Quarantines and phoning in votes this week
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Erica C Barnett of The C is for Crank, Crosscut reporter David Kroman, and Crosscut audience engagement manager Mohammed Kloub.
This week one person was killed and seven wounded during a shooting in downtown Seattle. What has been the city's response to the shooting?
And King County residents will soon get the chance to vote by phone in a local election. Considering this week's reports that even Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' phone has been hacked, should we be trusting a digital voting system?
Also, a Snohomish County man was diagnosed with a virus that has killed at least 26 people in China, and infected at least 900. What precautionary measures is the US taking?
Additionally, cash welfare assistance for WA state families has plummeted in recent years. What happened?
Finally, the WA state legislature is considering banning voter initiatives in odd year elections. Would it help generate more voter participation?
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Bill Radke
Host
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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Sarah Leibovitz
Supervising Producer, Soundside
Sarah joined KUOW in 2019 as senior producer on The Record. She is now Supervising KUOW’s new noon time show, Soundside. Prior to working at KUOW, Sarah was lead producer at the Seattle podcast production company Larj Media, and a teaching artist with Path with Art.
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