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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More than a hundred heads of Seattle companies are saying no to Seattle’s head tax proposal. In an open letter to the Seattle City Council, they say it… -
It started with a tax proposal related to the cost of fast growth. Now it’s become a showdown.Amazon said it is halting plans for two downtown Seattle… -
When Highway 99 becomes a tunnel and the Viaduct comes down next year, Seattle starts work on the waterfront of its dreams. There’ll be a bike corridor, a… -
Kim Malcolm talks with reporter Carolyn Adolph about the risks faced by the state of Washington as it considers tolling the Highway 99 Tunnel. -
Drivers will have a free ride on the state Route 99 tunnel in Seattle when it first opens this fall. After a few months, however, expect to pay a toll of… -
Soon, state Route 99 — and the rest of us —will have a new asset: a completed Alaskan Way tunnel.The $3.2 billion tunnel provides an earthquake-safe route… -
The Seattle region has been growing so fast, there are now 400,000 more people here than in 2009, when we agreed to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a… -
This summer the state highway department plans to show Aurora Avenue North some love – in the form of fresh paving.The city says it has added pedestrian… -
Seattle's SR 99 tunnel will have cellular phone service, sprinklers in case of fire and a pedestrian escape route. It has 107 portable potties right now,… -
It was a great awakening – thousands of people, many of them teens and preteens, marched through Seattle on Saturday morning. They joined tens of…
