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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Seattle could be first U.S. city with safe injection site
Now that a task force to address King County’s heroin epidemic has unveiled its recommendations, the hard work begins. Some of the strategies in the...
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King County to roll out new treatment program for heroin addiction
A task force to address King County’s heroin epidemic will release recommendations this week that could include a safe consumption site for people who...
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West Seattle's Delridge neighborhood dreams of a grocery co-op
West Seattle’s Delridge neighborhood has been struggling for years to get a grocery store in the area. It hasn’t been able to attract major retailers...
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Think your health information is private? Employers can still access it
People’s medical records and personal information are protected under federal law, but there’s a loophole in the law that allows employers to access...
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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...