Thursday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know, every day on Up First, NPR's Golden Globe nominated morning news podcast, we bring you three essential stories. |
| 0:06.8 | At the heart of each story are questions. |
| 0:10.1 | What really happened? |
| 0:11.3 | What really mattered? |
| 0:12.5 | What happens next? |
| 0:13.8 | At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious and to follow the facts. |
| 0:18.5 | Follow up first wherever you get your podcasts and start your day knowing what matters and why. |
| 0:26.6 | Hey there, good afternoon. |
| 0:28.5 | From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle Now. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Paige Browning with today's top stories. |
| 0:34.8 | It's Thursday, April 23rd. |
| 0:41.0 | Our entire region in King County has one consolidated approach to tackling homelessness. That is now in question. A new audit highlights |
| 0:47.2 | money management issues at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. Board members, including |
| 0:52.2 | County Executive Girmize Ahalaj, and Seattle Mayor |
| 0:55.6 | Katie Wilson, agree the audit results are unacceptable. Amy Radle's been covering this. |
| 1:02.1 | Wilson, for her part, says all options are on the table. The others say reform is needed, but |
| 1:07.6 | regional coordination is still essential. But now two elected officials who |
| 1:13.1 | aren't on the board say it's time to try something completely different. Today, Seattle City |
| 1:17.7 | Councilmember Maritzer Rivera and King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski said they are going |
| 1:22.8 | to introduce motions to dissolve the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. Here's Dimbowski. |
| 1:29.2 | It's time to head in a new direction and to acknowledge that this process has not worked. |
| 1:35.7 | It is added an unnecessary, ineffective layer of government that has not been accountable |
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