Seattle Now

Police are legally allowed to lie as part of their jobs. But sometimes, those lies cross a line. Two incidents from the past five years have prompted city officials in Seattle to try and make a change. We’ll hear more about proposed limits to police deception from Seattle Times Reporter Sarah Grace Taylor.

Never underestimate the taco. Especially ones you can get in a gas station parking lot or maybe filled with spicy grasshoppers.

Today we’re heading out with Seattle Times food critic Tan Vinh to find out what he learned after eating 500 tacos in western Washington.

We visit two taquerias along the way, Taqueria Los Potrillos #1 in Rainier Valley and Casa Mixteca in Burien

This week…A middle housing bill passed the state senate and is on the way to changing Washington’s housing landscape. Amazon wants workers back in the office starting next month… if they can get their offices ready. And Starbucks says save your pennies from now on they’re gonna stop up charging you for some of that non-dairy milk. Writer and Seattle Times Columnist Marcus Harrison Green and KUOW’s Clare McGrane are here to break down the week.

Duplexes, fourplexes, sixplexes… oh my.

Hold on to your hockey skates, because the Kraken made the playoffs. That’s right, from 30th place last season to this year’s NHL postseason, the Seattle Kraken is the scrappy underdog of the hockey world. In case you haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, we’ll get you some help. Kraken radio play-by-play announcer Everett Fitzhugh is here to break the ice for first time fans.

The US Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court to put a hold on a Texas court ruling over access to the abortion medication mifepristone

Meanwhile here in Washington, lawmakers are hearing testimony on legislation that would create a pathway to distribute the more than 30 thousand dose stockpile we just purchased.

A new exhibit at the Wing Luke Museum looks at what happened to the neighborhoods that were disrupted to build I- 5. We’ll head over there with Leeching Tran who’s been in the CID for decades and talk to the writer and artist behind the exhibit Tessa Hulls.

In a minute we'll hear about the history of development and displacement in the neighborhood and how some of the same themes are showing up again in the fight over a new Sound Transit light rail station.

This week… Washington state purchased abortion pills to stay ahead of a ruling that could take them off the market. The state’s Attorney General stood up to major chicken producers about price-fixing, And the official sport of Washington is going corporate. Needling Editor-in-Chief Lex Vaughn and Your Last Meal Podcast Host Rachel Belle are here to break down the week.

Thousands of Apple Health enrollees are at risk of losing health care coverage now that pandemic protections for Medicaid have expired across the US.

That coverage gap will look different across the country. But in Washington… you may no longer meet the requirements or you could miss the deadline to reapply.

Aaron Katz is a Principal Lecturer Emeritus for the School of Public Health at University of Washington. He’ll walk us through some of the administrative hurdles and how the red tape may impact patients in our state/county.

Seeking abortion care in Idaho is about to get even harder.

New legislation in Idaho makes it a crime to assist a minor with abortion care in another state without parental consent.

And that has legal implications for providers in Washington.

Legal Voice Washington Policy Counsel Alizeh Bhojani is here to explain.