"When they were good, they were very very good" - a Mariners postmortem
The playoff run that wasn’t.
On today's show:
Mariners Playoff Failure, October 1st 2018
At one point this season, the Seattle Mariners were first ranked and looked poised to make it to the playoffs. But they fell short, and are now going into the eighteenth year of a playoff drought ranked seventh out of fifteen teams. Kate Preusser and Isabelle Minasian both write for Lookout Landing, the Mariners blog on SB Nation. They joined Bill Radke both to praise and to bury the season.
David Kroman on City Light bills, October 1st 2018
Someone else’s billing error could stick you with a thousand dollar bill, says Crosscut’s David Kroman. Like the opposite of finding a $20 in your coat pocket at the start of winter, Seattle City Light has suddenly noticed a $21.5 million shortfall from 20,000 overdue accounts, and the bills are coming due.
Kavanaugh vs Thomas: what's changed? October 1st, 2018
27 years ago, Professor Anita Hill testified in front of the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee regarding sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas. Last week, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testified about her sexual assault allegations toward Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In the intervening three decades, how much has changed? We asked Brooke Coleman, Akua Asare-Konadu, and Moya Bailey.
Kat Holmes on Inclusive Design, October 1st 2018
How did you get to work this morning? Did you drive? Walk? Take transit? What were the obstacles in your way? Some of us might not have even thought about those obstacles, but to many others they can be insurmountable. Google designer Kat Holmes’ new book is called Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design.
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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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