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Take a stroll around your neighborhood and you might come across a refrigerator on the street. It's not waiting to be recycled, it's part of the mutual aid group Seattle Community Fridge.

Take a stroll around your neighborhood and you might come across a refrigerator on the street. It's not waiting to be recycled, it's part of the mutual aid group Seattle Community Fridge. Ross Reynolds spoke to one of the group's volunteers. Plus, last Monday Governor Inslee signed a sweeping set of environmental bills into law. But one provision he didn't pass was requiring consent from local tribes, and tribal leaders aren't happy. And Ross Reynolds speaks to Heart band member Nancy Wilson.

Last summer, there was something missing from Seattle. Not just big festivals, and tourist crowds, on Elliott Bay, the giant cruise ships were gone. This summer, however, they'll return. Bill Radke spoke with Seattle attorney and maritime law expert. Charles Moure, about how cruises work in a pandemic and how the industry plans to return.

We're looking forward to the pandemic being behind us. But, are you ready for what life will be like when that happens? Bill Radke spoke with writer Anne Helen Petersen about her essay, "No I'm Not Ready" and we hear from listeners about how they're feeling and what they want their new normal to be.

WA state resident Rick Desautel of the Colville Confederated Tribes drove north across the Canadian border to go hunting on traditional tribal land. He killed an elk without a hunting license and turned himself. Bill Radke spoke with Rodney Cawston, Chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and the Sinixt Confederacy about how this led to a decade of legal battles over the right of aboriginal people in the US to hunt in their ancestral homelands in Canada.

Someday, we are going to be able to put the pandemic behind us. And yet, this time has highlighted what we care about most. What will we bring forward? Writer Anne Helen Peterson walks us through her own pandemic introspection and we hear from you. Then, after a decade of challenging the legal system, the the Sinixt tribe won recognition and the right to hunt in their traditional homelands across the Canadian border. Also, would you get on a cruise this summer? We hear how the industry can return after pandemic loss.

“Cottagecore" is the trend of getting back to your roots, whether that be baking sourdough bread or planting a garden. Or maybe even raising a few chickens.

We continue our weekly conversations with Seattle mayoral candidates, asking them the same set of questions.

We continue our weekly conversations with Seattle mayoral candidates, asking them the same set of questions.

In the most stringent of quarantine restrictions, restaurants, libraries, and other buildings were closed off to the public.