Joshua McNichols
ReporterYear started with KUOW: 2007
Joshua has been the "growing pains" reporter since 2015, documenting the region's growth and change.
Joshua “took the long way” to radio, working in architecture firms for over a decade before pursuing his passion for public radio in 2007.
By "long way," he means he's also been a writer, bicycle courier, commercial fisherman, bed-and-breakfast cook, carpenter, landscaper and stained glass salesman. He’s detailed animal enclosures to prevent jaguars from escaping the Miami Zoo. Once, while managing a construction site in Athens, Greece, he was given a noogie by an Albanian civil war refugee in his employ. “You do not tell those guys how to place stucco,” he said.
All of which has no doubt made him the story-teller he is today.
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For years, Tukwila’s stretch of highway 99 was known for its crime: drug sales, prostitution, burglaries and violence. Then one morning in 2013, hundreds… -
Everything had to work perfectly.More than 400 law enforcement were ready. Moving trucks were rented, driven into a church parking lot. The operation… -
It started with street trees. Tukwila wanted to plant some along state Route 99 to slow down traffic and beautify the area.But the state said no. Trees,… -
Tukwila, a small city of about 20,000 people, punches above its weight.That's partly because it's willing to throw elbows around, seizing property by any… -
Business owners and community members marched to Tukwila City Hall last Thursday to deliver a letter protesting a proposed police station and courthouse… -
Starbucks will close 8,000 stores late next month so employees can attend an afternoon-long training about racial bias. That follows an incident in… -
The most congested bus route in King County runs down Aurora. It’s called the RapidRide E Line. The crowding on those buses brings all kinds of people… -
Originally, the Nguyens were fish breeders, supplying the region’s pet stores.Aurora Avenue North was good for that: Highways are where you want to be if… -
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan proposed a new way to reduce congestion and pay for transit this week by tolling cars coming into the city. It’s called… -
David Wickingstad is homeless on Aurora. He gives us a personal walking tour of the spaces that help him survive along this neglected highway.See that…
