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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KUOW Newsroom
Inmate wants graphic undercover bikini barista videos, city of Everett fights back
A man is requesting the videos under the state’s open records law, but officials say they can’t turn them over because the man is a sex offender in prison.
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KUOW Newsroom
A heroin needle broke off in her neck. It ended up saving her life.
A story about the connection between one patient and her doctor—and how more hospital emergency rooms are becoming entryways to drug treatment.
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Is serving coffee nearly naked free speech?
Bikini Baristas in Everett think so, but the city disagrees. The next step is the U.S. Supreme Court.
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KUOW Newsroom
Biggest Carbon Loser: Staying grounded, cutting carbon, when you have the travel bug
Three contestants. Two months. One planet. A lot of carbon. KUOW’s Biggest Carbon Loser series aims to see how deeply three Seattle-area residents can cut their carbon footprints -- from travel, food, energy, and more -- while navigating their daily lives. What will it take our contestants, and our region, to kick the carbon habit and help fend off climate catastrophe? Many may try, but only one will take the coveted title: The Biggest Carbon Loser.
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KUOW Newsroom
Teen spirit smells like vaping, and other things lawmakers heard in Olympia
The state’s temporary ban expires in a few weeks.
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KUOW Newsroom
Another family joins lawsuit against Seattle Children's over mold contamination
Five month-old, Beth, was infected by Aspergillus months after the hospital said its mold problems were fixed.
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KUOW Newsroom
Scooters are sending more people to the hospital; Seattle still doesn't have them
In the Puget Sound region, you can ride an electric scooter in Tacoma, Everett, Bothell and Redmond, but not in Seattle...yet.
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KUOW Newsroom
Beware online medical insurance you can't use here in Washington state
If you’ve shopped for cheap medical insurance online – watch out. From January 2016 through October 1, 2018, Washington customers bought over 34,000 policies that weren’t authorized in the state.
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KUOW Newsroom
Some foster children have new homes, but bigger crisis in Washington state remains
Over two dozen high needs foster kids in Seattle who were in limbo have now gotten places to stay now. But their plight illustrates key flaws in the state foster care system.
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She's been engaged for six years. Marijuana laws prevent her from getting married
State and federal laws keep weed from being as normal as wine, seven years after recreational legalization.