Tuesday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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SPD's former chief Adrian Diaz is fired, lawmakers want to ban flavored vape and tobacco products, and bus stops close in Seattle's CID due to safety concerns. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.
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| 0:56.5 | Good afternoon from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle now. I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories. It's Tuesday, December 17th. The big story today, Diaz is out. Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell has |
| 1:04.4 | officially fired former Seattle police chief Adrian Diaz. Diaz had been chief until May when he was demoted. In a letter to the |
| 1:13.9 | Seattle City Council today, Harold says an investigation found Diaz had a romantic relationship with a |
| 1:20.4 | former employee whom he directly supervised. The mayor says that broke department policies. For his part, Diaz has denied the relationship. |
| 1:30.4 | He and the former employee were put on paid leave in October. Diaz's attorney did not immediately |
| 1:36.7 | respond to a request for comment. The former chief has also filed a tort claim against the mayor, |
| 1:42.5 | alleging that he's being discriminated against for being |
| 1:45.7 | gay. In politics, Washington Governor Jay Inslee is on his way out, but today proposed a wealth |
| 1:52.8 | tax to preserve critical services as a huge budget gap looms. Jeannie Lindsay explains, |
| 1:59.6 | Washington is spending faster than it's bringing in money. |
| 2:03.0 | Officials expect a more than $10 billion gap in the state's next budget cycle, and to close it, |
| 2:08.8 | outgoing Governor Jay Inslee says he wants to see a 1% wealth tax on the state's richest residents. |
| 2:16.3 | So this tax would only be on the excess over $100 million. |
| 2:21.5 | Inslee is also proposing about $2 billion in cuts, in part by delaying child care expansion, |
| 2:28.6 | closing a state prison, and pausing some pay bonuses for teachers. |
| 2:33.1 | Democrats in the legislature call Inslee's proposal a, quote, strong starting point, |
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