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Week in Review: May Day protests, tunnel tolls, North Korean nukes

caption: L-R: Rob McKenna, Bill Radke, Joni Balter, Ron Sims
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L-R: Rob McKenna, Bill Radke, Joni Balter, Ron Sims
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Weed is legal, but we're still figuring out how to talk about it around kids. State lawmakers do know this much: A billboard with a cat saying "IM SO HIGH RIGHT MEOW" goes too far.

Bertha has finally finished boring through the muck underneath downtown Seattle. Now comes the hard part: deciding how much drivers should have to pay to drive through a new tunnel.

Lawyers for Mayor Ed Murray say the attorney representing his accuser is using the legal process to launch personal attacks and should be sanctioned.

And how worried should we be over headlines about how much North Korea would love to nuke Seattle?

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Our panel this week:

Bill Radke @KUOWRadke, host

Joni Balter @jbalter, host of Seattle Channel's Civic Cocktail

Ron Sims @simsron, former King County Executive

Rob McKenna @rmckenna, former Washington state Attorney General

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