What are you reading right now?
After a whole year of being closed to the public, Seattle Public Libraries is starting to re-open its branches. Bill Radke and interim chief librarian Tom Fay talk to listeners about what books they've reading, and what the library's summer plans are. Plus, what's happening with hotel shelters and a Q&A with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.
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Book recommendations and reopening information with the Seattle Public Library
After a whole year of being closed to the public, Seattle Public Libraries is starting to re-open its branches. Bill Radke and interim chief librarian Tom Fay talk to listeners about what books they've reading, and what the library's summer plans are.
What's happening with Seattle hotel shelters?
Seattle is using two hotels as temporary shelters under the theory that a room of your own helps you rest and gather yourself and get into permanent housing. But Publicola's Erica Barnett says that successful outcome doesn't appear to be happening much.
Mayor Jenny Durkan, June 3 2021
Mayor Durkan sits down with Bill Radke to answer question and take listener calls.
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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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