Ruby de Luna
Reporter
About
Ruby de Luna is a reporter with a focus on food and how it intersects with health, communities, and culture. She has also reported on health care and immigrant communities.
Ruby is a transplant from Taipei, Taiwan. She holds a B.A. in communication from Seattle Pacific University. She is proud to be one of the few old-schoolers who can edit tape with a razor blade.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, Conversational Mandarin, Tagalog
Pronouns: she/her
Professional Affiliations: Member, AAJA
Stories
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Arts & Life
These Seattle area brewers want to change beer's bro image
Beer brewing has a reputation of being for bros with beards. But long ago, beer making was women’s work. Now, a growing number of Seattle area women are reclaiming that heritage.
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Business
The FTC sued to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger. Now what?
The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general for eight states and the District of Columbia are suing in an attempt to stop the merger of Kroger and Albertsons, the country's two largest grocery store companies. What comes next?
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Business
Grocery worker protections move forward in Washington in preparation for merger disruptions
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Arts & Life
Can you find a good bagel in Seattle? A New Yorker does a taste test
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Business
Washington grocery workers hope for protections if Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through
Grocery workers concerned about the Kroger-Albertsons merger’s impact on their jobs, are hoping a bill in Olympia will offer some protection.
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Arts & Life
Beloved produce market in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood closes after fire. ‘We will be back’
Rising Sun Produce, on the corner of 15th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 65th Street, is boarded up. The smell of smoke and soot linger. Burnt boxes and other cardboard debris line the loading area.
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Race & Identity
Food, events, and the wider meaning of this Lunar New Year
There are state and local efforts to make Lunar New Year a public holiday.
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Politics
Friday Headlines
Micro-apartments move forward in Olympia, gray wolves could lose their endangered tag, and Seattle Children's pays up over mold exposures. It’s our daily roundup of today’s top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna.
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Arts & Life
How to make dumplings: Easy folding techniques from a Seattle chef
Chef Sara Upshaw says making dumplings, or "mandu" as they are called in Korea, is part of her family tradition.
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Politics
Thursday Headlines
U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers won't seek re-election, bill would require clergy members to report child abuse, and car insurance costs to soar in WA. It’s our daily roundup of today’s top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Ruby de Luna