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Good. to NPR's TED Radio Hour wherever you get your podcasts. Good afternoon. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. And happy full moon.

This one's called the cold supermoon because it comes in a frigid month and is a super moon, meaning it's near its closest

point to Earth. I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Thursday,

December 4th. No new taxes. That's the plan from Governor Bob Ferguson. Today he laid out a preview

of his budget plans for 2026, in which the state's already facing a budget shortage. Ferguson says he wants to make cuts, not add new taxes to address the red in the budget, according to the Seattle Times. Democratic lawmakers have already started proposing tax plans such as a payroll tax on corporations.

Ferguson says any new revenue outside of sales tax and property tax increases will not bring in

money fast enough to solve the state's current budget problems. The gears are turning in a whole

different way on the light rail tracks.

Service to Federal Way opens this Saturday, and already commuters are thinking about how it will affect their lives.

Joshua McNichols has more.

Just below the new station platform are bus stops.

That's where I found Jacqueline Dominguez.

She's commuting to El Centro de La Rosa on Beacon Hill.

And I'm so happy too. I'm excited.

She's excited because it'll cut her three-bus commute down to a single train ride.

And then there's Kaiz Habibi.

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