Tuesday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Conservative activists want to prevent a natural gas ban, Seattle finalizes its transportation levy, and a PNW bird is declared a threatened species. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there from the KUOW Newsroom. This is Seattle Now. I'm Ruby Deluna. Here are today's top stories. It's Tuesday, July 2nd. |
| 0:17.0 | After months of debate, Seattle City Council is set on a new transportation levy. |
| 0:22.6 | Today, a council committee advanced a plan that will improve some sidewalks, bus lanes, and bridges. |
| 0:28.6 | Councilmember Rob Saka chairs the Transportation Committee. |
| 0:32.6 | Fund maintenance and modernization projects. |
| 0:35.6 | It will invest in our safety, economy, and climate. And it will |
| 0:40.8 | bring more accountability and transparency over levy spending to make sure we're truly achieving |
| 0:46.9 | our intended goals. The last time Seattle passed a transportation levy was in 2015, which |
| 0:53.7 | expires this year. The mayor proposed a plan |
| 0:56.7 | that would have cost median homeowners in Seattle about $39 a month in property taxes. This |
| 1:03.4 | latest plan is closer to $41 per month. The full council is expected to vote on the levy next week. |
| 1:14.0 | Then Seattle voters will have the final say in November. |
| 1:24.0 | A group of home builders and conservative activists in Washington say they've gotten enough support to put another voter initiative on the ballot this fall. |
| 1:29.4 | Olympia correspondent Jeannie Lindsay explains the measure's aim is to prevent the state from banning the use of natural gas. Democrats in Olympia have started laying the groundwork for |
| 1:35.6 | utilities to provide more renewable energy and less natural gas, also known as methane gas. |
| 1:42.8 | The legislature passed a bill earlier this year to help speed that up. |
| 1:47.3 | Supporters called it a planning bill. But home building industry leaders don't want natural gas to go away. |
| 1:54.0 | They want to put a measure on voters' ballots this fall that says utilities or local governments cannot limit or discourage natural gas use. |
| 2:03.9 | And the people behind the natural gas initiatives say they've got enough signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot. |
| 2:10.9 | Now the Secretary of State's office will have to confirm those signatures are legitimate before the measure heads to voters. |
| 2:18.0 | I'm Jeannie Lindsay in Olympia. |
| 2:27.9 | A bird that lives year-round in the protected wilderness of the Washington Cascades has been |
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