Carolyn Adolph
ReporterYear started with KUOW: 2008
Carolyn covers Seattle’s growth and the challenges people have in meeting the regional economy’s shifting demands. She came to KUOW after careers at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Montreal Gazette and the Toronto Star. She is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She studied Economics at the University of California, Davis, and the Cultural Impact of Technological Change at the University of Washington.
Latest Award: Runner Up, SPJ Investigative Audio Reporting with John Ryan, 2016.
Email cadolph@kuow.org
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Housing prices in metropolitan Seattle are rising by more than $5 an hour, every hour of every day, according to the Puget Sound Regional Council.Prices… -
Move over, Interstate 5: The section of I-405 from Renton to Bellevue is now the state's most congested highway.“It is so congested even our HOV lane does… -
Amazon has officially charged into the health sector. This week, the e-commerce giant purchased an online pharmacy called PillPack and sent shockwaves… -
Washington state’s population grew by 117,000 people this year from last, to 7.4 million people. That’s like gaining a city the size of Everett.But the… -
A first-of-its kind conference gets underway in Seattle this morning, its organizers say. Hundreds of people are getting together to talk about… -
If you want to do business on the public’s streets, it's going to be hard to keep your data private.That’s the message from Washington’s Supreme Court to… -
Now that the construction boom that made the city of Seattle rich is starting to decline—and putting newfound pressure on homelessness spending—it’s time… -
The bloom is off the boom.That’s the message Ben Noble, director of the city’s budget office, gave Seattle City Council’s finance committee on April 30,… -
Bill Radke talks about what the compromise head tax means for Seattle with KUOW reporter Carolyn Adolph. We also talk to Todd Biesold, owner and CFO of… -
Is Seattle the sort of place where, if you can’t afford it, there’s no room for you?This was the question that Jacob Vigdor, a professor of public policy…
