Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Costco shareholders vote to keep DEI practices, environmental crimes would be felonies under proposed bill, and Boeing lost nearly $4 billion last quarter. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Tonvin, host of Seattle Eats, a food podcast from the Seattle Times in K-O-W. |
| 0:07.8 | Did you know Washington State grows 98% of the frozen raspberries, so to United States? |
| 0:15.3 | On the latest episode of Seattle Eats, we sample food made with these raspberries and learn how it all happens. |
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| 0:33.1 | TGIF from the KUOW Newsroom. |
| 0:36.3 | This is Seattle now. |
| 0:37.5 | I'm Paige Browning. |
| 0:38.9 | It was a busy weekend news in President Trump's first week in office, and we're staying on the pulse of it. |
| 0:44.7 | Here's the roundup of today's top stories from our newsroom. |
| 0:48.0 | It's Friday, January 24th. |
| 0:52.1 | DEI programs are under fire by the new White House and by some of corporate America. |
| 0:57.3 | But Costco shareholders have rejected a proposal that questioned the company's diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. |
| 1:04.6 | Noel Gaska has more on those vote results. |
| 1:07.8 | The proposal called on Costco's board to conduct an evaluation of the company's current |
| 1:11.9 | DEI roles, policies, and goals. If passed, the board would have been required to publish a report |
| 1:17.8 | on the risks of maintaining Costco's DEI program. Preliminary polling indicated 98% of shareholders |
| 1:24.2 | were against the proposition. Tony James, the chairman of Costco's |
| 1:28.6 | board of directors, urged shareholders to vote against the proposal, emphasizing the company's |
| 1:33.8 | commitment to inclusion. We owe our success to the more than 300,000 employees who serve our |
| 1:39.8 | members every day. It is important that they all feel included and appreciated and that they transmit these |
| 1:45.6 | values to our customers. The shareholder who proposed the resolution called DEI, quote, |
| 1:51.7 | illegal, immoral, and detrimental to shareholder value. Noelle Gaska, KUOW News. |
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