Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Reporter
About
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is a reporter on our SoundQs team and grew up in the same zip code where she now works — with detours to five U.S. states and three foreign countries in between. Her job is to do stories inspired by listener questions. Often, people have questions about HER. Here are some FAQs.
Where’s your name from?
My parents! In a compromise emblematic of their four-decades of marriage, they combined their names (Boiko = Ukrainian and Weyrauch = German) and gifted them to their children. My name is pronounced ANN-uh BOY-koh WHY-rock.
What do you report on?
Listeners, like yourself, send in questions and my team uses our news judgment to decide which ones to cover (that means we value a topic’s timeliness, relevancy, and importance to a general audience). I’ve done stories about listener questions on everything from earthquakes to dog poop.
How can I ask a question?
Fill out the box on kuow.org or email us at soundqs@kuow.org.
Stories
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SoundQs
Why is Seattle so geeky? We went on a quest to find out
Seattle is home to some of the biggest game and comics conventions in the world. Board game cafes are scattered across the city. So what is it about Seattle that makes geek culture thrive here?
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Staff say a top doc in Snohomish County bullied them and slept on the job. Officials kept it a secret
People started complaining about Dr. Mark Beatty soon after he was hired as a top health official of Snohomish County.
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KUOW Newsroom
Did your Seattle neighbors vote with Amazon? Check this map
Amazon donated nearly $1.5 million to influence the outcome in recent city council races. Where did Seattleites vote with Amazon?
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KUOW Newsroom
More money needed for Washington's rape kit backlog
Washington state needs more money to investigate and prosecute cold cases of rape, according to a report out Tuesday by an advisory group tracking the state’s backlog of untested rape kits.
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KUOW Newsroom
Good news! Seattle's Union Gospel Mission got enough turkeys to serve Thanksgiving
Seattle's Union Gospel Mission even has enough for leftovers now "which is awesome," the food service director says
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KUOW Newsroom
Washington's foster kids are spending more nights in hotels and offices this year
Social workers have used that last-resort option 335 more times so far this year than the same period last year.
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KUOW Newsroom
Swedish healthcare workers vote to strike for better pay and working conditions
The union that represents many health care workers, SEIU, says its biggest concerns around under-staffing are being ignored. Swedish says it wants workers to come to the table and talk.
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KUOW Newsroom
Takeover or misunderstanding? The scuffle over Lake Union
A petition to "Save Lake Union" has gathered over 1,500 signatures. Kenmore Air says community concerns are a misunderstanding
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KUOW Newsroom
DNA samples from an estimated 30,000 convicted felons missing in Washington state
In the FBI’s database of convicted criminals, there should be more DNA samples from Washington state – potentially tens of thousands of them.
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KUOW Newsroom
She was raped 15 years ago. Her rape kit was finally tested and turned up a match
15 year-old J.D. was so embarrassed what had happened, she didn’t tell her father on the car ride home that she had just been raped.