The Record: Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Today the mayor made an announcement: Seattle will expand the number of shelter beds available to the homeless. KUOW's Kate Walters was briefed on this, and she joined Bill Radke in studio to explain.
After a contentious shortlist for Seattle Police Chief - one that excludes current interim chief Carmen Best - critics have declared that mayor Jenny Durkan's honeymoon is over. Seattle Times reporter Steve Miletich explained what the committee wanted in a chief, and what we can expect from the finalists.
The internet has changed business and media and dating... and maybe also the way we use language. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary's online presence has been particularly deft at keeping up with those shifts, and editor-at-large Peter Sokolowski explains why.
Jeff Bezos wants to go to space - to infinity and beyond, as it were. Aerospace and science editor of Geekwire Alan Boyle interviewed Bezos about his plans for intergalactic colonization.
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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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