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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Weekend recap: Should you feel bad about going whale watching?
Bill Radke talks with our panel about the declining number of orcas in Puget Sound and if we should stop whale watching. We also look at the New York...
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This week the city taxeth and the city taketh away
This week, it was off with the head tax. The Seattle City Council voted to repeal the employee tax just weeks after unanimously voting to instate it....
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How to teach kids the art of self-control
Bill Radke talks with author Katherine Reynolds Lewis about her new book, " The Good News About Bad Behavior: Why Kids Are Less Disciplined Than Ever —...
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Seattle’s fallen ‘head tax’ may still be a thing — in California
The Seattle City Council brought the short-lived "head tax" into the world last month — and last Tuesday, the council proved that it could take it out too.
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How James Baldwin schooled Robert F. Kennedy on race in America
Last week was the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Bobby Kennedy was remembered as a civil rights advocate, but it's more...
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Is there good news about your parental anxiety?
The fall of the house of head tax in Seattle might cast a shadow all the way to California. Mountain View is considering a head tax on its own tech...
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Slowly, soccer is winning Americans over
Bill Radke talks to Roger Bennett, co-host of the NBC Sports show "Men In Blazers" about the rise of soccer's popularity in the U.S. and the 2018 World...
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Business owners won the head tax fight. Now, do they have a plan to fund housing?
Yesterday, the city council voted 7-2 to repeal its freshly passed head tax. Glenn Kellman of Redfin and Saul Spady of Cre8ive Empowerment opposed the...
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Should Seattle's Christian churches get into politics?
Did you know that Seattle has the second most places of worship per capita in the nation? We are also the second most religiously unaffiliated city in...
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Seattle businesses disagree on what comes next, after head tax repeal
Bill Radke talks to two businesses that opposed the head tax about what solutions they're hoping to see, now that the head tax has been repealed. What...