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Seattle Now

Tuesday Evening Headlines

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

News, Daily News

4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Sound Transit picks Dow Constantine to be CEO, Carnegie Medal for Heroism awarded to Gig Harbor man, and WA schools lose federal funding to buy fruits and veggies. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Dyer Oxley, and on the latest episode of Meet Me Here, find out how Dungeons and Dragons

0:05.0

could save the nation. With lies on social media traveling faster than reason, could this nerdy

0:11.2

role-playing game be the answer to combating disinformation? Listen to Meet Me Here on the KUOW app or wherever

0:18.4

you get your podcast.

0:23.1

Hey there from the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcast. Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom.

0:25.9

This is Seattle now.

0:27.3

I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's top news.

0:30.5

It's Tuesday, March 25th.

0:33.4

Sound Transit's board of directors has announced that King County Executive Dow Constantine is the preferred candidate to become their next CEO.

0:41.5

A board statement expressed confidence that Constantine has the knowledge, experience, and commitment to achieve the agency's goals.

0:49.4

His salary will reportedly be in the $650,000 range, more than double his current pay.

0:55.5

The board is scheduled to vote on the appointment Thursday.

0:58.3

A supermajority is required to finalize the hire.

1:02.2

Over the past few weeks, immigrants have been deported to places like El Salvador in Guantanamo Bay

1:07.0

instead of their home countries.

1:09.0

Lawyers in Seattle have joined in a class action lawsuit

1:12.1

challenging these deportations to so-called third countries. Gustavo Segreiro reports.

1:18.7

These are cases where an immigrant's home country refuses to receive deportation flights from

1:22.9

the U.S. The lawsuit says deportees need a chance to weigh in on where else they could be sent.

1:28.2

Until this weekend, Venezuela was not taking deportations.

1:31.7

Bryant Rivero Ramirez is from Venezuela and was recently held at the Tacoma Ice Detention Center.

1:37.4

He says he was told he'd be deported to either Mexico, Guantanamo Bay, or El Salvador.

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