Political newcomer overtakes one of Seattle's civil rights icons
The end of an era on the King County Council. Lasting love from a mother nearing the end. And a new meditation on love from Tim O’Brien.
Council race updates
While election results are still streaming in, one election looks certain. For King County Council, Girmay Zahilay is defeating longtime councilmember Larry Gossett. We spoke to Zahilay about his victory, and his vision. Dan Strauss is a city council candidate whose opponent Heidi Wills has not yet conceded.
Caroline Wright, Lasting Love
When Seattle author Caroline Wright was told she had a year to live, she wrote her two young sons a picture book called Lasting Love. She spoke with Bill Radke about how she broke the news to her kids, and how she wants them to remember her.
Tim O'Brien, Dad's Maybe Book
Tim O’Brien’s new book also confronts life and death, although not in the way that The Things They Carried tackled his time in Vietnam. It’s called Dad’s Maybe Book.
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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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