Washington DOL's data was breached. How to protect yourself
On Friday, the Washington State Department of Licensing announced that a possible data breach may have exposed more than a quarter million people’s personal information to scammers. How can you protect yourself from a data breach?
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Algorithms constantly make hard decisions online. Can they ever be truly ethical?
What happens when a search engine runs into a question? Say, is it rude to accept a phone call in a meeting? Is 10% a bad tip? Or is climate change real? Using a lot of computing power, websites like Google give us answers to any question we ask within seconds. But how does an algorithm know where to direct us, especially for our thorniest of questions?
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In Olympia, magic mushrooms are a no-go, and 'missing middle' housing pushes forward
Lawmakers in Olympia are officially halfway through this year's legislative session. What's made it forward?
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Utilities in Washington are tackling the clean energy to-do list
Washington State is making strides on its long to-do list toward clean energy.
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A mystery we couldn't resist: Why is KUOW causing Mazda stereos to glitch?
Starting last week, reports began trickling in, via email, phone calls, and reddit, that when people tuned to our station in their Mazda, things got weird. It's a mystery we couldn't resist -- KUOW's Casey Martin looked into it.
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Re-airing: Crying in H-Mart
Our connections to books can be deeply personal. We cling to the characters that feel like friends, or reflect pieces of ourselves. But how do you translate your reading experience and the connections you feel with a book into music?
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Wahkiakum School District sues WA over its education funding model
Wahkiakum County sits just north of the Columbia River on the Oregon border. It’s Washington’s smallest county, where the medium income sits just around $36,000 a year. If you go to school there, you’re learning in old buildings, oftentimes operating thanks to duct tape and chicken wire solutions.
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Whatcom County, in recovery, braces for more floods
FEMA is setting up in Whatcom County after the November floods wreaked havoc on neighborhoods, destroyed homes and businesses, and killed one man. While towns are still recovering, they are also preparing for the next potential flood.
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Spotify was larger than life — until it wasn't
Millions of people use the streaming platform for podcasts and music. But controversy over Joe Rogan, a darling for the company, has changed the public's tune in recent weeks.
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What can be done about the "missing middle" of housing in Washington?
Legislators are in the middle of tackling a massive hot-button issue: housing density.