In the rush to shade Amazon, have we forgotten about Microsoft?
Why people see the two tech giants in different lights. Why the snow forecast was so extravagantly wrong. And why you might choose to continue sleeping outside, despite the cold.
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Microsoft president Brad Smith
Many of the conversations around corporate conduct have focused on one behemoth: Amazon. But before there was Amazon, there was a little company called Microsoft. President Brad Smith spoke with Bill Radke about the company’s ambitious carbon strategy, as well as its controversial collaboration with immigration enforcement.
The Case of the Phantom Snow
Checking the 10-day forecast can be a crapshoot – at one point, six inches of snow were forecast for this relatively clear day. Why are winter weather predictions so often wrong? We asked Scott Sistek, web meteorologist for KOMO News.
Joshua Tritt, Homeless in Seattle
From the outside, it seems easy to judge the decisions of folks sleeping without shelter. If it’s below freezing, why wouldn’t you go into a shelter? There are a lot of reasons ranging from a desire to stay clean to social anxiety. Joshua Tritt is homeless and lives in Seattle. He spoke about his life with Bill Radke. Josh also maintains a blog, which you can check out at bit.ly/joshtritt.
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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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