Joshua McNichols

6 days ago | m.kuow.org | Joshua McNichols

An artist's rendering of the Artemis ef-24 150-passenger electric hydrofoil ferry Artemis Officials from King County Metro's Marine Division took a test ride in an all-electric water vessel on Tuesday. It was part of the Irish company Artemis Technologies' hype tour for a high-tech boat, which will be built on the banks of the Duwamish River as it enters Puget Sound, thanks to a new agreement with the Seattle shipyard Delta Marine.

6 days ago | kuow.org | Joshua McNichols

An artist's rendering of the Artemis ef-24 150-passenger electric hydrofoil ferry Artemis Officials from King County Metro's Marine Division took a test ride in an all-electric water vessel on Tuesday. It was part of the Irish company Artemis Technologies' hype tour for a high-tech boat, which will be built on the banks of the Duwamish River as it enters Puget Sound, thanks to a new agreement with the Seattle shipyard Delta Marine.

1 week ago | kuow.org | Joshua McNichols

Yoon Song at K-Street Korean Barbecue in Downtown Redmond, steps away from the new light rail station KUOW Photo/Joshua McNichols A new light rail station opens up in Downtown Redmond this Saturday. This station, along with another at Marymoor Park, brings the number of Eastside stations to ten. Yoon Song works at K-Street Barbecue just a few steps from the Downtown Redmond station. She also lives nearby. Almost all the things she needs are within walking distance. There’s even an H-Mart.

2 weeks ago | kuow.org | Joshua McNichols

Today, in Seattle's Central District neighborhood, the number of Black homeowners has reached a historic low. And across Seattle, less than half as many Black households own homes as white families. So what would it take to turn that around? Washington state’s Covenant Homeownership Program aims to try. In this country, for better or worse, the way people build wealth is by owning real estate. But home ownership is not available to a lot of people.

2 weeks ago | m.kuow.org | Joshua McNichols |Lucy Soucek |Alec Cowan |Carol Smith

In Seattle's Central District, the number of Black homeowners has reached a historic low. And across Seattle, less than half as many Black households own homes as white families. But there's a new law that could help turn that around. The law expands the Covenant Home Ownership program, a state program that helps first-time Black and other marginalized home buyers cover their down payments and closing costs.