KCTS 9 Connects For February 29, 2008

Should the Ballard Denny's go?

Cathy Allen and Republican Strategist Randy Pepple join Enrique Cerna to recap the week's political happenings.

This legislative session looked to be a promising one for the environment, with a slew of bills that would have banned plastic water bottles and grocery bags, restricted lead and mercury in products, reduced greenhouse emissions, and even created a new industry of "green jobs." But with the legislative session coming to a close, what happened to all those bills? King County Eco-Consumer Tom Watson updates us on this year's eco-bills -- what passed, what didn't, and why.

Sixty years ago, a group of African American soldiers was court martialed for rioting and the lynching of an Italian prisoner of war at Seattle's Fort Lawton. But last year, the Army exonerated the men, deciding they did not get a fair trial. Now, in an update to this story CNX first brought you in November , the Army has decided how much compensation the surviving soldiers sho