Wednesday Evening Headlines
Seattle Now
KUOW News and Information
4.7 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Seattle minted 3,700 new millionaires last year, restrictions lift on police pursuits, and Boeing's Starliner blasts off to the International Space Station. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Patricia Murphy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joshua McNichols. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Monica Nicholsberg. |
| 0:03.0 | We host KUOW's Economy Podcast, booming. |
| 0:06.0 | ChatGPT may feel like magic, but every time you ask AI a question, it goes to a real place. |
| 0:12.0 | AI has a back end, and it looks like massive data centers sprawling across farmland in central Washington. |
| 0:20.0 | On our latest episode, is our AI obsession good for small town America? |
| 0:24.7 | Listen to booming on the KUOW app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.8 | Good evening from the KUOW Newsroom. |
| 0:36.7 | This is Seattle Now. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Patricia Murphy. |
| 0:39.4 | Coming up, a trip to the Washington Congressional District |
| 0:42.0 | that's elected white male Democrats |
| 0:44.0 | for the last 60 years. |
| 0:46.3 | Times are changing. |
| 0:47.7 | This time, Democratic primary voters |
| 0:49.7 | are choosing between two women. |
| 0:52.0 | That's in a few minutes. |
| 0:53.1 | But first, here are today's top stories. |
| 0:55.3 | It's Wednesday, June 5th. A new study reveals Seattle minted 3,700 new millionaires in the past |
| 1:03.0 | year. The wealth advisory firm Henley and Partners did the digging. Monica Nicholsberg has more. |
| 1:08.3 | When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos moved out of Washington last year, some feared the state's |
| 1:13.2 | new capital gains tax was driving out its richest taxpayers. |
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