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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The apartment complex at Aurora and North 109th Street in Seattle was built on the cheap.That’s because Daniel Stoner, the developer, outsourced the… -
City officials have designated some parts of the aging Aurora Avenue as “urban villages” (dense, walkable neighborhoods near transit). But Aurora has a… -
Aurora Avenue North is a place where you can buy a car, sell a car or get fancy rims for your tires. If your vehicle has ever been towed in north Seattle,… -
Before there was I-5, there was Highway 99. Stitched together from existing roads in the early days of car travel, the roadway ran from Canada to San… -
Commuters — in 43,000 cars every weekday — see Aurora Avenue as a river. Pedestrians trying to cross from one side to the other see it as a wall. In… -
What does Aurora mean to you? Al Jawann Johnson answered that question with a spontaneous poem:"Aurora is to me the beast in the night. It is the beauty… -
We recently hosted a debate to answer a simple question: Is Amazon good for Seattle?And the answer is: We don’t really know for certain. But the debate… -
Residents of north Seattle want affordable housing, but are skeptical of the city’s plan to get that housing built by encouraging more development. That… -
The Seattle area needs more housing.There’s not enough construction workers to build all the houses we need.Meanwhile, ex-prisoners have a hard time… -
Construction crews are busy relocating utilities for the new trolley line through downtown Seattle. The new line will integrate the shorter lines at…
