Bill Radke
Host
About
Bill hosts Week In Review.
Before that, he created and hosted the NPR humor show Rewind and hosted the Marketplace Morning Report, covering the day's national/international business news.
He's been a KUOW reporter, news director, and interview host; also, a stand-up comedian and Seattle P-I newspaper columnist.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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School’s almost out – but only for the summer
Students will be back on campus this fall; school resource officers will not.
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June 11th | Live from the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Word on the street (12th and Pine, to be precise). Cops out of schools. And a search for answers in Tacoma.
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June 10th | How Seattle could defund the police
City councilmembers are considering the measure. Also, a former governor takes the top job at a college during multiple upheavals. And what you’re seeing when you look at protest photos.
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The ballad of the 8th Precinct
"You have the riot to remain heard."
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June 9th | “That’s not in the DNA of American policing”: a former chief calls for change
What 50 years on or observing the force has taught Norm Stamper. A chat with the county executive. And what a KUOW reporter saw last night at the East Precinct.
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Who has the right to violence in America?
"If violence is a political language, white Americans are native speakers. But black people are also fluent in the act of resistance."
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June 8th | These doctors say: no more gas
How tear gas spreads COVID-19. What the House of Representatives is doing to reform police. Who’s allowed to wield violence in America. And youth-led protest in Burien.
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"You don't see this type of youth influence anywhere else in the area"
In fight for equality, young People of Color in Burien, Washington say their city can be a model for other communities
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A week of protests, reviewed
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Univision Seattle's Pablo Gaviria, Kiro-7's Essex Porter, and Civic Cocktail's Joni Balter.
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June 5th | Tanks in the streets?
A tough look at just how militarized police should be. Also: protester demands, a reversal on the consent decree, and a voice of the pandemic.