Costs go up as revenue goes down: inside Sound Transit's latest projections
New estimates from Sound Transit show a surprise spike in transit cost estimates. The mayor weighs in as we take your calls. And what to expect as Washington begins its once-a-decade redistricting process.
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Mayor Jenny Durkan joins us for her weekly conversation and discusses the latest news regarding the Seattle Police Department, Sound Transit, and COVID-19 vaccination.
A $5 billion transit surprise
Sound Transit is looking to expand light rail transit lines across the Puget Sound metro region -- the estimated cost of which just rose over 50 percent. With the pandemic hurting transit revenue, where will the money come from? Bill Radke speaks with Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff about the future of transportation in the region.
New decade, new districts
Every ten years the United States is tasked with taking a census, the results of which are used to decide the electoral district boundaries in each state. In Washington, a bipartisan commission of Republicans and Democrats redraws the lines. But who does that leave out, and what districts will change in 2021? Bill Radke speaks with Alison McCaffree, Executive Director of Politics of the Possible in Action, a nonpartisan nonprofit encouraging civic participation.
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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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