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This week we're talking about safety and ethics

caption: Jessyn Farrell, Bill Radke, Joni Balter and Rob McKenna [L-R]
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Jessyn Farrell, Bill Radke, Joni Balter and Rob McKenna [L-R]
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Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with Seattle Channel’s Civic Cocktail host Joni Balter, former Washington State representative Jessyn Farrell and former Washington State attorney general Rob McKenna.

This week the FAA grounded the Boeing 737 Max jet after a second fatal crash, this time in Ethiopia. The grounding came after countries around the globe stopped flying the plane. Why did the FAA wait so long to ground the 737 Max?

The biggest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Justice Department broke this week. Fifty people were charged in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly paid an estimated $25 million in bribes to college coaches and other insiders to get their children into elite schools. What are the ethics of helping get your kids into schools?

Plus, transportation news, library fines and sunny weather at last.

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