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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July 22nd | With a mistaken email, Crystal Geyser controversy bubbles up
When Mercury retrograde accidentally blows the lid off the water wars. Sewage spills from treatment plans. Soda fizzes up into a divisive issue. And on less watery notes, Edgar Martinez makes the Baseball Hall of Fame and a KUOW series aims to focus on parents and kids with anxiety.
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An income tax ruling and Amazon strike this week
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Karen Weise of the New York Times, Essex Porter of KIRO-7 TV, and Joni Balter of the Seattle Channel's Civic Cocktail.
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July 18th | The astrological nature of big data
How big of a difference is there between predictive analytics and divining the future? The story of a man killed by police outside the Northwest Detention Center. Excuse me: is this beer local, organic, and salmon-safe? And from a distance, you look like my friend.
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July 17th | Seattle’s zoning restrictions are no match for Minecraft Earth
If you build it in AR, they will come. How smoky will August be, and what is Seattle doing to help you get through it? It’s been 50 years since we first went to the moon. Should we really go back? And how – and why – to talk about suicide.
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July 16th | Seattle’s flag: maybe it has a great personality?
Don’t let your freakish flag fly. Tax the rich! (Well, not in Seattle.) Moving homelessness out of your entire city’s backyard. And how to keep a searing photo from becoming just another image of suffering.
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July 15th | On Prime Day, one Amazon factory stands empty
The labor strike kicks off today. A look at the history of Silicon Valley culture (and how it sprang from war). And: why learn music theory from Shostakovich when you could learn from The Sugar Hill Gang?
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Seattle pops open new controversy with soda tax
Seattle’s tax on sweetened beverages – commonly known as the soda tax – has raised about $22 million in the year and a half it has been on the shelves. That’s about 50% more than predicted.
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July 2nd | BBQ tips from a SoDo favorite
We've got a BBQ expert with some tips for your July 4th celebrations. Plus: What should you know about submitting your DNA to a third-party app? How do you write satirical news headlines about Seattle? And we hear about how a church is saving parking lot spots for homeless residents living in vehicles.
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Poet Ocean Vuong's new novel is more than Briefly Gorgeous
"To be queer is to fail into your pleasure." The book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, is a letter from a son to his mother, who can't read. The poet says it's a monument to failure, to violence, to labor, to silence, to America.
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July 1st | Should Seattle ban the sales of e-cigarettes?
We talk about San Francisco's decision to ban the sales of e-cigarettes. We also look at a bill to protect employees in large hotels. And we air the second part of our conversation with poet and novelist Ocean Vuong. Plus: The anonymous founder of Seattle's satirical news site, "The Needling," reads some of their headlines.