Dyer Oxley
Online Editor/Producer
About
Dyer Oxley joined KUOW as a web editor in 2020, handling day-to-day upkeep of the station’s website while providing editorial oversight. He also helms KUOW’s daily newsletter.
A newspaper reporter at heart, Dyer came to KUOW via various Seattle-area media — spanning talk radio, podcasts, and TV — where he covered the emerging opioid epidemic, transportation, local government, and the region's pop culture community (he argues the Northwest is one of the nerdiest places on the planet). You can count on him to keep up on the region’s many comic cons, science, and entertainment news.
Location: Pacific Northwest
Languages: English, Limited Klingon and Vulcan
Podcasts
Stories
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Roosters still cooped up in tiny Washington town after landslides
The birds who have taken sanctuary at Rooster Haus Rescue near Fall City have found themselves trapped recently.
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What are the true costs of going cashless?
Some modern customers can remember the days in line at a grocery store and seeing someone ahead of you take out the dreaded checkbook. That checkbook meant something. I meant more waiting as the person filled it out, signed it, handed it over for it to be inspected. Perhaps their ID had to be documented for extra security. It was a time-sucking pain. But some see using cash as the modern equivalent of this consumer pet peeve – good old green money. It turns out, cash is no longer king, it’s an inconvenience.
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This Seattle woman brews a cup of tea that tastes like the Red Wedding scene from Game of Thrones
Friday Elliott does not like The Beatles. To her, the music feels like sharp, poky grass. “We called it cutting grass as kids because if you run into it, it can give you paper cuts – it feels like that,” she said.
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This Seattle woman blends Star Trek, Game of Thrones, and more with the flavor of tea
When Friday Elliott experiences the Fab Four, she feels a physical sensation and it is not pleasant. This is because she has synesthesia: a blending of the senses.
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Biggest Carbon Loser contestants are making deep cuts
"Systemic change is absolutely necessary. But I just don't think we get that without individually at least being aware and suffering without the cheese a little bit, you know?"
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The art of harassing birds: Why King County officials want to scare eagles with pyrotechnics
Eagles are majestic, mighty, and patriotic. They are also a bit dirty and have a penchant for feasting on garbage.
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Lowering your carbon footprint when living the family life outside Seattle
Bernadette “B” Merikle lives a life akin to many others in the Seattle-area: managing a family outside the city and commuting to a job in the city.
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How does a 32-hour workweek even work? Some Washington lawmakers want to find out
The bill hasn't gotten far in Olympia, but the notion of a 32-hour workweek across Washington state has lawmakers talking this legislative session.
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Did you notice Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best in that Super Bowl ad?
Amid the highly-watched and anticipated spectacles on Sunday (apparently there was also a football game) was a commercial featuring two prominent Seattle figures.
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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.