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Chinatown-International District grapples with losing 2 community newspapers and ‘their voice’

Two Seattle newspapers focused on the Asian community stopped printing this month. Many advocates and residents of the Chinatown-International District say they fear they’ll be left without a voice and a way to safely advocate for their neighborhood.
Natalie Akane Newcomb
Oil, homesteading, and a complicated family legacy: Erika Bolstad's 'Windfall'

Journalist Erika Bolstad inherited the right to drill oil under part of her great-grandmother's homestead in North Dakota. Instead, she dug up the truth behind family legends and wrestled with the ethics of land ownership and fossil fuels in the American West.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan
Lighting the way for 150 years: Yaquina Head Lighthouse prepares for sesquicentennial

The stewards of Oregon's tallest lighthouse are sprucing up the popular landmark on Oregon's central coast for its 150th anniversary in 2023.
Tom Banse
A musician's love for Olympia inspires a 40-song album

There are many things that inspire people to write songs, and for local musician Tom Dyer it was his hometown of Olympia. He was so inspired that he wrote not just one song about the state capitol, but 40. They make up his latest album, Olympia - A True Story. He shared an account of the album’s genesis and creation with KUOW’s “Soundside.”
Alex Rochester

Libby Denkmann
Hear it again: A picture is worth a thousand words

This Thanksgiving week we’re revisiting some of our best stories of the year so far. Today, we’re looking back on our favorite segments about images and the stories they tell about us.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan

Mike Davis
A 'force to be reckoned with,' remembering REI seamstress Delia Cano

Today, REI has over 15,000 employees, but in the early 1960s, one employee, Delia Cano, a Peruvian immigrant to Seattle, was responsible for sewing many of their earliest products. She recently passed, and KUOW’s Soundside spoke with two of her children about her personal and professional legacy.
Libby Denkmann

Sarah Leibovitz

Alex Rochester
'Relevance beyond the personal,' Seattle author recounts sexism, discrimination in medical field

As a young teenager, local author Patricia Grayhall recalls believing she was the only lesbian in Arizona. Her new memoir recounts her struggle to earn a medical degree, explore her sexuality, and weather the sexism and discrimination rampant in the medical field of the 1970s.
Libby Denkmann

Sarah Leibovitz
The untold history of migrant labor in the Pacific Northwest

Author and historian Megan Asaka tells the story of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and indigenous laborers in her book Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City.
Libby Denkmann

Noel Gasca

Hans Anderson
Archaeologists on surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in vanished Oregon lumber company town

The classic black-and-white photos from early decades of the American West often fail to capture the diversity of the people who came here. Chinese migrants helped build the railroads and were big in gold mining. Basque people from Spain became known for sheep herding. The first Filipino cannery workers arrived around the turn of the last century. Now, Oregon archaeologists are on the surprising trail of Japanese families who lived in a now-vanished lumber company town.
Tom Banse
Week in Review: Carmen Best, student mental health, and a giant crane

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Crosscut’s Mai Hoang, South Seattle Emerald’s Mike Davis, and Kitsap Sun’s Josh Farley.
Bill Radke

Kevin Kniestedt

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