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Washington state lawmakers are scrambling to respond to a recent Supreme court decision that could vacate thousands of drug possession cases stretching back decades. Bill Radke spoke with KUOW reporter Amy Radil about the response from critics and how this decision is impacting people with convictions.

Votes from the Amazon warehouse in Alabama where workers voted whether to unionize are still being counted. The New York Times says this vote could alter the shape of the labor movement and one of America’s largest private employers. Bill Radke spoke with Karen Weise, a Seattle-based technology correspondent for NYTimes about this story.

The votes are in and counting begins. We hear about how organizing 6,000 laborers could alter and favor the labor movement. Drug laws in Washington state are changing, what would rolling out decriminalization mean for current cases and the future. Then, could you buy insulin sold and manufactured by the state in the near future. And a covid projection from IHME that could see a surge in cases in the winter.

On Monday, students in grades K-5 returned to schools throughout the state under a new hybrid model that combines several hours of in-person instruction for at least two days a week with remote learning.

We learn about the challenges of trying to get your home off its dependence on fossil fuels for heat or power.

(Correction 04/06/21: A Washington state bill, HB 1084, mentioned in this episode that would phase out the use of natural gas in all new buildings has not made it out of the House Committee on Appropriations for further legislative consideration.)

We hear why rising COVID-19 cases threaten to undo the progress Seattle and the county have made in trying to curb the pandemic and a new audit reveals troubling problems at the county's jails.

On Monday, K-5 public school students returned to the classroom for the first time since the start of the pandemic under a hybrid model that combines in-person instruction with remote learning. Also, we hear from King County Executive Dow Constantine on a possible fourth wave of coronavirus infections. Plus, why it’s so tough to stop depending on fossil fuels to heat and power your home.

Bill Radke spoke to three people that have been creating space for communities of color in an increasingly gentrified Seattle.

Forty-one years ago Mount St Helens erupted. That blast wiped out so much life on the mountain that it created a rare opportunity for scientists to study how life returns, and how ecosystems form and work. A proposed forest service access road could hurt that research.

We've been talking about imposter phenomenon, better known as imposter syndrome, since the 1970s. Seattle authors Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey say it's time to let it go.