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Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. It's Jeannie Yandel. It's Wednesday. This is Seattle now. The downtown

Seattle PCC was supposed to be a flagship store for the upscale grocery co-op.

But the pandemic had other plans.

The store's opening was delayed until 2022, and it only survived two years before closing in January.

Now, PCC is coming back to the same space with a new design and an emphasis on grab-and-go lunches.

Puget Sound Business Journal reporter Joey Thompson will talk with Patricia Murphy in a minute, but first, let's get you caught up.

Washington Department of Corrections officials are shutting down the state's last execution chamber

this morning. Over about a century, the state executed 78 inmates

at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. The state's last execution at Walla

Walla took place in 2010. And in 2014, Governor Jay Inslee put a moratorium on the death penalty.

The Washington State Legislature outlawed capital punishment in

23. And today's a big day for local and state political candidates and Washington voters.

Between 11 a.m. and 2.30 p.m., state elections fans can binge three electoral debates on TBW,

candidates for the state superintendent of public instruction,

attorney general, and lands commissioner will all go head to head. Tonight at 6 p.m. on Como 4, you can catch

the second gubernatorial debate between Democrat Bob Ferguson and Republican Dave Reichert.

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