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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Google fires engineer over anti-diversity memo
Bill Radke speaks with Slate tech writer April Glaser about the reasons that Google fired an engineer after he wrote a memo that questioned the ability...
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Debate: Who should decide what kind of surveillance tech Seattle Police uses?
Bill Radke speaks with Shankar Narayan, technology and liberty director of the ACLU, and Ron Hosko, president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund,...
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Tensions build in Burien as sanctuary ordinance heads to voters
Bill Radke talks with Craig Keller and Pedro Olguin about a Burien city ordinance meant to protect immigrants. The ordinance makes it illegal for city...
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What should we do about the goats in Olympic National Park?
Bill Radke speaks with Rob Smith, the Northwest regional director of the National Parks Conservation Association, about the Olympic National Park's plan...
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How do we fund art that serves everyone?
Bill Radke talks to Phillip Chavira, executive director of Intiman Theatre in Seattle, and Shontina Vernon, Seattle writer and musician, about what...
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Bellevue set to ban safe injection sites
Bill Radke speaks with Bellevue Mayor John Stokes about why the city is set to ban safe injection sites from the city. King County has said that it will...
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She didn’t realize how wrong she was about kids until her son joined a gang
Marty Jackson runs the Southeast Area Network of the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative. For years, she had worked with Stephan Stewart,...
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This week we're sweating out the news
Are you hot? We're hot. It's hot. Not as hot as it could be because of the smoke from British Columbia's wildfires, but we're still in a heat wave with...
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How Washington state's law against affirmative action has hurt, or helped, college students
Bill Radke speaks with Eugene Volokh and Dr. Jim Sulton Jr. about race-based college admissions. Washington state passed a law in 1998 that prevented...
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The Mooch and Apu: How does race play into comedy?
Bill Radke talks to comedians Liz Miele and Hari Kondabolu about representation and race in comedy. Is it okay to make fun of Anthony Scaramucci? What's...