Share the road (tax)
If you drive a car, you’ll probably be paying a new kind of tax. The best of the best in books of the 2010s. And an oncologist’s experience with psychedelics.
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Road use charge
Hybrid and electric vehicle drivers aren’t paying such a high gas tax anymore - but they’re still using the same roads and bridges as everyone else. So the state is experimenting with a per mile charge. Mary Frost at the WPC Coles Center for Transportation at the Washington Policy Center opposes that charge.
Nancy Pearl's best books of the 2010s
Are you ready for the Roaring Twenties? More importantly, is your bookshelf? Beloved Seattle librarian and book critic Nancy Pearl joined Marcie Sillman for a review of the best books of the decade, year by year.
Oncologist tries psilocybin
Dr. Tony Back is a University of Washington oncologist who learned how psychedelic drugs could help patients facing death… by trying it for himself. The resulting piece is called “What Psilocybin Taught Me About Dying.”
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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