This week…

Ballard residents got bad news about their long-delayed light rail extension.

Seattle is getting its seventh Trader Joe's, this time at Northgate. 

And hundreds of "love locks" were cut off of a bridge in Gig Harbor. 

KUOW Editor Phyllis Fletcher and Film Critic Chase Hutchinson are here to break down the week.

Read Chase's Project Hail Mary piece here.

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