Midterm recap: Is Washington more progressive today than it was yesterday?
A lot depends on who you ask. We talked district elections, ballot measures, and the tea leaves of turnout. Author Susan Orlean also made an appearance to chat about her new book.
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District 8 and more
Which way did Washington state independents go? What did that mean for races across the state? We asked strategists Randy Pepple and Cathy Allen (Republican and Democratic respectively), as well as Seattle Times columnist Melissa Santos.
State level recap of WA midterm
What happened in Olympia? Capital correspondents Austin Jenkins (KUOW) and Melissa Santos (Seattle Times) broke down the big state stories for us. And we spoke to a panel of reporters about the fate of the ballot initiatives: KUOW's Casey Martin, Amy Radil, and Ruby DeLuna, as well as the Seattle Times' Hal Bernton.
Susan Orlean, The Library Book
Author Susan Orlean's new book is about a massive fire in the LA library that somehow slipped under the radar. Do we just read more in Seattle? Or was there more to it?
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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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