Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Orca mom still carrying her dead calf around Puget Sound, 2024 broke records for evictions in WA, and Whitman College grapples with the legacy of its namesake. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joshua McNichols. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Monica Nicholsberg. |
| 0:03.0 | We host KUOW's Economy Podcast, booming. |
| 0:06.0 | ChatGPT may feel like magic, but every time you ask AI a question, it goes to a real place. |
| 0:12.0 | AI has a back end, and it looks like massive data centers sprawling across farmland in central Washington. |
| 0:20.0 | On our latest episode, is our AI obsession good for small town America? |
| 0:24.7 | Listen to booming on the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.3 | TGIF from the KUOW Newsroom. |
| 0:37.3 | This is Seattle now. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Paige Browning. |
| 0:39.8 | Happy first weekend of the year. |
| 0:42.0 | It's going to be a wet one. |
| 0:44.0 | Coming up, Whitman College is grappling with the complex legacy of its namesake. |
| 0:48.9 | We'll hear from students trying to make a change. |
| 0:51.5 | But first, here's a roundup of today's top stories. |
| 0:54.0 | It's Friday, |
| 0:55.1 | January 3rd. Amazon's 65,000 local office workers are now expected in-person five days a week. |
| 1:04.9 | That new policy began Thursday. Experts say that will make for longer commutes. So how to go this morning? |
| 1:12.3 | Joshua McNichols has more. |
| 1:14.7 | Nels Weber commutes by light rail to the Pike Place market, |
| 1:18.1 | where he opens a produce stand around 9 a.m. |
| 1:21.3 | He says mostly his commute is still easy, |
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