What's in a poll?
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Bill Radke reviews the week’s news with former Port of Seattle commissioner Bill Bryant, Gyasi Ross is a Seattle attorney and host of the podcast, Breakdances with Wolves and Monica Nickelsburg is the Civic Innovation Editor for Geekwire.
This week the Washington State Supreme Court ruled to end the death penalty in Washington state. They said that it has been applied arbitrarily and with racial bias. How much does this matter?
A new Crosscut/Elway Poll has Republican Dino Rossi ahead of Democrat Kim Schrier by nearly 10 points. It’s one poll, so does it matter? How are polls used in political campaigns to gain votes?
And this week the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report that says urgent and unprecedented changes need to happen now in order to . What do we do? Is Initiative 1631 the answer?
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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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