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Will closing schools really balance the budget for Seattle Public Schools? Parents have their doubts

Seattle Public Schools parents will get more details next week on the district's proposal to close up to 20 elementary schools by the fall of 2025.
Sami West
Friday Evening Headlines

Seattle Police puts an assistant chief on leave, most Washington voters are undecided in the upcoming gubernatorial election, and conservationists stop a plan for a new West Seattle pickleball court. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
Paige Browning

Vaughan Jones
Gay and bisexual men can donate blood and organs but not tissue like corneas
Rae Ellen Bichell
'We built this together.' The 20-year legacy of KUOW's RadioActive

Late last month, KUOW announced the station was ending its RadioActive Youth Media program. For 20 years, RadioActive brought listeners the stories and perspectives of young people in the Pacific Northwest. Soundside producer Noel Gasca reflects on what the program has meant to the over 6,000 youth who participated - and what will be lost.
Libby Denkmann

Noel Gasca
Washington tribes get $39.4 million for salmon habitat restoration, culvert removal efforts
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
What we know and what we don't about a historic settlement to pay college athletes
Becky Sullivan
It’s a no to pickleball and a yes to wildlife for Seattle’s Lincoln Park

After almost a year of campaigning, wildlife advocates in Seattle were handed a win this week. A city plan to place six pickleball courts on a disused tennis court pad in Lincoln Park in West Seattle has been scrapped.
Kate Walters
Low-income families in Washington can get free air conditioning, but time is running out

This summer could be a scorcher in Washington. Low-income families in the state have about a month left to get free air conditioning units.
Eilis O'Neill
Abortion can be difficult to talk about. These 14 strangers took it on anyway
Maayan Silver
Week in Review: Timothy Rankin, Tanya Woo, and OSPI

Guest host Mike Lewis discusses the week’s news with The Needling’s Lex Vaughn, Republican strategist Randy Pepple, and Seattle Times columnist Claudia Rowe.
Kevin Kniestedt

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