Durkan’s surprise announcement
She’ll be leaving office after her first and only term as mayor – meaning our Thursday call-ins are now finite. A look how her term has been characterized, and a look at the state’s response to foster kids with advanced needs for care. And finally, one family’s exploration of gender.
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Mayor Durkan is not running for re-election
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced today -- she is not running for re-election. Durkan had officially launched a re-election bid back in February. She joined Bill Radke to talk about why she changed her mind.
Analyzing Mayor Durkan's departure
Kevin Schofield of SCC Insight analyses the Mayor's conversation with Bill, and why Mayork Durkan won't be running for re-election.
Secretary of the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families, Ross Hunter
Last week, we spoke to reporter named Rachel Nielsen on from Investigate West about Washington State's missed deadline to bring back foster children with severe behavioral challenges from out-of-state foster care facilities. Today Ross Hunter, Secretary of the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families joins us to explain why.
Marlo Mack on her new audio book: 'How to Be a Girl'
Marlo Mack is the creator of the podcast How to Be A Girl, and her audio book is just out. She tells the story of raising her transgender daughter and what it took for her to understand her child wasn’t just a boy who liked girly things.
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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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