The Overcast

Jim and Dan sit down with colleague Bob Young to talk about how a Trump administration may deal with legal pot. There are lots of fears about Attorney General pick Jeff Sessions, but Bob notes Trump has said marijuana should be left up to the states - and he doesn't think Trump gains anything by picking a fight on this. Then, the ACLU's Alison Holcomb - author of Washington's legal marijuana law - talks about a related cause: ending mass incarceration due to drug crimes. She helped lead a campaign in Oklahoma where voters just made simple possession of any drug a misdemeanor instead of a felony. Washington state may follow suit. Bonus content: Bob Young riffs on the new strain of Hunter S. Thompson branded weed. And why Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is this week's political winner, while Seattle voters lose.

We ask to Seattle Times reporter Hal Bernton about the prospects for a tax on carbon in Washington state after the defeat of Initiative 732. And we talk to Hal about his reporting on what it would take for Donald Trump to bring jobs back to Skamania County. Then we break down Seattle's new two-year budget.

Donald Trump has clashed with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos over the Washington Post's aggressive coverage. Trump also has claimed the company has "a huge anti-trust problem." Seattle Times Amazon beat reporter Àngel Gonzàlez explains what the Trump administration could mean for the giant Seattle employer. Then GOP consultant Keith Schipper makes the case that local Republicans did better than many thought possible in Washington this year, especially in legislative races.

How did Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton? What does it mean for our area? And what else happened Tuesday night? We conduct an election post-mortem with news columnist Jerry Large and assistant digital editor Gina Cole.

We hear from Seattle Times environment reporter Lynda V. Mapes about her on-the-ground coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, including a herd of bison thundering past demonstrators, and host a debate about the $54 billion Sound Transit 3 ballot. Plus, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson notches a win over a trade association for grocery giants.

A new suitor for a possible Sonics arena emerges. We talk with Seattle Times reported Geoff Baker about the effort to revive KeyArena for basketball, and how it complicates Chris Hansen's rival SoDo arena plan. Then, veteran Washington pollster Stuart Elway talks polling methods, who's winning Washington races, and Donald Trump's claims of 'rigged' polls. Also, a Halloween special: what's scaring Republicans and Democrats this fall?

Donald Trump says the election is "rigged" with voter fraud. But Washington's Republican Secretary of State Kim Wyman says Trump doesn't know what he's talking about. She says even the state's controversial 2004 governor's race didn't show widespread fraud. Also, Seattle Times Olympia reporter Joseph O'Sullivan joins us to break down the final gubernatorial debate - including where Jay Inslee and Bill Bryant stand on police shootings.

This week, ace transportation reporter Mike Lindblom gives a progress report on Bertha, the giant Seattle tunneling machine now halfway through its work on a waterfront tunnel. Then, a debate on I-124, the Seattle initiative run by a hotel-workers union that would require "panic button" and other protections for housekeepers and other hotel workers - rules hotel owners say are onerous and that would create an unfair "blacklist" of guests accused of harassment. This week's winner: Seattle's notorious "process" Loser: state Republicans dragged down and divided by Trump.

This week, we look at the food fight over Washington Initiative 732, which would create the nation's first state carbon tax to fight climate change but which has divided environmentalists and progressives. I-732 proponent Yoram Bauman says it's great policy. Critic Rebecca Saldana argues it's a product of a "white-privileged" environmental movement. Also: why Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Seattle taxpayers lost big this week.

This week, we host a progressive-off debate between Pramila Jayapal and Brady Walkinshaw, finalists for Seattle's uber-liberal 7th Congressional District seat. Also: the notion of a state-income tax gets panned by both Gov. Jay Inslee and GOP challenger Bill Bryant.