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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Snow grounds hundreds of Sea-Tac flights preemptively
Airlines are cancelling hundreds of flights ahead of time to thin the schedule and leave time for de-icing.
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More than 60,000 workers shut down Seattle a century ago
If you were in Seattle in 1919 today, something might have seemed strange. The streetcars weren’t running, and the newspaper boys were nowhere around.
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SoundQs
The panhandlers dilemma: A priest, a rabbi and an advocate weigh in
To give or not to give? We tackle that dilemma with advice from a priest, a rabbi and an advocate for the homeless.
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19-year-old student dies after slipping on University of Washington campus
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10 tips for recycling with the confidence of a Seattleite sans umbrella
You ask, we find answers. Here are some experts' answers to your questions about recycling.
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More overdose deaths are likely coming nationwide. What about in Washington state?
As death rates have soared across the country, in Washington state the overall numbers of people killed by opioids have hovered around 700 people a year for a decade.
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Washington Republican Congress members forgo pay during shutdown
Members of Congress are still getting paid because appropriations for their pay are permanently mandated by law. Still, some of them are making the political choice to reject or donate their salaries.
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SoundQs
Seattle is really good at recycling. Maybe a little too good
Seattle's recycling rules haven't changed. They are the same today as they have been for years, but we don't follow them.
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SoundQs
Seattle has an over-recycling problem
We take our recycling pretty seriously here in the Pacific Northwest. But are we doing it right? This episode of SoundQs will make you a better recycler.
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SoundQs
A mysterious dot on an old map, and a Washington man’s quest to find it