Stephen Howie
Online Editor/Producer
About
Stephen Howie is an award-winning journalist, nonfiction writer, college professor, and videographer. His first book, "The Bluffton Charge: One Preacher’s Struggle for Civil Rights" won the Mammoth Books Nonfiction Prize.
From 2016 to 2018, Howie collaborated with Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, director of integrative medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center, to research and write "AntiCancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six" (Viking/Penguin).
In addition to books, Howie has written articles, essays, profiles, and investigative journalism for prominent newspapers, literary journals, and magazines. To see and read examples of his work, visit his website at: stephenshowie.com.
Stories
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Elections
Is betting on elections legal? Online prediction markets blur the line in Washington state and beyond
While online markets like Kalshi and PredictIt see a surge of traders on their platforms, they are fighting legal battles with the the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that regulates commodities markets.
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ChatGPT: a useful study buddy, or cheating machine? Educators at the UW are trying to figure that out
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Education
Learning tool or BS machine? How AI is shaking up higher ed
As students and their professors head back to college classrooms and lecture halls this fall, the elephant in the room is ChatGPT.
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Food
Seattle Schools forces parents to pay 'junk fees' to access school lunch
Seattle Public Schools is passing on transaction fees to the families of students starting this year, but a new report from a federal watchdog agency found that electronic processing companies are charging inflated processing fees that add up to $100 million a year.
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Animals
Washington woman attacked by bear says her dogs provoked the incident, then came to her rescue
It was late in the morning and the heat was building outside of Kettle Falls, Washington, when Lynn O’Connor came face to face with a bear.
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Crime
Suspect arrested in carjacking, killing of 80-year-old Seattle woman
Seattle Police announced the arrest Wednesday of a 48-year-old Seattle man in connection with a carjacking Tuesday morning that resulted in the death of an 80-year-old dog walker and the fatal stabbing of her dog.
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Education
Missing children, unmarked graves, unanswered questions: Washington's Native American boarding schools
A new report from the U.S. Department of the Interior documents the atrocities carried out over the course of close to 150 years at U.S. maintained and supported Native American boarding schools.
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Animals
Baby gorilla to move to surrogate mother after maternal bonding fails at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo
In what seems to be a trend, the new baby gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo has not bonded with his mother and is being moved to a surrogate mom at another zoo.
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Animals
Bellingham man fined $1,000 for steering yacht through orca pod
A Bellingham man has been fined $1,000 for driving his 51-foot recreational vessel through a pod of killer whales off the west side of San Juan Island in 2022.
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Sports
Seattle-trained synchronized swimmers take silver at Paris Olympics
Two members of the U.S. artistic swim team that won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics Wednesday got their start in what was formerly known as synchronized swimming with Seattle Synchro.