Monday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
L.A. shelter pets arrive in Seattle, WA lawmakers talk rent stabilization, and the Community Police Commission seeks to regroup from internal turmoil. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.
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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. |
| 0:32.8 | Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. |
| 0:35.9 | This is Seattle now. |
| 0:37.1 | I'm Patricia Murphy. Coming up, Seattle's |
| 0:39.4 | Community Police Commission is seeking to regroup in 2025 after years of internal turmoil. That's in a few |
| 0:46.8 | minutes. But first, here's a roundup of today's top stories. It's Monday, January 13th. The Washington legislative session is underway, and things got off to a quick start this afternoon. |
| 0:59.5 | A House committee heard a controversial rent stabilization bill shortly after opening ceremonies. |
| 1:05.0 | The proposal would limit how much a landlord can raise tenants' rent each year. |
| 1:10.2 | A similar measure failed last year. The session is |
| 1:12.9 | scheduled to last through late April. Governor-elect Bob Ferguson will officially be sworn in on Wednesday. |
| 1:19.6 | Nearly 60 pets have arrived in Seattle from Los Angeles to help animal shelters there during the fires. |
| 1:26.6 | Casey Martin reports. |
| 1:28.7 | The small plane carrying almost 40 dogs and about 20 cats |
| 1:32.4 | touchdown at Boeing Field on Sunday afternoon. |
| 1:35.5 | Volunteers and staff from Seattle Humane |
| 1:37.3 | quickly made an assembly line, |
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