Monday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Burien voters to decide on raising minimum wage, grocer C&S Wholesale could soon have hundreds of stores in WA, and we remember music journalist Charles R. Cross. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna.
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| 0:00.0 | These days, there's so much news. |
| 0:01.8 | It can be hard to keep up with what it all means for you, your family, and your community. |
| 0:06.4 | The Consider This Podcast from NPR features our award-winning journalism. |
| 0:10.7 | 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. |
| 0:17.5 | We get behind the headlines. |
| 0:19.4 | We get to the truth. |
| 0:22.3 | Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. |
| 0:27.8 | Hey there, from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Ruby Deluna. Here are today's |
| 0:34.9 | top stories. It's Monday, August 12th. |
| 0:39.7 | A pro-Palestinian Democrat appears to be headed to the general election ballot for Congress |
| 0:45.5 | to challenge a longtime incumbent Democrat. |
| 0:49.0 | Politics reporter Scott Greenstone has more. |
| 0:52.3 | Melissa Chowdrey is a young Muslim candidate running for Congress in Washington's |
| 0:56.2 | 9th District, which stretches from Bellevue and South Seattle down to federal way. |
| 1:00.5 | We can free Palestine through political action if we work together. Together, we are unstoppable. |
| 1:07.5 | As of Monday, she had about 20% of the primary vote, enough to pull ahead of two |
| 1:11.5 | Republicans, but now she faces an uphill battle against Democrat Adam Smith, who's been in that |
| 1:17.1 | seat 27 years and his ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee. He's faced |
| 1:22.5 | challenges from the left before, like in 2018, when Democratic Socialists of America ran a candidate against him. |
| 1:29.4 | He won in a landslide then with more than double the votes his challenger got. |
| 1:34.1 | Scott Greenstone, KUOWW News. |
| 1:36.8 | Washington voters will consider a series of ballot initiatives this fall that targets state climate |
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