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Legislative lookahead: Deadline looms for bills unrelated to budget

The first big deadline of Washington's Legislative session is coming up. That's when non-budget related bills need to pass out of committee - if they're going to survive to see another day.
Paige Browning

Austin Jenkins
Politics

This week in politics: Seattle elections 'officially in full swing'

After a short breather from local politics, some 2021 Seattle City Hall races are starting to heat up. Seattle City Council President Lorena Gonzalez joined Colleen Echohawk in the race for mayor this week. And there’s still speculation that former Council President Bruce Harrell and former state Representative Jessyn Farrell could run.
Paige Browning

Katie Campbell
Politics

Lorena González joins race for Seattle mayor

Today Lorena González joins the race for Seattle mayor. González is a former civil rights lawyer, who travels mostly in the left lanes of Seattle politics, and promises "bold, transformative action” on issues including homelessness and affordable housing.
David Hyde
Politics

This week in politics: The races for Seattle mayor and the coronavirus vaccine

We now have a race for Seattle mayor. Meanwhile, politics are colliding with a medical ethics debate over who should get the coronavirus next.
Paige Browning

Katie Campbell
Arts & Life

Film: Curiosity Club Turns Strangers into a Community Following a Fraught Election

KUOW brings together ten strangers for a virtual dinner party to talk about pandemic roller skating, the #MeToo movement, and Seattle's shifting political landscape.
Kristin Leong
Race & Identity

Empathize with Trump voters? A Progressive and a Libertarian agree to disagree

Two multiracial Biden voters in Seattle meet at Curiosity Club and learn that a political disagreement can be the start of a conversation instead of the end of one.
Kristin Leong
Politics

New redistricting maps will determine Washington state’s future

It may seem like an obscure act of cartography, but how Washington State’s political maps are redrawn this year will help determine who gets elected and, in turn, the future of the state.
David Hyde
Politics

This week in politics: The 'civil war' inside the state and national GOP

Unity is the theme of the week - at least, that's the way the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, put it at the inauguration. So, what's going on with the Washington State Republican Party?
Angela King

Katie Campbell
Politics

Washington's Republican Secretary of State may quit the GOP

False claims that Democrats stole the 2020 led to threats of violence against Washington’s secretary of State Kim Wyman and her staff. “My elections director this week is with her family at an undisclosed location, because she's worried about her own safety,” she said. Wyman also said she might leave the Republican Party.
David Hyde
Politics

January 11th | In the fallout of DC riots, misinformation and protests begin to spread

We catch up with KUOW reporters outside and inside the Washington State Capitol building on the legislative opening day. Experts explain what social media's unprecedented move to de-platform the President means for the future of the internet. And in more uplifting news, a smellicopter gets its wings.
Bill Radke

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