Is it too soon to start listening to holiday music?
Never – and besides, it’s been a rough year. A look at the state’s pattern of issues following the guidelines it sets around foster youth. And this week’s chat with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
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Mariah Carey's Christmas album: the sounds of a simpler past
This time last year, we could still leave our houses and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” celebrated its 25th birthday by hitting #1 on the Billboard charts. And while correlation does not imply causation, it felt like time to look back on those halcyon days when we could sing carols indoors with our friends, lips unmasked. Last year, Bill Radke talked wassailing with Seattle singer-songwriter SassyBlack and KEXP’s Abbie Gobeli.
Foster kids in out-of-state custody
The state of Washington’s deadline to return foster youth from out-of-state placements has come and gone. To discuss the issues currently facing foster kids, Bill Radke spoke with Rachel Nielsen at InvestigateWest, who’s been following the story.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan 12.3
The budget’s been passed and the holidays are underway – including for Mayor Jenny Durkan. In this week’s conversation, she spoke with Bill about what got funded, what got left out, and how the city and region are preparing for a possible vaccine (and a likely surge in cases before we get there).
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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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