Hey, Seattle: Bill Gates wants you to push the clouds away
Will 10 minutes of daily meditation change your life? We talk you through Jay Inslee’s climate proposals, and through the drama at today’s White House meeting over border wall funding. The XFL is coming to town, and some local schools are not getting passing grades when it comes to cafeteria inspections.
Tim Burnett, Mindfulness Northwest
Your favorite billionaire and mine, William Henry Gates III, puts out a book list of his top five reads every year. This year, one wildcard was The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness. Why does he say it’s a book for our times? We asked Tim Burnett, executive director of Mindfulness Northwest.
Inslee's Climate Ambitions
Jay Inslee has proposed a cornucopia of clean energy proposals, from electric hybrid ferries to eliminating coal-powered electricity. KUOW environment reporter John Ryan shares the ins and outs.
Trump, Pelosi, Schumer, and the border
The headlines are currently screaming that the president would be “proud to shut down the government.” But between power plays by Nancy Pelosi and jabs from Chuck Schumer, what else happened at the meeting with Congressional Democratic leadership? Domenico Montanaro is NPR’s lead editor for politics.
The XFL is coming to Seattle
The NHL is on its way to Seattle. But there’s another sports league that will get here first: the XFL. How is it different from the NFL? And, frankly, why us? Andrew Hammond is News Tribune sports reporter, and shares his thoughts.
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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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