Thursday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Joshua McNickles, co-host of KUW's Economy Podcast Booming. Seattle and Austin, Texas, have a lot in common. They both grew up on tech. They both throw big festivals. But lately, Austin's been a real outlier when it comes to housing costs. While Seattle saw rent prices go up, Austin's rents actually fell, a lot. On this week's episode, what's Austin doing |
| 0:23.3 | right? And what could Seattle learn from it? Find booming on the KUOW app or wherever you listen. |
| 0:32.8 | Hey, hey, and good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I am Paige Browning |
| 0:39.4 | with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Thursday, January 8th. Two people in Portland were |
| 0:46.9 | shot by federal agents today around 2 p.m. according to Portland Police. The FBI and the Portland |
| 0:53.1 | police say the agent who fired was a U.S. Customs and Border Protection Police. The FBI and the Portland Police say the agent who fired was a U.S. |
| 0:55.5 | customs and border protection agent. The victims have been transferred to a local hospital |
| 1:00.2 | and their conditions have not been released. This is a developing story tonight, so check for the |
| 1:04.7 | latest at KUOW.org. Meanwhile, Seattle protesters are renewing their calls for ICE to be abolished. |
| 1:12.5 | We want justice, we want peace. |
| 1:14.9 | We want justice, we want peace. |
| 1:17.4 | We want ice off our street. |
| 1:19.9 | We want ice off our street. |
| 1:22.5 | That was the sound at a demonstration last night outside the federal building in downtown Seattle. |
| 1:27.1 | They came out to |
| 1:28.1 | protest the shooting death of Minneapolis resident Renee Good, who was killed yesterday by an ICE agent. |
| 1:34.8 | A vigil for Good is set for 630 tonight at Pier 58. Meanwhile in Seattle, masked federal agents took |
| 1:42.2 | three unidentified men into custody at Seattle's |
| 1:45.2 | Evergreen-Wishelli Cemetery yesterday. Seattle Police Chief Saan Barnes says Seattle officers |
| 1:50.7 | responded to a call of a possible armed abduction and confirmed that ICE agents were conducting |
| 1:56.9 | arrests. U.S. Representative Emily Randall says fallout from a child care scandal in Minnesota |
| 2:03.0 | is being felt here. Childcare centers there run by Somali immigrants are accused of defrauding |
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