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After explosive pandemic growth, tech companies are retrenching.

Including Amazon.

The company announced a hiring freeze for its corporate workforce last week.

New York Times Technology Correspondent Karen Weise explains.

Election day is in the rear view mirror and we’ve got early returns. KUOW's Paige Browning breaks it down.

It is election day, and just like in 2020, misinformation is a big issue. That's particularly true for many of Seattle's immigrant communities. Language barriers and historical influences.

UW researcher Sarah Nguyen will tell us about the misinformation targeting Seattle’s Vietnamese community this election cycle.

White suburban women are one of the key groups of voters who will decide this midterm election. Traditionally, it’s a demographic that’s hard to pin down. And this year, inflation and abortion are shifting the votes, making it hard for candidates to tell who’s got the vote. UW assistant teaching professor and political consultant Cathy Allen will give us some insight.

The midterm elections are only a few days away, but it seems many folks are tuning out this year. One reason to tune in: Republican Tiffany Smiley is giving longtime Washington Senator Patty Murray a run for her money. The race is getting national attention.

Plus, we're grapplin

Seattle lost a country music pioneer earlier this week. Patrick Haggerty passed away on Monday. Haggerty wrote and recorded the first openly gay country music album in 1973, and lived as a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+, civil, and worker’s rights. Longtime KEXP DJ and LGBTQ+ community advocate Kurt B. Reighley is here to talk about his impact on Seattle art and politics.

Just outside Seattle in Washington’s 8th district, there’s a tight race playing out in the midterms.

Democratic incumbent Kim Schrier is up against Republican Matt Larkin for a seat that could shift control of Congress.

Historically the 8th has voted red, but that changed in 2018 with Schrier's win, and now it looks like it's up for grabs again.

KUOW political reporter David Hyde is here to bring us up to speed on this race.

Basic income programs have been all the rage in policy circle, and Tacoma just tried it out.

The city has been running a guaranteed income pilot, called GRIT.

The program gave 110 low-income families money each month to help them with expenses they otherwise would not likely be able to afford.

Abigail Lawson is the director of GRIT, Tacoma's guaranteed income pilot, and she shares what she learned.

Today is Halloween, but tomorrow marks the start of the two-day holiday of Día de los Muertos. A Latinx-owned art gallery in White Center has been celebrating all month by displaying work from 40 artists inspired by the holiday. Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery co-founders Jake Prendez and Judy Avitia-Gonzalez are here to talk about Día de los Muertos’ significance, and how the holiday has grown in Seattle.

This week Halloween costumes got a little meta sometimes deviating in the hyper specific, Rep. Pramila Jayapal accidentally hit send on a letter to President Biden, and we’re staying up late…. at the 24 hour pottery studio.

We’re breaking down the week with Crosscut’s Hannah Weinberger and KUOW’s Katie Campbell