Saturday Special: Seattle City Council candidates Sara Nelson and Dionne Foster disagree about tackling drug addiction, border town Blaine, Washington is feeling current tensions with Canada, and data centers draw praise and criticism in Central Washington towns like Quincy

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today, we’re bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom... The August primary election has been certified, meaning Sara Nelson and Dionne Foster are the two official candidates for Seattle’s 9th city council seats. Their strategies to address drug addiction are quite different. Canadians are continuing to feel upset with America’s most recent political actions. Being right on the Canadian border, businesses in Blaine Washington are really feeling the pain. And data centers are coming to Central Washington towns. With them comes an economic boost, but also skepticism about what the centers can actually deliver for residents and how much harm they are causing the environment.

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0:00.0	These days, there's so much news.
0:01.8	It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community.
0:06.4	The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism.
0:10.7	Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news.
0:17.5	We get behind the headlines.
0:19.4	We get to the truth.
0:22.8	Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today,
0:32.2	we're bringing you the best from the KUOW Newsroom. First up, the results of Washington's August 5th primary are now official.
0:40.5	In Seattle, Council President Sarah Nelson is fighting for her at-large seat against challenger
0:45.6	Dion Foster. One of the city's most vexing issues is what to do about addiction. Sarah Nelson's
0:52.7	personal experience with alcohol abuse and Foster's
0:56.3	nonprofit background put their solutions at odds. Amy Radle reports. When it comes to Seattle's
1:05.2	strategy for people struggling with addiction, City Council member Sarah Nelson refers to her own
1:10.7	recovery from alcoholism as a
1:12.6	touchstone. She says it's a journey that began abruptly during the depths of the pandemic.
1:17.8	I decided to check myself into treatment one day. It was actually September 24th, 2020,
1:23.6	when I saw my son doing video on his cell phone and he should have been in class on Zoom.
1:29.8	And so I smashed his phone with a hammer.
1:32.7	And I realized that that was an overreaction.
1:35.2	And I had been drinking and I decided that it was time to make a change.
1:39.1	Nelson went to a residential treatment facility in Kirkland.
1:42.5	She found it so effective that she obtained $300,000
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