Week in Review: Ed Murray resigns, Amazon HQ2
Seattle mayor Ed Murray resigns after one of the mayor’s cousins becomes the fifth man accusing him of sexual abuse in the past.
Meanwhile the two candidates running to replace him, Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon, meet in their first mayoral debate.
Tucson, Arizona sends Jeff Bezos a cactus to woo Amazon’s HQ2 to their city.
And football’s national anthem protests to call attention to racial inequity get kicked upstairs to the White House when an ESPN anchor calls the President a white supremacist.
Get caught up on the news:Seattle Times: Mayor Ed Murray's cousin: He sexually abused me tooSeattle Times: Durkan, Moon square off in debate overshadowed by Murray's resignationPuget Sound Business Journal: Arizona group sends Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos 21-foot cactus in headquarters bid
Our panel this week:
Phyllis Fletcher @phylfletch, managing editor of the Northwest News Network
Nikkita Oliver @nikkitaoliver, former mayoral candidate with the Seattle People's Party
Greg Nickels @gregnickels, former two-term Seattle mayor
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports, sports correspondent at The Nation magazine
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Bill Radke
Host
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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Jason Pagano
Interim News Director
Jason Pagano is KUOW's Assistant News Director. He previously worked as a producer on many of KUOW's local shows, including The Conversation, Weekday, The Record, Morning Edition and Week in Review. In 2020, he helped launch KUOW’s daily news podcast, Seattle Now.
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