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SPU Shooting, Minimum Wage Passes, And Amazon Controversy Grows

caption: Otto Miller Hall on the Seattle Pacific University Seattle campus, where a shooting took place Thursday afternoon.
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Otto Miller Hall on the Seattle Pacific University Seattle campus, where a shooting took place Thursday afternoon.
Courtesy Jillian Smith

A shooting on the campus of Seattle Pacific University on Thursday left one person dead and two others seriously injured. Seattle made history this week as the first city in the country to establish a $15 minimum wage for all workers. And the controversy surrounding Amazon's business practices continued to attract national media attention.

Steve Scher recaps those stories and more news of the week with Crosscut's Knute Berger, The Stranger's Eli Sanders, news analyst Joni Balter and Live Wire's Luke Burbank.

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