Week in Review: light rail stabbing, Seattle Public Schools, and Denny Blaine Park

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Too Beautiful to Live’s Andrew Walsh, political analyst and contributing columnist Joni Balter, and KUOW’s Dyer Oxley.

This week, a Seattle man, Corey Bellett, a chef at Harry's on Capitol Hill, was stabbed to death at a light rail station. This was the third homicide in Sound Transit's 15-year history. A murder on public transit raises questions of security: Does this make you feel less safe at a light rail station?

Some Seattle parents are upset. They want to know whether their kid's elementary school is going to close and why. The district has proposed closing 20 elementary schools. That's more than a quarter of its elementary schools. One reason is declining enrollment. The district gets state money per kid.

Denny Blaine, a beach on the shores of Lake Washington, has attracted nude frolickers for decades and is considered a queer haven. Some neighbors claim the behavior there is sometimes lewd.

A few months ago, the city said we'd like to put in a children's play structure at Denny Blaine, which would be paid for by an anonymous donor. The anonymous donor of the play structure is anonymous no more. KUOW's Ashley Hiruko found out he is Stuart Sloan, who owns University Village and lives next door to Denny Blaine Park. What happens next?