Week in Review: crabs, Amazon, and gunfire detection

Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Insider’s Katherine Long, Geekwire’s Mike Lewis and KUOW’s Libby Denkmann.

Alaska Fish & Game officials announced this week they are canceling the fall red king crab harvest in Bristol Bay for the second year in a row and nixed the Bering Sea snow crab season for the first time ever. A 2019 Bering Sea warming is responsible for the declining snow crab population, and many fishermen might have to face going out of business. Who does this affect, and how?

Amazon is "doubling down on frugality," execs told employees yesterday during an all-hands meeting. In an effort to cut costs in recent months, Amazon has shut down many brick-and-mortar chains, all but one of its U.S. call centers, and shut down its telehealth service, among other moves. Who does it affect?

Bloomberg reported this week that a former Starbucks manager says he was instructed to discipline pro-union employees. David Almond managed several stores in the Buffalo, New York area and says higher-ups told him to come up with unrelated reasons to penalize those who supported unionization. Almond told the National Labor Relations Board about all of this back in August, and Bloomberg got his testimony thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request. Prosecutors with the U.S. labor board have accused the Seattle coffee giant of trying to bust up unionization efforts. Are these alleged practices legal?

Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to spend $1 million in the next budget on a gunfire detection system for certain neighborhoods, as gun violence continues to rise. But gun detection systems like Shotspotter are not without their skeptics. What are the pros and cons?