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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Pastor Pat Wright reflects on her legacy in Seattle
Today on the Record, we talk to Pastor Patrinell Wright, author Neal Bascomb, and Seattle Times reporter Joseph O'Sullivan.
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The fight for $15 has come to a warehouse near you
Amazon is raising its minimum wage to $15. Is it enough to placate Kshama Sawant (or Bernie Sanders, for that matter)? And when it comes to income inequality: is it enough, period?
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From Anita Hill to Christine Blasey Ford, what's changed?
In the 27 years between Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearings and Brett Kavanaugh's, how far has the country really come?
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"When they were good, they were very very good" - a Mariners postmortem
The playoff run that wasn’t.
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A week of hearings, arenas and 'dairy, sugar-flavored somethings'
Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with former Mayor of Tacoma of Marilyn Strickland, the President and CEO of The Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Monica Guzman, the co-founder of the Seattle newsletter The Evergrey and Jessyn Farrell, former Washington State representative and senior vice president at Civic Ventures.
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"I believe Judge Kavanaugh." One woman's defense of Supreme Court nominee, as sexual misconduct allegations mount.
As a third woman comes forward with allegations of sexual misconduct by Brett Kavanaugh, Heritage Foundation legal fellow Elizabeth Slattery explains why #IStandWithBrett.
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How good people become great leaders
A presidential historian reminds us that the country has passed through rocky times before.
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Mayor Durkan explains her first budget
Bill Radke spoke to Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan about her proposed budget and what it says about her priorities for next year.
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Does the city's new budget put its money where its mouth is?
With the new budget out, what will the city of Seattle be funding – or cutting – in the next year?
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Sometimes, #WhyIDidntReport is because of what happens to those who do
This weekend, Twitter lit up with the hashtag #WhyIDidn’tReport. That was in response to the president’s assertion that if the sexual assault Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is accused of was “as bad as she says,” charges would have been immediately filed by either Blasey Ford "or her loving parents."