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Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. It's Patricia Murphy. It's Thursday. This is Seattle now. After four

terms, King County Executive Dow Constantine is not running for re-election. With a $150 million budget problem, a housing crisis,

and criminal justice reform facing the county, who would want the top spot anyway?

KUOW politics reporter Scott Greenstone interviewed the candidates eyeing the job. He'll break it all down.

But first, let's get you caught up. After this week's cold snap, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting

warmer than normal weather for the remainder of the month.

The agency's newest models show the region is leaning above normal temps.

Rain is expected to be near normal.

Longer term, NOAA is predicting a laninia winter, which means cooler and wetter weather.

Lawmakers are getting a head start on next year's legislative session. Some have already filed bills for

consideration. One bipartisan bill would put Washington on standard time permanently ending the yearly time switch.

Another would require schools to add emergency measures like panic buttons to classrooms.

The session kicks off January 13th.

And Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has made a $14 million stock gift to his own environmental fund.

The Bezos Earth Fund Foundation was formed in 2020 when Bezos pledged to give $10 billion

to fight climate change this decade. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports

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