Good evening from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning. Thanks to Trish Murphy for holding things down for a few days. Here are today's top stories. It's Thursday, May 23rd.

You may have heard the Justice Department wants to break up Ticketmaster and the company's owner Live Nation.

Today, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said he is one of the 30 AGs who are joining the antitrust lawsuit.

It's a familiar story for one local band, Pearl Jam.

The group lodged an antitrust complaint against Ticketmaster a whopping 30 years ago.

They claimed the company's exclusive deals with major venues, fleeced fans, and left bands with no other options.

Today, about 70% of tickets to major concert venues are sold through Ticketmaster. To local politics now, legal advocacy groups are suing the state of Washington to try to prevent

a voter initiative about youth from becoming law next month.

Jeannie Lindsay explains.

The so-called Parents Bill of Rights outlines more than a dozen rights for parents to oversee their child's education and school medical records.

But Adrian Levitt, staff attorney with the ACLU of Washington, says the initiative, I-281,

undermines existing privacy laws for young people.

Our state constitution requires that new laws properly identify how they impact existing laws, and 2081 fails to do that.

Democrats who control the legislature worried about the measure when they approved it.

Legislative leaders promised to make changes if it caused harm or confusion in schools.

The new lawsuit is seeking a court order to stop the initiative from becoming law, June 6th.

I'm Jeannie Lindsay in Olympia.

There is uncertainty ahead for the King County Regional Homeless Authority, the region's

leader in handling the crisis, because today there are calls for the authority to stop searching

for a new CEO.

Seattle City Council member Kathy Moore says the focus should be getting the house in order

before moving forward with the

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