Joshua McNichols
"Growing Pains" Reporter
About
Joshua’s “Growing Pains” beat sits at the nexus of housing, transportation, urban planning and the economy. He’s done deep reporting on Amazon. He’s spending the second year of the recession focused on the Puget Sound region’s economic recovery. Public radio is a second career for Joshua, after he spent ten years in the field of architecture. He holds a bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of Washington. He’s also an avid gardener who co-wrote a book on urban gardening during the Great Recession.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English
Professional Affiliations: Society of Professional Journalists, Western Washington Chapter
Podcasts
Stories
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KUOW Newsroom
First essential, then 'devalued': Gig workers don't want to return to ebb and flow of wages
Wages ebb and flow in the gig economy, where workers pick up odd jobs on apps like Doordash and TaskRabbit. Sometimes, the money’s good. But with gig work, there’s no minimum wage. This summer, the Seattle City Council will work on ways to remedy that.
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Your order has been canceled: Delivery apps could need consent to list Seattle restaurants
It could soon be illegal for services like DoorDash and Uber Eats to deliver food unless they have the restaurant owner’s consent. That bill passed the Seattle City Council unanimously Monday, and now awaits the mayor’s signature.
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The Main Street Project
What this Washington town learned from a job fair hardly anybody showed up to
In the picturesque town of Coupeville, Wash., job vacancies usually fill by word of mouth. This year is different. Business owners are wondering: Where are all the workers? So they put on a job fair, hoping to conjure applicants out of thin air.
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The Main Street Project
In tiny Coupeville, tourists have returned. Workers have not.
Now that so many people are vaccinated, tourists are flooding into the Pacific Northwest. That’s true in the tiny town of Coupeville Washington, on Whidbey Island. But there’s a problem. Coupeville can’t hire enough people to staff the restaurants and shops where tourists spend their money. And the tourists have picked up on it.
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KUOW Newsroom
After weekend shooting, grief and uncertainty at a Tacoma homeless camp
The Port of Tacoma – plans to clear a major homeless camp on Thursday, June 10. An outreach team gave residents there notice a couple weeks ago. It offered shelter, but as KUOW found word hasn’t reached all the residents there yet.
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Plan for the worst, or hope for the best? Sound Transit board is torn
Things are heating up at Sound Transit. Board members face difficult decisions about which projects to delay, given rising construction and land costs during the pandemic. But with the direction politics and the economy are going, some say it may be time to slow down the disaster planning before creating panic.
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KUOW Newsroom
Utility bills late? Seattle will give you until 2022 to start paying them back
People and small businesses in Seattle that couldn’t pay their utility bills during the pandemic got some good news today.
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King County Council bans facial recognition software in government agencies
The King County Sheriff's Office cannot use facial recognition technology. Neither can any other county agency. That’s thanks to a new law approved unanimously by the King County Council Tuesday.
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KUOW Newsroom
Bellevue grabs attention of international investors
Downtown Bellevue has attracted the attention of investors around the world. Amazon has promised to put 25,000 employees there by 2025. New light rail service there could carry 50,000 people a day by 2030. All that change has raised Bellevue’s visibility on the global stage. One Bellevue realtor has been fielding a lot of calls recently from China.
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KUOW Newsroom
How car-centric Bellevue is embracing a more pedestrian-friendly future
Bellevue is a city built around cars. But the next chapter in Bellevue’s growth could look very different. During the pandemic, plans have advanced to reorganize Bellevue’s downtown around a pedestrian and bike-friendly route from the shores of Lake Washington – to light rail stations and beyond. That plan is called “The Grand Connection.”