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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June 24th | More Democratic candidates seduced by the lure of student loan cancellation
Sallie Mae is about to feel the Bern. The Showbox game of Hot Potato continues apace. Congregations get serious about sanctuary. Some parking lots, however, are not so easily converted to towers. And the frisky four-legged fire prevention devices kicking up their heels in Chelan County.
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Governor Inslee's hero and is it a 'change' election year?
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Joni Balter, host of the Seattle Channel's Civic Cocktail, Eli Sanders, associate editor of The Stranger, and Dahlia Bazzaz, education reporter at the Seattle Times.
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June 20th | How to avoid crowded hiking trails this summer
Tips and tricks from a National Park Expert. Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America. Seattle isn't the only city in the midst of a homelessness crisis. Presidential hopefuls are open to the idea of expanding the Supreme Court. And did you know WA state has the hardest driving test in the country?
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June 19th | Is Seattle's soda tax succeeding or failing?
Seattle's been taxing sweetened beverages for over a year now. Meet the first-ever LGBTQ committee chair of the NAACP. We get a Boeing update from the Paris Air Show. And retired soccer star Abby Wambach talks about the fight for equal pay in women's sports.
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June 18th | A whale of a view
Gray whale as lawn ornament. A chat with the new head of the Nature Conservancy. And the case for incrementalism.
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June 17th | The view from a Shanghai taxi
A veteran NPR correspondent’s drive for the story. A tale of two counties. Forced conservatorship in San Francisco. And some of what we don’t know we don’t know about Kim Jong Un.
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Housing and Lawsuits Galore on the Week in Review
Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with Geekwire civic editor Monica Nickelsburg, Crosscut reporter David Kroman, and Seattle Times reporter Marcus Green.
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June 13th | Who’s your daddy?
ISO the father, via science and society. What will tech giants’ affordable housing money fund? Is teriyaki on the wane in Seattle? Is Alexa listening to your kids? And another tale of cold cases revived through DNA testing websites.
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June 12th | Are golf courses the solution to affordable housing?
Seattle's trying to decide if it should keep its four public golf courses as is. The US Women's soccer team set a new record! Would embracing air conditioning make us less "eco-friendly"? And is the cottonwood fluff worse than it used to be?
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How a UW geneticist is saving elephants with poop
The world is dealing with an unprecedented spike in illegal wildlife trade, threatening to overturn decades of conservation gains.