There's one week left. Have you voted?
Dow Constantine has, and he wants you to get on it. A look at neighborhood opposition to a homeless encampment in a Ballard park. And a trip into Maxine Waters’ greatest hits – plus the substance behind the snappy comebacks.
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King County Executive Dow Constantine 10.27
One week out from Election Day, King County Executive Dow Constantine talks voting, COVID, how to safely house our unsheltered neighbors, and more.
Neighbors complain of Ballard park encampments
As winter sets in with no sign of an end to the pandemic, a coalition of businesses and neighborhood groups wrote a letter to the mayor and city council lobbying them to act against homeless encampments. To hear where people are supposed to go, Bill Radke spoke with The Seattle Times’ Scott Greenstone.
Helena Andrews-Dyer and R. Eric Thomas, Reclaiming Her Time
How are your time management skills? Because Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ are famously on point. But how much do you know about the longtime legislator behind the staredowns over her glasses and ensuing merchandise? Consider R. Eric Thomas and Helena Andrews-Dyer’s new book Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters “the longest footnote ever to a t-shirt.”
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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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