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This week the city taxeth and the city taketh away

Mike McGinn, Bill Radke, Joni Balter, and Rob McKenna at KUOW
KUOW Photo/Kara McDermott
Mike McGinn, Bill Radke, Joni Balter, and Rob McKenna at KUOW

This week, it was off with the head tax. The Seattle City Council voted to repeal the employee tax just weeks after unanimously voting to instate it. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Washington state tribes, forcing the state government to replace hundreds more culverts to save the salmon. And we found out this week the federal prison at SeaTac Airport is currently holding more than 170 women seeking asylum.

Bill Radke makes sense of those stories and more of the week's news with Joni Balter, host of Civic Cocktail on the Seattle Channel, Mike McGinn, former mayor of Seattle, and Rob McKenna, former Washington state attorney general.

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