Stephen Howie
Online Editor/Producer
About
Stephen Howie is an award-winning journalist, nonfiction writer, college professor, and videographer. His first book, "The Bluffton Charge: One Preacher’s Struggle for Civil Rights" won the Mammoth Books Nonfiction Prize.
From 2016 to 2018, Howie collaborated with Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, director of integrative medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center, to research and write "AntiCancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six" (Viking/Penguin).
In addition to books, Howie has written articles, essays, profiles, and investigative journalism for prominent newspapers, literary journals, and magazines. To see and read examples of his work, visit his website at: stephenshowie.com.
Stories
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Despite safety measures, promises, and plans, more people are dying on Washington roadways
The city of Seattle released its three-year plan to lower traffic fatalities Thursday in the wake of a statewide report that says the number of people killed on Washington roads hit a 33-year high.
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Yes, hiking. No, traffic. Trailhead Direct offers car-free travel from Seattle to the mountains
This year, Trailhead Direct features one route to Mount Si and the return of a second route, after a two-year absence, to the Issaquah Alps.
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Environment
Red wolf raised at Washington state sanctuary joins wild pack, sires 8 pups
An endangered American red wolf born and raised in a Washington state sanctuary and released into the wild earlier this year in North Carolina has fathered a litter of eight pups, doubling the size of his adopted pack.
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Arts & Life
The mysterious story of a Seattle houseboat declared the Sovereign Nation of Tui Tui
What's the story behind the Seattle houseboat that is also a sovereign nation? KUOW Wonders readers wanted to know.
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Health
10 years after Oso landslide, a new memorial is a gathering place for remembrance
It’s been 10 years since a massive landslide near the small village of Oso in Snohomish County killed 43 people, wiped out an entire neighborhood, and buried State Route 530 in mud. It was the deadliest landslide in U.S. history.
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Arts & Life
'Breathtaking' and 'transformational.' Seattle University receives record $300 million art donation
Seattle University has received the largest art donation ever given to a university. So large, in fact, the Jesuit school will have to build a new museum to house the $300 million collection.
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Libraries in Western Washington confront the challenges of being open to all
Libraries are taking on a new role as social service providers, hiring mental health professionals and in some cases building an entire in-house social services team to help people in crisis who come to the library because they have nowhere else to go.
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Business
Orcas Island's historic Rosario Resort gets mystery new owner, closes for renovations
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Environment
Does playing soccer on artificial turf increase cancer risk, especially in kids?
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Arts & Life
'The bright shining sun of Seattle music,' why everyone loved Susie Tennant
People in the Seattle music scene don’t agree on much, but everyone who met former promoter Susie Tennant absolutely loved her. Tennant died last week after a long illness.