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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August 21st | When security at home is about more than a deposit
Should domestic violence victims have to pay for repairs to their rentals due to violence (and if not, who will)? What would happen if we removed the Snake River dams? And how are Washington water rights handed out anyway? A look at at an 18-year-old cold case. And a look back at the day the Beatles came to the Coliseum (that’s Key Arena, for you youngsters).
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August 20th | Life sciences boom in South Lake Union
The expansion of life sciences development. Ron and Don speak. How to survive the onslaught of fake news. And what to do if you think you’re at risk of being swatted.
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August 19th | Is apathy creep enabling corruption in this Eastern Washington town?
Small town corruption. Protections for domestic violence survivors. How to fix our broken school system. Wolves and humpbacks are both rebounding in the Pacific Northwest: one is much more celebrated than the other.
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Live from the Mount Baker Theatre, it's Week in Review!
Bill Radke reviews the week's news in Bellingham, at the Mount Baker Theatre, with Luke Burbank of Live Wire, Joni Balter of Civic Cocktail, and author Antonio García Martínez.
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X may be a gender option on driver’s licenses soon. But why is gender being tracked at all?
Take a look at your Washington state driver’s license. There are several numbered fields – and soon, one of them might change.
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August 14th | “I consider it a newspaper for the mundane”: dispatches from Seattle Walk Report
Taking a walk on the overlooked side with the viral Instagram project. Washington’s former state transportation head says that when it comes to pedestrian deaths, enough is enough. Gender markers on driver’s licenses: more options, more problems? And, should Narcan be in schools?
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August 13th | “I think loving is never enabling”: one man’s response to homelessness in Seattle
Cleaning up after camps. Fiction that gets at the truth. And comics anti-heroes.
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August 12th | It’s wine o’clock somewhere, amirite? A look inside “wine mom” culture
Mother’s little helper now comes in a glass rather than a pill bottle. How likely is it that we can stop opiate addiction on the streets? What it felt like to fly into a thunderstorm created by a wildfire. And a new science fiction improv podcast.
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Analyzing the primary results this week
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Erica C. Barnett of the C is for Crank, David Kroman of Crosscut, and freelance writer Hanna Brooks Olsen.
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August 8th | The wild wild West of vehicle ranching
Is this nothing more than AirBnB for the unsheltered? How community preference policy might allow longtime residents to stay in their homes. Luscious versus hearty: how much does marketing shape your gender ideas? And would it keep you from recycling? Lastly: signing away sovereignty to the medical establishment, and what that costs.