Friday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Downtown Seattle's new waterfront walkway opens, Boeing and striking machinists to restart talks on Monday, and housing for LGBTQ+ veterans opens in Seattle. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:00.0 | Support comes from Washington's National Park Fund, the official philanthropic partner of Mount Rainier, |
| 0:06.3 | North Cascades, and Olympic National Parks. Proceeds from Washington National Park license plates |
| 0:11.9 | help fund important projects in these parks that might not otherwise receive support. More at WNPF.org. |
| 0:26.9 | These days, there's so much news. It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:37.9 | The Consider This podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. Six days a week, we bring you a deep dive on a news story and provide the context and analysis that helps you make sense of the news. |
| 0:44.9 | We get behind the headlines. We get to the truth. Listen to the Consider this podcast from NPR. |
| 0:58.1 | TGIF. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Big weekend of events between Seattle Rain, Seattle Seahawks, and U-dub football games, plus a smattering of Octoberfest events |
| 1:04.7 | and fall colors starting to pop in the mountains. Here are today's top stories from our region. It's |
| 1:10.8 | Friday, October 4th. |
| 1:13.9 | A thank you note to start the show. Thank you for listening to Seattle Now. And if you recently |
| 1:19.5 | donated extra special thank you to you, support from listeners at any amount makes this show |
| 1:26.6 | possible. Thanks for being part of our Seattle Now community. |
| 1:32.9 | Officials at the Lummi Nation say this week's arrests in a drug ring linked to recent overdose deaths could offer a measure of justice. |
| 1:41.1 | Amy Radle has more. The Lummi Nation near Bellingham put a national spotlight on the |
| 1:46.3 | fentanyl epidemic last September when four members died of drug overdoses in a matter of days. |
| 1:52.5 | Tony Hollare is the chairman of the Lummi Indian Business Council. He says this criminal case |
| 1:57.6 | has brought up a range of feelings, but he's grateful for the collaboration with |
| 2:01.8 | federal investigators. And so it was just a lot of sorrow, a lot of grief, a lot of confusion, |
| 2:09.0 | and a lot of questions that our people wanted answers to. And I think we're getting closer. |
| 2:16.1 | The U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI, and the DEA have |
| 2:19.7 | charged 17 people with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and launder money. Officials say the drug |
| 2:25.9 | ring based in Renton extended to multiple states and targeted tribal communities. |
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