SPR News Today: Tacoma artists create 1,000 glass medallions for a World Cup scavenger hunt

Today’s headlines:

  • Washington state exchange healthcare premiums could increase by more than 20%… again.
  • Outgoing Kootenai County GOP officials look to undercut the incoming moderate leaders.
  • Death toll rises to two and the remains of nine are still unrecovered after Longview chemical rupture.
  • Beavers could pose a bigger threat than mountain lions to most north Idahoans—financially, at least.
  • Maybe the wine industry isn’t dying because millennials and Gen Z don’t want to drink wine. Maybe it’s because they can’t afford it.

Plus, when six World Cup games come to Seattle this summer, there’s another game fans can join in on: A thousand glass medallions are being hidden around Pierce County in a scavenger hunt meant to celebrate the World Cup.

Northwest Public Broadcasting’s Lauren Gallup visits the glass artists who were commissioned to create the pieces.

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