It’s Mueller time
The report is out: what does it tell us, and what doesn’t it say? What are we truly grieving when we mourn Notre Dame? Should we really be approaching mental health one day at a time? And a conversation about upzoning in Eastlake.
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McKay on Mueller
The report finds that the Russian government did interfere in the election in "sweeping and systematic fashion.” The report tells us more about why the special counsel did not charge the president or his campaign with conspiring in or coordinating that interference. Former US Attorney for the Western District of Washington, John McKay, knows Robert Mueller well and joined us to read between the lines.
Dorothy Kim, Notre Dame
Since the Notre Dame Cathedral burned this week, there's been a public outpouring of grief. "Such a loss to history." But history is complicated – are you sure what you're grieving for? Professor Dorothy Kim teaches medieval history at Brandeis University.
Mental health days
When's the last time you took a mental health day? Did you feel better the next day? Or do you need more than a day to recover? Mental health days are great, says Dr. Astrid Pujari of the Virginia Mason Medical Center, but we need to stop thinking of our mental health as something that can be "fixed" in a day.
MHA in Capitol Hill
There’s a plan to upzone 27 neighborhoods to create more affordable housing in the city – and not everyone agrees where we should put it. Kris Olson, a homeowner in north Capitol Hill, offered his take on the Mandatory Housing Affordability plan.
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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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