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
Syphilis infections on the rise in Seattle area
This is a story about sex and one type of bacteria that loves it: Treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis.
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KUOW Newsroom
A cautionary tale of teen fentanyl abuse prompts advice for parents and friends
'They were telling her, essentially, to hold the line, to cut off their son, and she didn't.'
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KUOW Newsroom
A Seattle teen quit smoking fentanyl. Every morning he thanks God he’s alive
“I spent a lot of time thinking that I was the cool guy,” he says, sitting on his parents’ couch in northwest Seattle. “But now I go get a shot in my butt every month and I go to AA, you know what I mean? It's humbling.”
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattleites reported hundreds of bias incidents and hate crimes last year. A small fraction made it to court.
Let’s start at the beginning of a case.
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KUOW Newsroom
Fentanyl is a great drug for cartels. But those blue pills are killing King County
Fentanyl pills are often called blues, and they’re on sale everywhere. It’s just gotten so easy to make and smuggle fentanyl that it’s flooding the illegal drug market in this area – and killing people – more than ever.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle settles for 3.5 M in lawsuit over the 2017 police killing of Charleena Lyles
The family of Charleena Lyles has settled with the City of Seattle and police officers Jason M. Anderson and Steven A. McNew in a civil lawsuit over her death on June 18, 2017. The city will pay $3.5 million in exchange for dismissal of the case.
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KUOW Newsroom
Dance Church is NOT church. But it inspires religious feelings
From the outside looking in, Dance Church looks like a mashup of a fitness class and living-room dance party. On the inside, it inspires spiritual feelings for some participants.
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Reflections on the meaning of life from a dead salmon
I crouched by the banks of the Cedar River. The water was still and clear. The atmosphere was peaceful. And the air smelled like rotting flesh.
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KUOW Newsroom
Hey Seattleites, the state has your $273 million. Here’s how to claim it. (Not a scam, we swear)
TL;DR Go to Claimyourcash.org and plug in your name.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle's murals by henry bring joy, but it took decades to get there
Ryan Henry Ward passed through multiple episodes of psychosis, homelessness, drug addiction, and relapse on his way to become the highly sought-after muralist he is now.