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Mayor Murray: Closing Hookah Lounges Not About Race

KUOW | By David Hyde,
Amina Al-Sadi
Published August 13, 2015 at 2:04 PM AKDT
Operators of some hookah lounges in Seattle say the city's crackdown unfairly targets them. This hookah lounge is on Roosevelt Way Northeast in the University District.
KUOW Photo/Gil Aegerter
Operators of some hookah lounges in Seattle say the city's crackdown unfairly targets them. This hookah lounge is on Roosevelt Way Northeast in the University District.

David Hyde talks to Seattle Mayor Ed Murray about the city's decision to close all of the hookah lounges in Seattle. 
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