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This week, the team covers flooding, public transit, a measles outbreak and debate over security cameras in the state's third most populous county.
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Paris Jackson is the host of The Newsfeed. She’s an Emmy Award-winning journalist who's spent more than 15 years in commercial television and public media.
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SCHEDULED APPEARANCES
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In an interview with Host Paris Jackson, Wilson talks homelessness, policing, preparing for federal intrusion, and ”moving the needle” on quality of life.
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Lawmakers continue to weigh a millionaire's tax, new limitations on AI chatbots and stronger protections for immigrants and voting rights.
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This week, The Newsfeed team attends the memorial of a celebrated Black historian, revisits King County's naming and reads the Mother of Afrofuturism.
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Evans talks community court, drug diversion and Donald Trump in an interview with host Paris Jackson.
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This week, we talk to an immigration attorney, a county sheriff and people organizing to respond to ICE enforcement.
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The nonprofit offers support and mentorship to kids and foster parents on the Olympic Peninsula
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Lawmakers must contend with a $2.3 billion budget deficit this year, and may have to consider tapping into various reserve funds to fill the gap.
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Brown is the first Black Attorney General to lead the office. He tells us what that means to him, and what he hopes it means to Washingtonians.
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During Brown's first year in office, Washington state has pushed back against federal actions on immigration, education, the environment and more.
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Evergreen Treatment Services helps about 3,000 people a day, and works with the City of Seattle and law enforcement to connect people with care.
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Knute Berger's award-winning show on Northwest history chronicled doll espionage, the mysterious Mima Mounds and a free speech riot.
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Children of the Setting Sun Productions, which drew thousands in Seattle for their event honoring elders, is developing a new Bellingham headquarters.
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One local political analyst thinks affordability issues and frustration with the federal agenda on immigration and LGBTQ+ rights powered a progressive wave.
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Douglas Galuszka claims he was fired for publicly alleging mold, leaks and other issues at a now-closed South Seattle Veterans Affairs building.
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Two years into an ordinance intended to push folks to treatment, King County Department of Public Defense data shows hundreds have been prosecuted instead.
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Gov. Ferguson announced plans to route $2.2M weekly to local food banks, as residents stand to lose food stamps on Nov. 1 amid the federal shutdown.
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Immigration attorney Larkin VanDerhoef says the Northwest ICE Processing Center is at or near capacity, creating numerous issues at the GEO group-run facility.
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Incumbent Bruce Harrell and challenger Katie Wilson are turning to short-form videos, podcasts and influencers in a bid to reach younger voters.
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Plus, the Campus Parkway Corridor in Seattle’s U District hosts the new living gallery “MexArt 2025” to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
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The film explores the relationship between a cowboy in Eastern Washington working to protect wolves and a rancher trying to protect his cattle.
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The owners of Estelita’s Library are fundraising for their next ambitious endeavor, a nearly $28M affordable-housing development on Beacon Hill.
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Along the two-mile route from Pioneer Square to Belltown, attendees can enjoy live music, dance and more by over 100 local performers.
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In mid-August, a new Opioid Recovery and Care Access (ORCA) Center opened on the second floor of the Downtown Emergency Service Center in Seattle.
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The U.S. Attorney General sent a letter asking how Washington plans to eliminate policies or programs that conflict with federal immigration enforcement.
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A Cascade PBS/KNKX investigation found that AI was used to help write emails to constituents, mayoral letters and other government communications.
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Though the Clark County Sheriff’s Office declined to investigate Rotschy Inc. for the 2023 incident, the county prosecutor is still reviewing the case.
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After a utility-sparked fire decimated the area in 2020, delayed disaster funds and legal battles leave some in the rural Washington town in limbo.
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At the 2025 Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, we asked attendees to share their thoughts about what's going on in our city and the nation.
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“Our state is so diverse... To see how artists are translating that or interpreting that is endlessly interesting to me,” says series host Brangien Davis.
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In a live taping of 'Your Last Meal,' Jayapal shares how her experience as an immigrant and an organizer influenced her affinity for world cuisines.
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A first-of-its-kind event, Reclaiming Wellness aims to break down barriers to mental health and destigmatize it in Black and brown communities.
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In a live taping of The Journal podcast, host Ryan Knutson talks with Steves about the value of travel and Americans’ reception abroad in 2025.
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In a live taping of the Criminal podcast, host Phoebe Judge speaks with Knox about her new memoir and how a murder accusation redefined her life.
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Though a federal judge blocked a Trump order requiring birth sex on federal IDs, some still find it difficult to update their documents.
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In a live taping of Radiolab, co-host Latif Nasser and guest Rebecca Lemov discuss prominent examples of indoctrination and their modern implications.
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House Bill 1217, which established annual rent caps for the first time in state history, came after years of mobile homeowner organizing and advocacy.
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In a live taping of ‘The Gist’ podcast, the authors of “Original Sin” — a book questioning the former president’s health — share their findings.
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The May event hosted conversations on the harms of big tech; the First Amendment during Trump 2.0; America’s growing global isolation; and more.
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In a live taping of the ‘Open to Debate’ podcast, commentator Brandi Kruse and legal scholar Nadine Strossen examine the state of the First Amendment.
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Tens of thousands mobilized across the Pacific Northwest on June 14, along with millions nationwide, in protest of President Donald Trump’s policies.
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In a live taping of CCN's One Thing, Flake speaks with host David Rind about a post-Trump era and his hopes for a party of governance, not grievance.
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A request from President Trump to rescind $9.4B in funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and foreign aid is moving through Congress.
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In a live taping of WNYC’s On the Media, author and activist Cory Doctorow argues that tech giants have chased profits at the expense of users.
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Washington is known as a leader in environmental conservation, but its goal of creating large-scale green energy projects is not without complications.
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Author, comedian and former U.S. Senator Al Franken has a unique resume. One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he won five Emmys, wrote several comedic books on politics and represented Minnesota as a U.S. Senator from 2009 to 2018.
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Well, that’s a wrap! The 2025 Cascade PBS Ideas Festival took place in downtown Seattle on May 31. But the event’s thoughtful conversations, lively debates and incisive commentary are all coming soon to your podcast feeds.
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For months, the Cascade PBS Investigations team has been following a volunteer group who independently track flights transporting ICE detainees.
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Volunteers have long offered assistance outside Tacoma’s Northwest ICE Processing Center. They now face new urgency amid federal deportation efforts.
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One of the big priorities this session was closing the state’s anticipated $15B budget shortfall, which lawmakers did via cuts and new taxes.
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Community Health Plan of Washington CEO Leanne Berge says proposed cuts would be devastating to Washington’s vulnerable citizens.
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The docuseries Origins: Refuge After War examined the parallels between the aftermath of the Vietnam War and the U.S.’s 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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The organization has seen an influx in rights-training requests from groups statewide to help equip them for interactions with immigration enforcement.
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"Black to the Bigs" examines the nation’s favorite pastime as the amount of African American professional baseball players dwindles.
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At Seattle Asian Art Museum, world-renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei shows his massive toy-brick homage to the impressionist painter.
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Team Chill Out 1778, a mix of students from freshmen to seniors, practices 5 to 7 days a week with the goal of competing internationally.
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Filmmaker Samuel Wolfe shares what sparked his curiosity about the centuries-old fishing technique and who still practices it on the Salish Sea today.
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Washington relies mostly on local funding for criminal prosecution and defense, creating an unbalanced system that some call “justice by geography.”
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Angelique Davis explains how the President’s executive orders on diversity policies could be a diversion tactic and a form of “racial gaslighting.”
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After almost two decades of planning, complications with a housing developer have left the small Central Washington city on the brink of bankruptcy.
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Ideas Festival
CASCADE PBS IDEAS FESTIVAL
The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event in Seattle, featuring live podcasts and studio television recordings. Journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world take on hot topics making news and the biggest issues of our time.
Join us on June 6th at our new locations in the historic Fremont Neighborhood- including Fremont Studios, PICKLR, and Hidden Hall. The first round of speakers and podcasts will be announced on April 6th. Cascade PBS members get an early release on April 2nd.
PODCASTS & TELEVISION
Podcasts from around the country come to Seattle to record live sessions that are recorded for broadcast and streaming on Cascade PBS; including publications like The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Vox, CNN, Pushkin, NPR, Cascade PBS, and more.
LISTEN & WATCH
Watch conversations on Cascade PBS Ideas Festival ON DEMAND. Listen to full length podcast editions of all festival conversations HERE.
SPEAKERS
The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival has hosted hundreds of speakers such as Jane Goodall, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Malcolm Gladwell, Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, Macklemore, Judy Woodruff, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Senator Jeff Flake, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Senator Jon Tester, Jake Tapper, Ross Douthat, Al Franken, Attorney General Eric Holder, Michael Barbaro, Carl Bernstein, Ezra Klein, Amanda Knox, Matt Damon, Dahlia Lithwick, Heather Cox Richardson, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Governor Christine Todd Whitman.
MORE TO DO
In addition to the live podcasts and television taping, Elliott Bay Book Company hosts a pop up bookstore with all the speaker books available. Attendees can meet the speakers in a Q&A Corner after each session, or share thoughts and make community with fellow attendees at After Show Meetups. There are also food trucks, interactive installations, a happy hour and live DJ.
CONNECT WITH US
Interested in learning more? Reach us at events@cascadepbs.org
