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Know More: Under-Reported Stories For the Week of 10.24.15

Erin Hennessey
Sound Effect's roundtable, left to right: Emily Parkhurst, Digital Managing Editor at the Puget Sound Business Journal; Eli Sanders, Associate Editor of The Stranger; Gabriel Spitzer, Host of Sound Effect; Bryan Cohen, reporter at CHS blog

Reporters from the Puget Sound region shine a light on stories they think deserved more coverage this week. 

KPLU's Sound Effect hears from Emily Parkhurst, Digital Managing Editor at the Puget Sound Business Journal, Bryan Cohen, a reporter with Capitol Hill Seattle blog, and Eli Sanders, Associate Editor at The Stranger.

This week's choices for under-reported stories include a discussion about just how well restaurants are doing despite earlier warnings that Seattle's minimum wage increases would put restaurants out of business.

The panel considers criminal justice reforms expanding from Seattle's downtown to the Capitol Hill neighborhood, which help police connect vulnerable people on the street with social services to help them avoid going to jail.

And the discussion concludes with a look at how Seattle City Council races this time around are seeing record-high campaign spending from independent groups -- even though one of the selling points of moving to district elections was that it would make campaigns cheaper.