Sound Stories. Sound Voices.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
You are on the KUOW archive site. Click here to go to our current site.

Police Reform, 'McJobs' Protests, And Pot Regulation Changes

KUOW Photo/Joshua McNichols
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant talks with a fan outside McDonald's restaurant in downtown Seattle at the McPoverty protest on Thursday, February 20.

Workers protest outside Seattle's fast-food restaurants to draw attention to income inequality, and the Seattle's interim police chief's recentdisciplinary decision raises questions about which direction police reform is headed.

Also Washington cuts the size of legal marijuana grows after receiving nearly 3,000 applications for a state license.

Steve Scher reviews these stories and more with Crosscut’s Knute Berger, Eli Sanders of The Stranger, news analyst Joni Balter and Livewire's Luke Burbank.

Year started with KUOW: 2012