A spirited debate from the King County Council race
District 4 gets real. A LEAD explainer. Behind the scenes of Minecraft. And the mysterious shift behind the JEDI contract.
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Doerr/Kohl-Welles debate
King County Council incumbent Jeanne Kohl-Welles is facing a young challenger in Abigail Doerr. They discuss their positions and why you should vote for them.
Daugaard on LEAD
Not everyone who commits a crime should be prosecuted. That’s the idea behind LEAD – Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion – which just won its creator Lisa Daugaard a MacArthur Genius Grant.
MoPOP Minecraft exhibit
Minecraft has become a pop culture phenomenon: Youtube careers, a Netflix show, and next year – Minecraft: The Movie. MoPOP has recently launched Minecraft the Exhibition; The Record’s Sarah Leibovitz went behind the scenes.
Surprise upset in DOD's JEDI contract
Amazon looked like a shoe-in for the Department of Defense’s JEDI contract. So even competitor Microsoft was surprised when they were tapped for the bid over the Bezos empire. We asked Geekwire’s Monica Nickelsburg to explain why.
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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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