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Podcasts

Well-Planned Basement Tapes

Planning is extremely important to the life and health of a place — one of the most consequential things a local government does — the impacts of which usually outlive the people doing the planning by generations.

Mr. Billig Goes to (Olympia) Washington

Starting the year off with a banger: Senate Majority Leader Andy Billig joins us to talk about the legislative year that was, and what to expect from Washington state in 2022 as the legislature tries to pack all its work into a whirlwind 60 day session.

Spokane Regional Health Dysfunction

This week we speak with Inlander reporter Samantha Wohlfeil, who has been filing the best stories anywhere on the continuing — and honestly, worsening — crisis at the Spokane Regional Health District.

The pandemic becomes endemic

On almost exactly the anniversary of our first mental health episode — where we talked about navigating the uncertainty of the holidays during the pandemic

Taking Housing Stock

This week on the pod, Gene Brake, Spokane-based Realtor, civil rights activist, and neighborhood leader joins us to talk about:

Our Climate, Ourselves

This week we discuss the tremendous challenge of climate change and the  impacts of that challenge on mental health — especially the mental health of young people, who will bear a disproportionate trauma and hardship from our collective inaction.

Friends with (Public Health) Benefits

On this week’s episode, we speak with Jeff Ketchel, Executive Director of the Washington State Public Health Association, about the state of public health 18-plus months into a centenary pandemic.

Strangleholds

Many of our local law enforcement officials have expressed concerns about a set of new laws (HB 1310, HB 1054) that, among other things, require stricter standards for probable cause when detaining someone, require de-escalation during encounters, ban chokeholds and significantly restrict the use of

Kids, COVID and "Deep Loneliness"

Psychotherapist Meg Curtin Rey-Bear guest hosts a roundtable with fellow therapists Maggie Rowe, a clinical social worker and certified child life specialist, and Ingrid Price, a licensed mental health counselor and a child mental health specialist.