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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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to two businesses that opposed the head tax about what solutions they're hoping to see, now that the head tax has been repealed.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...
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Seattle: Do you dress like you're going to have a 'hiking emergency'?
Here we are in balmy June-uary, still clad in waterproof — and arguably unstylish — garb. With our tendency to dress like a "hiking emergency" could...
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Alas, poor head tax: we hardly knew thee
It might be time to raise the parting glass to Seattle's head tax, which passed last month in a contentious (yet unanimous) city council vote. Amid a...
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Seattle City Council could lose its solution to homelessness crisis
The city of Seattle appears to be doing an about-face on the new employee head tax on businesses. The City Council approved the tax unanimously a month...
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Bearing pain - and new life - 'Like a Mother'
When Seattle writer Angela Garbes first became a mom, she wrote a piece on breastfeeding that went viral. It remains the most-read article The Stranger...
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Weekend recap: Remembering Anthony Bourdain
Bill Radke remembers chef and TV host Anthony Bourdain with our panel, Andrea Otanez , journalist and lecturer in journalism and and communications at...
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Motherhood, through thick and thin
Over the weekend, protesters gathered at Sea-Tac Airport, where almost two hundred female asylum seekers are being detained. Many of the women are...
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When it comes to Native issues, is Bob Ferguson any better than Trump?
You know the drainage pipes you sometimes see sticking out from underneath a road? They're called culverts. And they're creating a division between...
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Do it for the 'gram - just not on local hiking trails
Springtime in Seattle means your social media feeds are probably filling up with shots of pristine alpine lakes, breathtaking summits, and gorgeous old...
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Spoiler alert: 'There Are No Grownups'
Yesterday, San Francisco had a special election for a new mayor. That city is facing a homelessness problem on a par with Seattle's, but approaching it...