Coronavirus in 2021: new vaccines and a viral variant
Washington fights to keep the Seattle National Archives. A methanol plant on the Columbia River draws environmental concerns. How remote life is increasing access to therapy (at a cost to privacy). And the current state of COVID-19 vaccination in Washinton state.
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Washington's fight for the Seattle National Archives
Last year, Seattle historians and indigenous tribes warned that federal sale and closure of the Seattle National Archives Repository at Sand Point was an erasure of history. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Fawn Sharp, President of the National Congress of American Indians Quinault Indians, are fighting to stop the sale.
Proposed methanol plant draws environmental concerns in Kalama
Last month a Washington State study found a high likelihood that a proposed methanol factory on the Columbia River could slow greenhouse gas emissions. But slowing emissions isn't the same as not emitting at all. Daily News Reporter Mallory Gruben fills us in on what the plant will produce and the environmental protests against it.
John Moe on teletherapy
The pandemic has made it difficult to visit your therapist. For many, the pandemic is reason enough to start therapy altogether. So how effective is remote therapy, and should we be concerned about the technology used to facilitate it? Bill Radke speaks with John Moe, author of "The Hilarious World of Depression."
COVID-19 vaccinations begin
KUOW Reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch gives us an on the ground look at those getting the latest coronavirus vaccines.
Dr. Jeff Duchin on COVID vaccination
While the new coronavirus mutation hasn't made its way to the Pacific North West, health officials say it's only a matter of time. Bill Radke speaks with King County Public Health Officer Dr. Jeff Duchin about the current state of vaccination: how many Washingtonians have a vaccine, how many more are on the way, and how concerned we should be about the variant virus.
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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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