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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Government
Russian asylum seeker dies after suicide attempt. He was to be expelled this month
A Russian asylum seeker died after a suicide attempt at the detention center in Tacoma, according to federal officials.
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Seattle Archdiocese pays $7 million in priest sex abuse cases
Six men say that former priests in the Seattle Archdiocese abused them when they were children. The men say the archdiocese knew or should have known about the danger.
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Government
Sen. Joe Fain concedes to Democratic challenger amid rape accusation
Washington State Senator Joe Fain conceded to his opponent, Mona Das, Friday night.
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Environment
It's not a stink bug. So what the heck is this thing?
People have generically called them stink bugs. But don't you make the same mistake.
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Education
Charter schools are legal, can keep getting state funding, WA Supreme Court rules
The Washington Supreme Court has upheld most of the state law that funds charter schools.
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Government
Rossi and Schrier mix it up with U.S. House seat at stake
Republican Dino Rossi and Democrat Kim Schrier square off over health care insurance, trade tariffs, gun control and border policy in a wide-ranging debate.
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Government
Seattle gets federal grant — despite Trump threat
Seattle and King County have won a round against the Trump administration over their immigration sanctuary policies.
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Education
Homelessness is having huge effect on students' performance, report says
Nearly 41,000 students are homeless in Washington state -- more than double the number from 10 years ago, according to a new report.
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Technology
Driverless semi-trucks on I-5?
Interstate 5 through Washington and Oregon is the best place in the U.S. for so-called driverless trucks to start running. That's according to a new report by the Kirkland-based traffic data company Inrix.
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Government
Technology that might have prevented Amtrak crash gets a big test