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The Morning Update Show — 6/10/21

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The Morning Update Show — hosted by Trae Holiday and The Big O (Omari Salisbury) — is the only weekday news and information livestream that delivers culturally relevant content to the Pacific Northwest’s urban audience. Omari and Trae analyze the day’s local and national headlines as well as melanin magic in our community. Watch live every weekday at 11 a.m. on any of the following channels, hosted by Converge Media: YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Periscope, and whereweconverge.com.

We also post the Morning Update Show here on the Emerald each day after it airs, so you can catch up any time of day while you peruse our latest posts.

Morning Update Show — Thursday, June 9

Bruce Harrell — LIVE | Nakeya Isabell —LIVE | #FollowTheMoney — $100M Pledge | 70% of Seattleites Vaccinated | PCC Delays Opening Downtown | STG Presents ELEVATE

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PCC Market Union Pickets Co-op’s Proposals Amid Board Election Fiasco

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by Luke Schaefer

United Food and Commercial Workers 21, the grocery workers’ union, held informational pickets outside four PCC Community Markets in Seattle, Edmonds and Bellevue on Wednesday. In addition to demands for a union contract that includes higher wages and secure retirement, workers are calling for representation on PCC’s board of trustees after several controversial decisions have put the co-op’s community focus into question.

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The Morning Update Show — 2/4/21

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The Morning Update Show — hosted by Trae Holiday and The Big O (Omari Salisbury) — is the only weekday news and information livestream that delivers culturally relevant content to the Pacific Northwest’s urban audience. Omari and Trae analyze the day’s local and national headlines as well as melanin magic in our community. Watch live every weekday at 11 a.m. on any of the following channels, hosted by Converge Media: YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, and whereweconverge.com.

We’ll also post the Morning Update Show here on the Emerald each day after it airs, so you can catch up any time of day while you peruse our latest posts.

Morning Update Show — Thursday, Feb. 4

LIVE — Justin Carder, Cap Hill Blog | LIVE — L. Patrice Bell, NAAM | New Bill in Olympia to Support Foster Children | PCC and the Community | New Development Underway in the CD | Healing Our Collective Trauma

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Farmers Market Program Funnels Fresh Produce to Local Food Banks

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by Ben Adlin

With the city’s farmers markets having been shuttered for weeks and only recently beginning to reopen, some regional farmers have been stuck with produce they can’t sell. Now a collaboration between local businesses, farmers markets and food banks is working to redirect those fruits and vegetables to hungry communities across the Seattle area.

It’s an effort to respond on the fly to uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic and ensure food banks have what they need during the coming months. It also keeps much-needed income flowing to the Northwest’s small farms.

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PCC Sells Seward Park Property to Ron Sher of Third Place Books

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(Seattle, Wash) – PCC Natural Markets (PCC), the nation’s largest natural foods retail cooperative, has announced the sale of the building and property currently occupied by its Seward Park store to Ron Sher of Third Place Books. The sale precedes PCC’s move from the property to a larger site in the nearby Columbia City neighborhood in summer 2015. Continue reading PCC Sells Seward Park Property to Ron Sher of Third Place Books →