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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March 12th | Are we prejudiced against our future selves?
Embrace that rocking chair. The argument on nuclear power isn’t as cut and dried as it seems. And following this weekend’s crash, Boeing 737 Max 8s have been grounded in countries around the world – but not here.
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March 11th | Heather Anderson’s thirst to be the best
Go big (across the entire country) or go home. Boeing’s latest 737 Max 8 crash is raising serious safety and training questions. How do you recover from addiction? And the queer community you might be overlooking in so-called flyover states.
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This week we’re asking: Do tech companies have too much power?
Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with KUOW’s web editor Sydney Brownstone, co-chair of the Washington Independents Chris Vance and Crosscut’s politics reporter Melissa Santos.
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March 7th | “As you can imagine, it’s a complex decision”: Mike O’Brien on tapping out
Councilmember Mike O’Brien gives us an exit interview. The Not In My Backyard Olympics have come to Magnolia. And a new law could reverse decades of Native disenfranchisement in Washington State.
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The luxury of saying 'No.'
"No." The word is an exclamation. It’s a noun. It’s a complete sentence. It's also a luxury, according to poet Anastacia-Reneé Tolbert.
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March 6th | NFL combine: understandable, or exploitative?
Young men on display: not Chippendales, but the NFL combine. Washington might ban single use plastic bags, but how should we think about the specific outcomes of our actions on creatures like orcas? And the club of people cured of HIV/AIDS seems to have just doubled in size.
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March 5th | But does it spark joy?
In the battle for our consumerist souls: between Amazon and Marie Kondo, who will triumph? Mandatory housing affordability is not without its critics. And when you picture an environmentalist: who do you see?
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March 4th | Will Paine Field make the friendly skies a little more convenient?
Sometimes good things can come in smaller airport packages. Shrimp are sucking oyster farms into the mud; controversial new legislation would change that. The indelible leopard continues to captivate our minds. And we talk about the rise of fentanyl.
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How do you handle your fears? Do you run the other way or face them head on?
How do you handle your fears? Do you run the other way or face them head on? What are you afraid of? Do you really know?
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This week there is a green new presidential candidate
Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with the C is for Crank writer Erica Barnett, Seattle Channel’s Civic Cocktail host Joni Balter and columnist for Crosscut Knute Berger.