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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'We live in a jewel of a place that comes with wild risks'
Two Seattle residents were biking near the Cascade foothills this weekend when a cougar attacked them.
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Today's Supreme Court decision: a 'license to break the law'?
The Notorious RBG was likely wearing her dissent collar this morning, as she issued a scathing rebuttal to the majority decision in today's case. At...
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Mini-episode: Two small doses of good news
Fatal cougar attacks are rare - the last one in Washington state was years before the Great Depression. One cyclist was killed, and another badly...
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Weekend recap: A royal wedding and a rare cougar attack
Bill Radke recaps the biggest stories of the weekend, including the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the cougar attack in Washington, and why...
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Your immigration status could soon be in the high-tech eye of the beholder
Assumptions about which passport line you belong in, the president's so-called Muslim ban, "random" screening that seems to target certain populations - airports are increasingly a frontier of ethnic and religious bias. Could we bypass some of those problems by taking the human element out of screening?
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Should barriers be lowered to get the homeless housed?
One big question people have asked in the conversation about homelessness and affordability is: can we trust the city to spend this money effectively?
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The Record: Thursday, May 17, 2018
Opponents of Seattle's new employee head tax are not giving up - they're trying to get the tax repealed. KUOW's Amy Radil sat down with Bill Radke to...
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SIFF film 'Always' captures director's journey after losing a child
Angela DiMarco never intended to make a public film about the loss of her son. It started as a small project to help her grieve. But her short film, "...
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Pluto, a (dwarf) planet that is alive, vibrant and waiting to be understood
Pluto has long been misunderstood. In 2006 it was declared 'not a planet.' A decision planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern calls B.S. (bad science).
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Andy Slavitt gives us a COVID check-in from 40,000 feet
Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano will have some extra time to recover from a broken hand. Yesterday, Cano was suspended for half a season...