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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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.
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Has the blue wave hit Washington state?
Bill Radke talks to KUOW's Olympia correspondent Austin Jenkins and KING 5's Natalie Brand about the results from last night's primary.
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August 7th | How to mourn a legend? Read the work.
Two poets say goodbye to Toni Morrison. What's the AG doing about the income tax ban? A recap of last night's primary elections, and an investigation of whether it works to shame people into voting.
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August 6th | 8chan comes to Bellevue, and many aren’t happy about it
Who gives extremist sites shelter? Examining your mother through a different lens once you join her as a parent. Helping a sibling get away with murder. And: don’t get SIM swapped (bad news: there is almost nothing you can do to keep this from happening).
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August 5th | Raising a red flag on potential mass shooters
If you see something and say something: what happens next? Sub Pop’s rise to greatness. Mass extinction on the horizon. And Seattle waves farewell to a noted chef.