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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Bremerton is pursuing growth, and that means demolition. Developers have been buying old buildings and replacing them with apartments and condos. Carolyn… -
Bremerton is a place where people of many income levels live beside one another. It’s been that way for decades. People here were brought together by the… -
Bremerton hopes to be the next bedroom community for Seattle. The mayor is promoting the city, and developers are building places for people to live.Now… -
Seattle is the fastest-growing city in the country, which means bad traffic and increasingly unaffordable housing. Across the water is Bremerton, which… -
Nathan Phillips is an executive of the YMCA in South King County. He says poverty looks different in the suburbs than it does in the city. He took Region… -
Gwen Allen Carston is the owner of a beauty supply shop in Kent. She is also a founder of the Kent Black Action Commission. Region of Boom reporter… -
South King County has long been a destination for working people seeking home ownership.But prices have been rising and not people's ability to pay.When… -
South King County has long been a place where people with modest incomes could find a home.Now more people are coming, driven by high rents in Seattle.… -
The Kent Valley keeps its surprises hidden away and out of sight. Nothing is more well-hidden than the Federal Reserve Bank’s giant vault of money, set… -
IKEA has been in the Seattle area since the 1990s, but until recently its store here has been an anomaly.Instead of being the classic two-story…
