This week there is a green new presidential candidate

Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with the C is for Crank writer Erica Barnett, Seattle Channel’s Civic Cocktail host Joni Balter and columnist for Crosscut Knute Berger.

It is official: Washington state’s Governor Jay Inslee is running for President. He spoke this morning at A&R Solar, a solar installation company in Seattle, appropriate for his campaign message of making climate change the nation’s top priority. Why does it matter that he is running for President?

President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified in front of Congress this week. He called the President racist, unkind, ungenerous and fundamentally disloyal. But where does this testimony really leave us?

Seattle is spending a lot of time and money on homelessness, but is it helping? Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Durkan celebrated the city’s achievements in her state of the city speech last week, but what do the numbers really tell us?

Plus, the end of the Seattle Weekly’s print publication, the possible fall of Fremont’s Lenin statue and what happens when you spend 36 hours stuck on a train.