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KUOW is saying goodbye to Twitter indefinitely. You can read more about why here: bit.ly/414VCTO Though we won’t be tweeting, there are many other ways to access our local news! 🧵

Over the weekend, a local Hawaiian hula group and others held a ceremony to welcome a collection of Native Hawaiian remains on their way to being repatriated. They had been taken from Hawaii illegally by colonizers and were on their way home from Europe. bit.ly/3GBgb20

Spoken word poet Troy Osaki writes eloquently and tenderly of Filipino workers on the frontlines to bring visibility to their labor throughout the Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. kuow.org/stories/troy-o…

In August 2021, after the U.S. withdrew and the repressive Taliban regime took over in Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan people became refugees and came to the U.S., including Abdul Nasir, who lives with RadioActive’s Micah Riggio. bit.ly/3KwxJxp

As Melissa Santos from Axios originally reported, out of the 400 permanent art installations included in the City of Seattle’s civic art collection, there’s only one outdoor monument honoring a female historical figure. bit.ly/40YgXhK

The plot of "The Laughter" twists and turns around issues of Islamophobia, sexism, and the changing culture of campus life. Seattle University Prof. Sonora Jha discusses her newest novel and why she chose to make her main character so unlikeable. bit.ly/43mOS53

Does the word “transphobic” adequately convey the way language is weaponized against the trans community? bit.ly/3KLmW3M

The average wait time for a bed in a community-based residential treatment center in King County is 44 days. Ballots are in the mail for a county levy that would fund five behavioral health crisis centers, including one for children. bit.ly/43iZAtx

NPR is not state-affiliated media, and if it is, KUOW's Dyer Oxley is in big trouble. Also, the Port of Seattle got scammed for more than half a million dollars, about the same amount Everett is paying to settle its bikini barista lawsuit. bit.ly/413eym0

Washington is growing. It's estimated that Seattle alone will need more than 100,000 new homes in the next two decades. A bill in the state Legislature aims to use “middle housing” to help address this growth. bit.ly/3mezWWg

Climatologists, who look to snowpack recordings on April 1 as an indicator of possible drought conditions, say snowpack levels in California were dramatic, 237% of average statewide. In Washington state, the snowpack is currently just above normal, 104%. bit.ly/3UwuQRJ

.@KUOWRadke discusses the week’s news with McClatchy’s @Shauna_Sowersby, Seattle Times @elisetakahama, and political analyst @jbalter. Watch it here: youtube.com/live/rAfU4VFDr…

The Kraken clinched a playoff spot with a win over Arizona Thursday night. So, how far could the Kraken go? The Seattle Times’ Kate Shefte explains the team’s dramatic turnaround from their expansion season to year two and what to expect moving forward. bit.ly/3Mryv17

One of the bills advancing in the Washington Legislature involves juvenile sentencing reforms, but lawmakers have to decide whether these changes will be retroactive, or only affect people sentenced in years to come. bit.ly/3KhIwLL

A new state dashboard gives further insight into the number of drug-related deaths and hospitalizations occurring in Washington. The dashboard shows there were 7,598 fatal overdoses from 2017 through 2021, the majority related to opioids. bit.ly/3KJuZhe