This week in coronavirus and presidential primaries
Bill Radke reviews the week's news with C.R. Douglas of Q13 News, Erica C Barnett of The C is for Crank, and Joni Balter, host of Civic Cocktail.
It's always a momentous Friday when there are two press conferences happening at the same time. Today President Donald Trump announced that he was declaring the coronavirus outbreak a national emergency.
At almost the exact same time Governor Inslee announced that all Washington state schools would be closing for at least six weeks, and that gatherings of over 250 people are now banned statewide. What do these announcements mean for Washington State?
Also, what do these closures mean for our local economy? How is the legislature stepping in to help? And what assistance is available for homeless residents?
And on a non-coronavirus note - remember that primary we had on Tuesday? How did that turn out?
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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
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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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