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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Mayor Durkan responds to proposed payroll tax
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan joins us for her weekly check-in.
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April 23rd | How well is Seattle taking care of its homeless residents?
We hear from a homeless services care coordinator, as well as mayor Durkan. What an antibody test might mean for public health, and for you. And is vote by mail the solution to the danger coronavirus poses to the nation’s current election system?
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Antibody testing: not a magic bullet
As much as we might like to hope that expanded testing is the key.
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April 22nd | Franklin County to Inslee: “you can’t make me.” But can he?
Who’s got the final say about shutdown policy? What might antibody testing reveal? And who became the biggest carbon loser?
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Is the stay-at-home order unconstitutional?
The stay-at-home order includes places of worship. Bill Radke speaks with Rob McKenna the former Attorney General of Washington about the legal authority of the Governor and Washington counties.
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How Washington Republicans want to restart the economy before Inslee's stay-at-home order ends
Washington state Senator Ann Rivers says she doesn't believe that Gov. Jay Inslee will ease up on the stay-at-home order when it is set to expire on May 4.
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April 21st | Your selfishness doesn’t trump my right to be safe, says county executive
The tension some see between liberty to flout the stay at home order and the life that compliance would protect. One Republican lawmaker’s contradictory reasoning. The state attorney general on measures he’s implementing to protect Washingtonians. And a surgeon about how coronavirus has changed his ORs.
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The game that went on despite a pandemic
On March 7th, the Seattle Sounders played a home game. 33,000 people squeezed into CenturyLink Field – where days before, a concessions worker had tested positive for COVID-19. Why did the game go forward, and who made the final call?
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"I think we all have an opportunity to really meet ourselves right now": thoughts from a death doula
The body knows how to die.
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April 20th | A state of emergency had been declared. A stadium employee had tested positive for Covid-19. Why did this Sounders match happen anyway?
What went into the decision to let the game go on. How anxious is social distancing making you? And how are you dealing with thoughts about death? Lastly, some voices of the pandemic.