Throwing Amazon 2.4 billion bones
New York gave Amazon a tax credit of almost $50K per employee it brings to town. Is it worth it? You could ask the same thing about whale watching (so we did). In addition to that, a look at dancer Donald Byrd’s legacy, a question about what happened with the Boeing 737 MAX crash, and T-Mobile’s name is coming to a baseball field near you.
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Sweetening the pot for Amazon
Papers were still hot from the presses when protesters began to rail against Amazon’s coming relocation to New York City. One thing at issue is the massive incentives offered to the company, to the tune of $2.4B from all three cities it’s coming to. We asked Joseph Parilla of the Brooking Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program if it’s worth it.
Whale watching: yea or nay?
Should you stop whale watching? Along with “should you stop eating chinook salmon,” “should you stop eating farmed salmon,” and “when is the killer whale taskforce going to release any findings,” this is a big question in the quest to save our storied blackfish. KUOW’s environment reporter John Ryan has been following the orca story, and as chief scientist for the Orca Conservancy, David Bain has studied it as well.
Donald Byrd w/Marcie Sillman
Seattle-based choreographer Donald Byrd has used his art to create beauty and confront racism in equal measure, and sometimes that rubs people the wrong way. But, he told KUOW’s arts and reporter Marcie Sillman, he has no plans to back off anytime soon.
Boeing 737 MAX crash
Last month, a plane took off from Jakarta, Indonesia. Less than fifteen minutes later, it had crashed into the sea. It was a brand new Boeing 737 MAX, victim of a malfunctioning new sensor that would have made the plane feel completely different to the pilots – as though it was fighting with a mind of its own to dive, says former pilot Björn Ferhm of Leeham News Company.
Safeco, meet T-Mobile
Safeco Field is out; T-Mobile Field is in. Is a magenta color scheme soon to follow? What a time to be alive.
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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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