FareStart has been offering restaurant training to homeless and unemployed folks for nearly 30 years. How are they handling their mission during a pandemic that has seen massive hospitality closures?

This is Mayor Durkan’s last chat with us of 2020.

Governor Inslee has announced a plan to reopen schools, and not everyone’s thrilled about it. It sets up another clash between the teacher’s union and the district.

After months of not being able to do the simplest things, like drink water at work, healthcare workers see the end in sight. A chat with the virology rockstar who led the nation’s clinical trial response. The view from the sweep that wasn’t at Cal Anderson Park, and a look inside religious festivals of light.

Frontline health worker Dr. Sachita Shah has an appointment to get the coronavirus vaccine next Tuesday the 22nd.

December brings festivals of lights in many religions. How does that look this year, at a time when the connection we long for isn’t available?

For Chef Kristi Brown from That Brown Girl Cooks! postponing was not an option. Bill Radke spoke with Chef Kristi Brown about opening her new restaurant in the Central District, Communion, during a pandemic.

Oregon has decriminalized the possession of small amounts of any drug, and there’s a push in Washington to do the same. But what effect will that really have on arrests, prosecution, and the fight against the War on Drugs?

Our need for restaurants hasn’t lessened during the pandemic: quite the reverse. This week’s chat with King County Executive Dow Constantine, joined by County Director of Public Health Patty Hayes. Does drug decriminalization have the effect on incarceration that you think it does? And the residual trauma we’ll pay for later.

Against a backdrop of surging cases and limited supply, how quickly will inoculations start to provide relief? A look at how Canada has done with this pandemic (like most other countries, the answer is “better than us”). Looking back at protests for civil rights in the ‘60s, and challenging our narratives about political violence today.