Kate Walters
Reporter
About
Kate is a reporter at KUOW covering the homelessness crisis and related issues.
Originally from Australia, Kate studied journalism at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before coming to work in public radio.
Kate began her career as a reporter with WXXI Public Radio in Rochester, NY, where she worked as part of a Local Journalism Center called the Innovation Trail.
At KUOW, she started as a producer on The Record before joining the news desk.
Stories
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Seattle City Council passes tax on big businesses
The Seattle City Council has passed a new tax on big businesses. The move comes just two years after the council passed, and then quickly repealed, a controversial ‘head tax’ on large companies. The new tax, which differs from the previous attempt, would be levied on businesses with an annual payroll of $7 million per year or more. It would target payroll for highly paid employees making $150,000 per year and up.
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KUOW Newsroom
More families appear to be homeless in Seattle than before, and other take-aways from this report
Top causes: job loss, alcohol and drug use, mental health issues
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle City Council advances new tax on large businesses
Seattle is one step closer to implementing a tax on large businesses. City council members passed legislation out of the budget committee on Wednesday that would tax companies with a yearly payroll of $7 million or more.
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle police force protesters out of CHOP zone, make arrests
Seattle police moved in early Wednesday morning to disperse protesters in the area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
Seattle Mayor Durkan calls for City Council to investigate Sawant
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan wants the City Council to investigate Councilmember Kshama Sawant over her use of city resources and her participation in protests against police brutality, which led to brief occupation of City Hall and disclosure of the mayor’s home address.
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KUOW Newsroom
UW plans to welcome some students back to campus in the fall
A letter sent by university president Anna Mari Cauce on Monday pointed to a hybrid approach to resuming classes starting September 30. Some courses will remain online and some will be available in person.
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Seattle Protests for Civil Rights
Businesses and residents bring lawsuit against Seattle over CHOP
A group of Capitol Hill business owners and residents have filed a lawsuit against the City of Seattle over its handling the area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or CHOP.
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KUOW Newsroom
Concerns raised as UW psych unit slated for permanent closure
Staff and some former patients are raising concerns over the closure of a small inpatient psychiatric unit in Seattle known as Seven North. University of Washington Medicine temporarily closed the unit at their Montlake campus in May and furloughed staff as part of their bid to address a $500 million shortfall due to costs and revenue losses associated with the pandemic. They announced this month that the closure would be permanent, with lay-offs of 23 staff members effective in mid-July. UW Medicine is working to find employment opportunities within their system for those staff members, according to a statement.
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Seattle City Council votes to repeal 2 loitering laws
The Seattle city council voted unanimously Monday to repeal two laws over concerns about disproportionate impacts on Black and Indigenous people and other People of Color. The council voted to remove the crime of drug traffic loitering and prostitution loitering from the city's criminal code.
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KUOW Newsroom
King County aims for Phase 2 of reopening. What does that mean?
King County could be further easing pandemic restrictions in just a few days.