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Seattle Now

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🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Mayor Wilson's homelessness proposals move forward, student uses 'AI attorneys' to sue UW over alleged racial discrimination, and WA prevails in lawsuit against Live Nation.

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0:00.0	You know, every day on Up First, NPR's Golden Globe nominated morning news podcast, we bring you three essential stories.
0:06.8	At the heart of each story are questions.
0:10.1	What really happened?
0:11.3	What really mattered?
0:12.5	What happens next?
0:13.8	At NPR, we stand for your right to be curious and to follow the facts.
0:18.5	Follow up first wherever you get your podcasts and start your day knowing what matters and why.
0:27.1	Good afternoon.
0:28.5	From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now.
0:32.2	I'm Paige Browning with a roundup of today's top stories.
0:35.6	It's Wednesday, April 15th. Starting with a win this week for
0:41.2	Seattle's mayor, the city council is moving forward with Mayor Katie Wilson's proposals on homelessness,
0:47.5	her first big priorities. Scott Greenstone's following for us. Wilson wants to open larger tiny house villages and fast. She promised
0:56.8	500 shelter beds before the World Cup in two months. On Tuesday, the city council approved legislation
1:03.9	to use almost $5 million that the mayor found in unspent corners of the budget for shelter,
1:10.6	as well as let the city move faster
1:12.3	to sign leases for larger plots of land for tiny house villages. On Wednesday, the land use
1:18.4	committee will take up a proposal from Wilson to raise the max capacity for tiny house villages
1:24.4	from 100 to 150 or even 250 people in some cases.
1:31.5	Scott Greenstone, KOWW News.
1:33.9	The other big city story this week is the library.
1:37.4	We had a small note yesterday, but we got more details today.
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