Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Reporter
About
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch is a reporter on our SoundQs team and grew up in the same zip code where she now works — with detours to five U.S. states and three foreign countries in between. Her job is to do stories inspired by listener questions. Often, people have questions about HER. Here are some FAQs.
Where’s your name from?
My parents! In a compromise emblematic of their four-decades of marriage, they combined their names (Boiko = Ukrainian and Weyrauch = German) and gifted them to their children. My name is pronounced ANN-uh BOY-koh WHY-rock.
What do you report on?
Listeners, like yourself, send in questions and my team uses our news judgment to decide which ones to cover (that means we value a topic’s timeliness, relevancy, and importance to a general audience). I’ve done stories about listener questions on everything from earthquakes to dog poop.
How can I ask a question?
Fill out the box on kuow.org or email us at soundqs@kuow.org.
Stories
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KUOW Newsroom
Where are people getting Covid? Here are the most common places in King County
Spoiler alert: It’s not just one place
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KUOW Newsroom
Testing slots gobbled up by those wanting negative Covid tests for Thanksgiving
Negative coronavirus tests are the new golden ticket. Get one, lay low for a week, and you can spend Thanksgiving with your relatives indoors.
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KUOW Newsroom
When can we go into the library again? Not soon. Here’s why.
You can go into a big box store and browse for goods, but why can’t you go into a library and browse for books? Here’s what’s taking so long for libraries to open their doors to you.
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KUOW Newsroom
Health officials call for action as the predicted Covid-19 spike materializes
‘It's getting bad. We are breaking records, and not in a good way.’
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KUOW Newsroom
'Finally.' Seattle celebrates news of Biden-Harris victory
After more than three days of holding their breaths, Biden-Harris supporters in Seattle took to the streets this weekend.
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KUOW Newsroom
Awaiting a Covid-19 vaccine, Washington state plans ahead for its distribution
‘The state has an idea that the first doses should go to health care providers, older adults, and people with chronic health conditions.’
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KUOW Newsroom
South King County sees rise in Covid-19 cases as flu season approaches
‘Covid-19 is concentrating in lower-income, lower-resource communities.’
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Puget Sound doctors picket, threaten to strike against MultiCare amid Covid-19 safety concerns
The pandemic has heightened longstanding concerns felt by people working in health care. Now, roughly 100 urgent care doctors and other health care workers are threatening to strike in the Puget Sound region.
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KUOW Newsroom
Free at-home Covid testing is going to rich and white people in King County
Racial equity is a matter of good science, critics say.
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KUOW Newsroom
This small slip of paper stands between Pacific Islanders in Washington and unemployment benefits
It’s a little slip of paper, smaller than a cell phone. And having it can determine whether you get unemployment benefits or not.