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After 3 long years, the Stranger has a new print edition. Their quarterly arts and performance magazine is here for the Spring. Stranger arts editor Megan Seling, is here to explain why a print edition is back now and what you can look forward to seeing inside.

It's officially spring. So, we thought we’d start the week off with a few ideas for how to spend these longer spring days around our city.

This week… The tech and wine industries were rocked by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. The state is attempting to bring some equity to the cannabis market by opening up new licenses.

And the cherry trees at the Pike Place Market were cut down. But they're gonna put new ones in…so it’s all good?

KUOW arts reporter Mike Davis and producer Vaughan Jones are here to break down the week.

The missing link of the Burke-Gilman Trail has long been the White Whale for Seattle’s cycling community. One potential solution, putting in a trail on Shilshole Ave NW, has been subject to almost three decades of political and legal gridlock. Now, 6th District Councilmember Dan Strauss thinks he’s finally found a way. KUOW reporter Casey Martin is here to talk us through Strauss’s proposed plan.

Local tech start-ups and even the Washington wine industry had a few tense days following the Silicon Valley Bank failure.

Now they’re looking for answers right alongside the Fed who’s stepped in to investigate.

Seattle Times reporter Paul Roberts is here to talk about how SVB failed and what it means for local tech customers.

Democratic lawmakers in Olympia are working on a strategy to tackle drug possession that balances law enforcement and diversion.

Senate Bill 5536 would allow people with substance use disorder an opportunity to choose treatment over jail time.

But supporters say it will require a major investment for an airtight plan. And time is of the essence, the current law on the books expires this summer.

KUOW reporter Amy Radil joins us today to walk us through where the senate bill is at today.

Hopefully you remembered that Daylight Saving Time started yesterday and you set your clock an hour forward. The time change elicits feelings in these parts.

We’ll hear from UW sleep expert Horacio de la Iglesia and check in with some of the city's early risers about how they feel.

This week… Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell paused a plan to take down the cherry trees outside of pike place market. A plan that would bring more housing density to our state now heads to the senate. And Seattle is the setting for the latest season of love is blind. KUOW’s Katie Campbell and Seattle Times columnist Naomi Ishisaka are here to break down the week.

Throughout the early-to-mid 20th century, Washington state was home to 15 Native American boarding schools. The schools have been the source of cultural erasure and generational trauma for Native people for over a century. But the specifics of what went on in those schools has been largely ignored or forgotten by many, including government officials. KUOW Investigative Team members Ashley Hiruko and Isolde Raftery have been collecting information and stories about what went on at these schools, and they’ve spoken with survivors and their families.

Around here, when you think forest, you think towering Evergreen trees.

But an equally important forest sits within Puget Sound.

The state’s kelp forests play a critical role supporting fish and sea life in the Northwest, but they’ve been on the decline for the last 10 years.

Northwest News Network correspondent Tom Banse is here to talk about how the state is working to restore kelp and eelgrass along the coastline.