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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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to two businesses that opposed the head tax about what solutions they're hoping to see, now that the head tax has been repealed.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...
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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...