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Bill Radke is joined by Mayor Durkan for our weekly conversation, and we take your calls on policing and vaccination.

The beginning of the pandemic was chaotic. Remember the empty shelves, the desert of PPE, and the competition for essential resources from state to state? With another big emergency inevitable -- whether a wildfire, earthquake, or pandemic -- we look at what needs to happen to avoid chaos. Plus, how an urban farm is bringing biodiversity and homegrown community health to Beacon Hill. And, we take your calls for our weekly conversation with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan.

We drop top dollars at bake sales and fundraisers to Save the Chinook Salmon or Save the Orcas or Save the Bald Eagles. How about Save the Parasites? Bill Radke spoke with Chelsea Wood, an Assistant Professor with the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, about saving a species you might not think you love.

Have you felt the grass between your toes?--Crept your soles across cool ground or squishy mud puddles? Well, there may be some benefit to that. Seattle author Lyanda Haupt wants you to try it! Bill Radke spoke with author Lyanda Haupt about being cosmically connected to nature and her new book Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit.

India and South Africa have called on the WTO to suspend Intellectual property waivers for Covid vaccines in an effort to speed up vaccine production globally. Major actors in global health and vaccine production, like Bill Gates, say that this would not be helpful due to barriers in trial production, regulatory approval and other processes. Bill Radke spoke with journalist Alexander Zaitchik about his criticism of Gates, global vaccine response, and what more the WTO waiver asks.

*Disclosure note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a financial supporter of KUOW

This week India reported the biggest single day increase in new Covid-19 cases in the world. The scale of this report and the toll of deaths is internationally felt here in Washington. Bill Radke spoke with Meenakshi Rishi professor of economics at Seattle University, about her family and friends in India and how decisions being made in the US will affect the global community.

As Covid-19 case numbers in India reach record high numbers, the Indian diaspora in Washington get updates over text messages from miles away. We hear from Meenakshi Rishi, a Seattle University Professor about her family in India and how the role of the US in next steps. Then, a criticism of Bill Gates, a major global health leader in vaccine production. Also, we learn some of the benefit of a cosmic connection to nature and walking barefoot. And, you've heard about Save the Whales... well how about Save the Parasites?

From our archives we pulled this gem: a conversation Bill Radke taped in 2019 with an

We continue our ongoing series of conversations with each of the candidates in the Seattle mayor’s race, at least those who returned our calls.

We continue our ongoing series of conversations with each of the candidates in the Seattle mayor’s race, at least those who returned our calls.