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Mold in operating rooms and a gun lawsuit this week

caption: Erica Barnett, Melissa Santos, Ross Reynolds and Naomi Ishisaka.
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Erica Barnett, Melissa Santos, Ross Reynolds and Naomi Ishisaka.
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Ross Reynolds reviews the week's news with Melissa Santos, reporter for Crosscut, Erica C. Barnett, writer at The C is For Crank, and Naomi Ishisaka, former editor in chief of ColorsNW Magazine.

The Seattle City Council voted unanimously this week to allow backyard cottages across Seattle and limit the size of larger homes, depending on the lot size. We look at how it might change Seattle's density.

And Seattle Children's Hospital has reopened 14 operating rooms, after having to close them due to mold, which infected six patients, and killed one.

Plus: Washington state is getting same-day voter registration, but King County's election official is raising concerns about the system.

A Seattle couple has filed a lawsuit against a gun manufacturing company, after their daughter was shot and killed in Las Vegas in 2017, in the shooting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

Also: A Seattle federal judge ruled this week that asylum-seekers who are detained after entering the country illegally are entitled to bond hearings, Boeing is offering $100 million for families and communities affected by their 737 MAX crashes, and U.S. Women's Soccer and Reign FC star Megan Rapinoe says she won't go to the White House.

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