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Bill Radke

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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

  • classroom desks

    May 8th | Are multiple choice tests canceled?

    Now you can graduate without standardized testing. Cash: the newest frontier in retail? How to survive a bear in the wild. And infiltrating white nationalism in the Pacific Northwest.

  • caption: Tree swallows in Atascadero.

    May 7th | Why we need better arguing

    Eric Liu says we need better arguing, and less stupid arguing, to make our democracy better. KUOW's Joshua McNichols explains the tax hike passed by the state legislature. And UW Professor Saadia Pekkanen tells us about the new space race.

  • caption: Kirstjen Nielsen, then Homeland Security Secretary, testified on Capitol Hill before the House Homeland Security Committee in March. She said "cases of fake families are cropping up everywhere," among the surge of migrants at the Southern border.

    May 6th | How scared should you be of stories in the news?

    Former U.S. Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano talks about her book, "How Safe Are We?" We also talk about our complicated relationships with our mothers with Michelle Filgate. And we look at how Washington state is prepping for ... the plague?

  • caption: Melissa Santos, Bill Radke, Essex Porter and Bill Finkbeiner

    Week in Review: Our legislative wrap-up

    Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with Essex Porter, reporter for KIRO TV, Melissa Santos, reporter for Crosscut, and Bill Finkbeiner, former state legislator.

  • caption: An apocalyptic scene - could this be us soon?

    May 2nd | The human game may be coming to a close

    Bill McKibben says it might be curtains for humanity. Cass Sunstein says social movements may surprise you, but they shouldn’t. And a look at one controversial social movement: affirmative action.
  • caption: U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand speaks to Women March attendees in the rotunda of the Iowa State Capitol in 2019.

    May 1st | Democracy vouchers go national

    Kirsten Gillibrand might take a local experiment across the country. Is it possible to consume in a carbon neutral way? A look at how the values that made America great are now bringing America down. And what happens when the roller derby leaves your town.
  • caption: Memory loss may be a sign of dementia.

    April 30th | Living a life with dementia and with joy

    Tia Powell tells us about how to focus on care over cure when it comes to dementia. We also look at how sea stars are making a comeback in the Salish Sea. And we talk to a University of Washington professor who's making "social emotional learning" a middle school class. Plus: How big money funders can "movement capture" small activist organizations.
  • caption: The crane that collapsed at Fairview Avenue and Mercer Street in downtown Seattle ... five hours before it fell.

    April 29th | Cranes in the sky

    How worried should you be when you look up? Is the Jeopardy! crown being passed to a successor? What exactly happened in the dark of the night in Olympia? And soon, cameras may be watching you from the supermarket aisles: how does it affect your privacy?

  • caption: Chris Vance, Knute Berger, Bill Radke and Monica Guzman

    To impeach, or not to impeach?

    Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with former Republican state representative and now Independent Chris Vance, Crosscut columnist Knute Berger, and co-founder of The Evergrey Mónica Guzmán