Isolde Raftery
Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Managing Editor at KUOW since 2024. Previously at KUOW, she was online managing editor, investigations team editor, and web editor.
She has reported for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Isolde attended James A. Garfield High School in Seattle and later graduated from Barnard College in New York City. She received a Master's degree in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Metro To Cut 74 Bus Routes If State Doesn’t Come Through
In a dramatic announcement on Thursday, Metro announced its plans to cut 74 bus routes by mid-2014 in response to the state's inability to pass a...
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Photos Down Under: A Light Beams From Puget Sound
Puget Sound, a spidery inlet of the Pacific Ocean, has often been derided as murky, toxic and so, so cold. But Ann Dornfeld, KUOW’s education reporter,...
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Councilmembers Will Represent Districts – But Which One Is Yours?
Seattle prides itself on being a city of neighborhoods – small cities wedged between two bodies of water – but its city councilmembers are elected by the
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Effort To Label GMO Foods Failing In Washington State
Washington state likely won’t be labeling its food containing GMO products, after all. With most of the votes counted on Tuesday night, 55 percent said...
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So Far, SeaTac Voters Say Yes To $15 Minimum Wage
The votes haven’t all been counted, but it appears the City of SeaTac could be on its way to imposing a $15 minimum wage for workers whose jobs are tied...
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McGinn Ousted: Ed Murray Leads With 56 Percent
State Sen. Ed Murray appeared to be winning the Seattle mayoral race on Tuesday night, with 56 percent of the votes. Mayor Mike McGinn trailed with 43...
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Why Socialist Kshama Sawant's Campaign Matters, Win Or Lose
Kshama Sawant didn’t have to identify as a socialist. Seattle City Council races are nonpartisan, after all, and her views aren’t particularly...
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Found: Stephen Ambrose's Hilarious Letter To KUOW's Dave Beck
As some of you may know, Dave Beck, longtime KUOW jack-of-all-trades, has moved across town to Classical KING FM. We searched for his award-winning
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Top Donors Fighting GMO Labeling Revealed: Pepsi, Coke, Nestlé
Attorney General Bob Ferguson has gotten his wish: A list of donors to a political action committee created to fight Initiative 522, which, if passed,
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Violent Sex Offender Flees Canada, But Seattle Police Can't Arrest Him
Update: Michael Sean Stanley has registered as a sex offender in Washington state. A man described by Seattle police as a “sexually violent predator” has