Joshua McNichols
Reporter
About
As KUOW's Growth and Development reporter and co-host of KUOW's Booming podcast, Joshua's "growing pains" beat sits at the nexus of housing, transportation, urban planning, government and the economy. His favorite stories also include themes of history, technology, and climate change.
Joshua holds a B.A. in Architecture from the University of Washington. Public Radio is his second career; architecture was his first. He is proud of the many odd jobs he's held in his life, such as salmon fisher, author, bike courier, and bed-and-breakfast cook.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Pronouns: he/him
Professional Affiliations: The Society of Professional Journalists, Western Washington Chapter
Podcasts
Stories
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Why 8th-Graders In Washington Are Already Thinking About College
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Tuesday that expands the College Bound Scholarship program. The program places students from low...
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Why NASA Called The Northwest Indian College Space Center
It started out as a joke. The students at Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Reservation near Bellingham were launching little rockets made from...
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What Time Should Seattle Schools Start? District Wants Your Opinion
What time should the school day begin? That’s the question an online survey is asking Seattle parents through this weekend. To get a sense of what’s at...
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Seattle Goes Decidedly Low-Tech In Setting Parking Rates
In a city known for tech wizards, you might expect parking costs to depend on huge data sets collected electronically in real time. You’d be wrong....
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95 Percent Of Garfield High School Juniors Ditch State Testing
Eleventh graders in Washington state are saying heck no to the Smarter Balanced Assessment. At Garfield High School in Seattle’s Central Area, 95...
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Seattle Police Attempt To Drive Drug Dealers Out Of Downtown
There’s an open air drug market between Westlake Center and the Pike Place Market. People who live and work downtown are getting tired of dealing with...
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Is Seattle Ready For Rent Control? Kshama Sawant Thinks So
Seattle’s rents are rising fast – San Francisco, San Jose and Denver are the only cities outpacing us, according to real estate research firm Reis....
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Why This Rickety Building Lost The Fight Against Rising Rents
On the top floor of the Summit Inn, a run-down building on Capitol Hill where artists live, Philomel Swango, 64, shows off bolts of colorful cloth and...
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Some See Dangerous Giant in Shell Oil Rig, Others See Jobs
It was the kind of David-and-Goliath moment that Greenpeace was looking for: Kayakers paddling out in their tiny craft to meet a mammoth oil drilling...
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Shell Oil Arctic Drilling Rig Arrives Off Port Angeles
A Shell Oil drilling rig at the center of environmental protests about oil exploration in the Arctic arrived off Port Angeles at dawn Friday on a trip...