A pandemic, a high school senior, and an essential job
A trifecta of stressful scenarios all resting on one 17-year-old’s shoulders. Talking budgets with the County Executive. And burnout is affecting everyone right now, but this author argues that it never really stopped affecting millennials.
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High school essential worker
It’s hard to be a high school student right now, and stressful to be an essential worker. High school senior Maddy Bowles is both. She spoke with Bill Radke about how COVID-19 has changed her life.
King County Executive Dow Constantine 9.29
It’s budget time. What does that look like in King County: across law enforcement, homelessness, transit, marijuana consumption? We asked County Executive Dow Constantine on his regular Tuesday visit to the show.
Anne Helen Petersen, Can't Even
“I can’t even.” From earnest exclamation to skewered saying, the phrase has never really not been true for millennials, argues Anne Helen Petersen. After her viral piece on the topic last year, Petersen’s new book is called Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation.
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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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