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
Another family joins lawsuit against Seattle Children's over mold contamination
Five month-old, Beth, was infected by Aspergillus months after the hospital said its mold problems were fixed.
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KUOW Newsroom
Scooters are sending more people to the hospital; Seattle still doesn't have them
In the Puget Sound region, you can ride an electric scooter in Tacoma, Everett, Bothell and Redmond, but not in Seattle...yet.
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KUOW Newsroom
Beware online medical insurance you can't use here in Washington state
If you’ve shopped for cheap medical insurance online – watch out. From January 2016 through October 1, 2018, Washington customers bought over 34,000 policies that weren’t authorized in the state.
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KUOW Newsroom
Some foster children have new homes, but bigger crisis in Washington state remains
Over two dozen high needs foster kids in Seattle who were in limbo have now gotten places to stay now. But their plight illustrates key flaws in the state foster care system.
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She's been engaged for six years. Marijuana laws prevent her from getting married
State and federal laws keep weed from being as normal as wine, seven years after recreational legalization.
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SoundQs
Why is Seattle so geeky? We went on a quest to find out
Seattle is home to some of the biggest game and comics conventions in the world. Board game cafes are scattered across the city. So what is it about Seattle that makes geek culture thrive here?
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Staff say a top doc in Snohomish County bullied them and slept on the job. Officials kept it a secret
People started complaining about Dr. Mark Beatty soon after he was hired as a top health official of Snohomish County.
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KUOW Newsroom
Did your Seattle neighbors vote with Amazon? Check this map
Amazon donated nearly $1.5 million to influence the outcome in recent city council races. Where did Seattleites vote with Amazon?
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KUOW Newsroom
More money needed for Washington's rape kit backlog
Washington state needs more money to investigate and prosecute cold cases of rape, according to a report out Tuesday by an advisory group tracking the state’s backlog of untested rape kits.
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KUOW Newsroom
Good news! Seattle's Union Gospel Mission got enough turkeys to serve Thanksgiving
Seattle's Union Gospel Mission even has enough for leftovers now "which is awesome," the food service director says