Gil Aegerter
About
Gil edits feature pieces and helps guide staff reporters through their stories. He previously served as interim digital director and online managing editor at KUOW. Before that he spent seven years with NBCNews.com, where he was variously a senior editor, editor-producer and features editor. He also worked 25 years as a newspaper editor in Anchorage, Alaska, San Diego, Wilmington, N.C., and Seattle. He also was a freelance researcher for NBC Olympics for the Games in Atlanta; Sydney, Australia; Salt Lake City; Athens; and Torino, Italy. He is a graduate of the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, with a degree in photojournalism.
Stories
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Law & Courts
Federal judge orders Seattle to fix police union contract
Seattle’s civilian Community Police Commission says a federal judge has sent a “strong message” that more changes are needed in the city’s Police Department.
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Politics
Judge: Seattle police fall out of compliance with federal oversight
The Seattle Police Department is out of full compliance with the federal consent on use of force. That’s the ruling by a federal judge Wednesday.
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Arts & Life
Ballard's Edith Macefield lives on ... in a new BBC Radio drama
You may recall Edith Macefield -- the Seattle woman who defied a developer and refused to sell her small house in Ballard.
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Politics
Read a year of Seattle police officers' exit interviews (unredacted)
Officers leaving the Seattle Police Department over the past year complained they were being undercut by a “hyper-aggressive oversight” system and a lack of support from city leaders.
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Health
Deaths of homeless people jump in Seattle area
Deaths among people who were homeless in King County more than doubled in the past five years, according to a new report from the Medical Examiner’s Office.
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'This is going to fall.' Deadly crane collapse kills 4 in Seattle
Bruce Eric Cashmere is a middle-aged Australian, and on Saturday he was in Seattle staring up at a crane.
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'It wasn't standing up straight.' 4 dead in Seattle crane collapse
SEATTLE (AP) — Four people were killed and three wounded when a construction crane collapsed Saturday in downtown Seattle, pinning five cars underneath.
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Environment
We're watching Washington state closely this fire season, says Forest Service chief
Forest Service chief Vicki Christiansen tried to assure Sen. Maria Cantwell that the agency is working to reduce wildfire risk.
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Technology
Boeing cuts down production of 737 Max as crash investigations continue
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg announced on Friday that his company would be cutting its production of the problem-plagued 737 Max planes.
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Former Boeing engineer says crashes raise questions about regulation of 737 Max
A former Boeing flight controls engineer says the second crash of a 737 MAX aircraft raises questions about how the company and regulators responded to the first crash.