Blue City Blues
The Blue City Blues podcast aims to pick up where Dan Savage’s Urban Archipelago idea left off, with a national perspective on the present and the future of urban America.
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Nancy Rommelmann on How Portland Traumatized Itself
In recent decades, no major American city can match the sharp ups and downs of P...
The Death of the Gatekeeper: Adam Penenberg on Traditional Journalism's Identity Crisis
For decades, a handful of legacy media outlets decided what counted as news, how...
John Roderick on the Decline – and Comeback? – of Urban Cool
What's the fundamental difference between an authentically cool city and a contr...
Meet the Hosts
Sandeep Kaushik
Sandeep Kaushik is an experienced political and public affairs consultant based in Seattle, with expertise in public relations, political communications, and strategic advisory work for elected officials, civic leaders, governments, and non-profits. His current practice focuses on high-profile policy issues such as affordable housing, ridesharing, short-term rental regulation, transit funding, and universal pre-K.
David Hyde
For nearly 2 decades, David Hyde worked for NPR-affiliate KUOW in Seattle, most recently as a Murrow-award winning politics reporter. He departed in 2024 to dedicate himself full time to podcasting and other journalism and writing projects. Blue City Blues builds on the success David had creating Seattle Nice. Each week Blue City Blues takes a deep dive look at the many shared issues facing blue cities.
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