Ruby de Luna
Reporter
About
Ruby de Luna is a reporter with a focus on food and how it intersects with health, communities, and culture. She has also reported on health care and immigrant communities.
Ruby is a transplant from Taipei, Taiwan. She holds a B.A. in communication from Seattle Pacific University. She is proud to be one of the few old-schoolers who can edit tape with a razor blade.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, Conversational Mandarin, Tagalog
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Member, AAJA
Stories
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Looking for work after 60
Eight years have passed since the Great Recession. It almost seems like a distant event. But older workers haven’t completely recovered despite signs of...
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New drug take-back program launched in Washington to tackle opioid addiction
The state hospital association has teamed up with a toxicology company to address one gateway to opioid addiction. People prescribed pain medication...
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Washington sues Comcast for deceiving customers about repair fees, credit checks
On Monday Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a $100 million lawsuit against Comcast for deceiving customers with its repair fees and...
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Looking for a woman named Shelly and her six kittens
Deputy Bud McCurry sets up his laptop in the patrol car. He's heading into a wooded area in South Everett where homeless heroin users have been camping...
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New Seattle doctors learn to prescribe food as medicine
You don’t expect to see doctors in a kitchen. Normally you’d find newly minted doctors at Swedish Cherry Hill hospital seeing patients. Instead, a group...
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Heroin overdose death rates rising faster in Snohomish than King, Pierce counties
Heroin addiction has no boundaries. Deaths from overdoses have gone up across Washington state, but in Snohomish County, the rates have gone up more...
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Seattle's rising rents are forcing out baby boomers
The housing market is hot, and older Seattleites are feeling the squeeze.
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Seattle launches new clinic on wheels for homeless
Seattle is bringing health care to homeless people by way of a medical van. The van is actually a 39-foot RV that’s been customized into a compact...
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We ate bugs at Seattle restaurants. This one tasted like apple Jolly Rancher
You can order water bugs the size of a Post-It note at Nue, a trendy restaurant on Capitol Hill. They’re full-bodied, winged, and you have to suck the meat from their abdomens.
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If these walls could talk, the stories they would tell
If this house could talk, what stories would it tell?