After an eight-year legal battle that culminated in a ruling in his favor by the U.S. Supreme Court, Bremerton High School’s praying football coach, Joe Kennedy, returns to the sidelines Friday and he is ready to both pray and play, at least for one game.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/praying-coach-returns-to-the-sidelines-in-bremerton-at-least-for-now
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https://www.kuow.org/stories/should-the-u-s-enact-age-limits-for-elected-officials
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Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Times Jonathan Martin, PubliCola’s Erica Barnett, and Puget Sound Business Journal’s Alex Halverson.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/week-in-review-amazon-sound-transit-and-cannabis
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Labor activists and farm workers gathered in downtown Seattle Thursday afternoon demonstrating for the right to organize a union at a mushroom farm in Central Washington.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/wa-mushroom-farmworkers-fight-for-the-right-to-unionize
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Certain spiders are so big, they make even the most spider-friendly humans leap off the couch, and those spiders, appropriately named “giant house spiders,” are on the move this time of year, looking for a mate.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/giant-house-spiders-they-re-big-they-re-fast-and-they-re-on-the-move-but-uh-don-t-worry
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Justin Knutsen his wife and children had mere minutes to escape their home in Elk, Wash., as the Oregon Road Fire bore down on them.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/oregon-road-fire-survivor-recounts-harrowing-escape
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Bike culture is as deeply ingrained in Seattle’s identity as coffee and Birkenstocks. But with our rainy weather and hilly terrain, Seattle — at least on paper — should’ve never become the biking haven that it is today. That’s the unlikely history that Tom Fucoloro, founder of the Seattle Bike Blog and author of “Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from Behind the Handlebars," set out to explore.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/how-did-seattle-become-a-biking-city
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If you're looking for tips on how to experience art in the Seattle area, you're in the right place. In this weekly post, KUOW reporter Mike Davis has suggestions for what to do around Seattle over the weekend so you can have your own adventures in arts and culture.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/mike-s-adventures-in-art-pax-bumbershoot-midsummer-night-s-dream
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KUOW Arts & Culture reporter Mike Davis dives into what makes PAX aka the "Penny-Arcade Expo" tick with two of the people who make it happen: Co-Founder Jerry Holkins & VP of Events Ryan Hartman
https://www.kuow.org/stories/pax-west-2023-brings-nintendo-live-to-seattle
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Zack McGill was guiding a group of climbers down from the icy summit of Washington’s Mount Baker when he saw something few have seen: torso-sized boulders rocketing down the mountain at about 40 miles an hour.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/rocketing-boulders-dwindling-streams-the-toll-of-washington-s-shriveling-glaciers
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New research finds that “cannabis use disorder” is common in Washington state, where weed has been legal for more than a decade.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/new-study-1-in-5-washington-cannabis-users-show-signs-of-addiction
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The process of becoming a U.S. citizen is often a long and complicated one. RadioActive’s Eva Solorio talked with a family member about his journey to becoming an American citizen after immigrating from Mexico at eight years old.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/being-a-citizen-means-you-are-free-one-immigrant-s-journey-toward-american-citizenship
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Teachers are striking in the Camas and Evergreen school districts near Vancouver. It affects over 30,000 students.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/southwest-washington-teacher-strikes-delay-start-of-school
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The Biden White house has announced plans to negotiate lower prices on 10 drugs, which could save seniors here a lot of cash. The medications are used to treat a range of health problems including blood cancers, diabetes, heart failure and arthritis.
And they’re spendy: Nationally, the 10 drugs cost people on Medicare around $3.4 billion in out-of-pocket expenses last year, according to the White House.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/white-house-plan-to-cut-prescription-drug-prices-could-cut-costs-for-over-100-000-washington-seniors
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Spokane’s mayoral office is technically non-partisan. But controversy surrounding an embrace shared between Mayor Nadine Woodward and disgraced former state Rep. Matt Shea underscores how politics are anything but missing from the race.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/the-race-for-spokane-mayor-just-got-more-complicated
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ACLU of Washington political director Alison Holcomb details the history of the ban and its rationale.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/cannabis-you-can-buy-it-so-why-can-t-you-grow-it
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The case for the four-day work week is mounting, but most employers remain unconvinced. That could change as companies grapple with the rising cost of labor and a shortage of workers.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/most-workers-want-a-4-day-work-week-here-s-what-might-make-employers-come-around
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"Our firefighting operations are more important than those 12 likes you'll get on Instagram."
https://www.kuow.org/stories/wildfires-continue-to-burn-across-washington-state-so-stop-with-the-drones
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In menstrual product advertisements, companies often use a light blue liquid as a stand-in for blood, to demonstrate the absorbency of their products. It turns out most companies use a similar stand-in for menstrual product testing: saline solution. We talked to the doctor behind the first-ever period product study using real blood about why this research matters.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/for-the-first-time-researchers-test-period-products-with-actual-blood
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Tokitae was the last Southern Resident Orca kept in a marine park. She died unexpectanly on August 18 at the Miami Seaquarium.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/lummi-elder-tells-story-of-last-time-she-sang-to-tokitae
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