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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Here's what heading back to the office might look like
After roughly a year of working from home, Michael Stephens’ first day back in her office felt like the first day of junior high. “There’s a super nervous energy in terms of what to expect, but also kind of a dread,” Stephens said. She woke early, didn’t drink much coffee because she was already amped up, and chose music that made her feel happy and comforted on her drive in.
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KUOW Newsroom
King County braces for reopening rollbacks despite vaccination progress
Washington state is in a fourth wave of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. For King County and other counties around the state, that is likely to result in a return of tighter restrictions.
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Pandemic is 'substantial, but holding steady' in King County
‘One of our big limiting factors in the state is supply. It's still not meeting demand, and it's actually gone down.’
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The big question about Covid vaccines that this UW study aims to answer
Available Covid-19 vaccines appear highly effective in preventing serious illness and death. What isn’t known for sure is to what degree vaccinated people can still get a mild or asymptomatic case, and how likely they are to then spread that infection to others.
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KUOW Newsroom
Homelessness went up in the U.S. last year, and in Washington state
‘People are very resourceful, but when you've got that many more people at risk, even with lots of assistance, it's going to be difficult to not have an increase in homelessness.’
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KUOW Newsroom
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best Resigns
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best resigned late Monday just hours after the Seattle City Council took its first major action to cut resources from the city’s police department.
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KUOW Newsroom
Mayor aims to shuffle jobs out of Seattle Police Department, shrinking its budget
Transferring a share of duties out of the Seattle Police Department is among a range of changes to polic in the city, proposed by the mayor and police chief Monday. Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best say, however, that they will oppose any reductions proposed by the Seattle City Council that would "compromise SPD’s ability to provide service and safety to the residents and businesses of Seattle."
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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.