These days, there's so much news.

It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community.

The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism.

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.

We get behind the headlines.

We get to the truth.

Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR.

Hey, good morning. It's Patricia Murphy. It's Tuesday. This is Seattle now. Seattle Gay News has played a

vital role in the city's queer community. Now it has a new publisher and editor.

Renee Riketti is no stranger to SGN.

She's here to tell us what the papers meant over the years and what's next.

But first, let's get you caught up.

Police in Washington will have more leeway to chase suspects starting Thursday when there's reasonable suspicion they violated the law.

Initiative 2113 rolls back an earlier law from 2021. Under the legislation, each law enforcement agency will have the authority to set its own policy for officers to follow.

Seattle Police Department and the King County Sheriff's Office are taking a look at their policies in light of the change.

Still, SPD told Axios, the city's policies are and will remain more restrictive than state law.

Seattle Public Schools is hosting another community meeting tonight surrounding potential

elementary school closures.

If you couldn't make the last one, this one is at 6 p.m. on Zoom.

District families have clashed with SPS at recent meetings, including a crowd of nearly 300

people booing officials at Roosevelt High School last week.

We'll have a link in the show notes with all the details.

...