Stephen Howie
Online Editor/Producer
About
Stephen Howie is an award-winning journalist, nonfiction writer, college professor, and videographer. His first book, "The Bluffton Charge: One Preacher’s Struggle for Civil Rights" won the Mammoth Books Nonfiction Prize.
From 2016 to 2018, Howie collaborated with Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, director of integrative medicine at MD Anderson Cancer Center, to research and write "AntiCancer Living: Transform Your Life and Health with the Mix of Six" (Viking/Penguin).
In addition to books, Howie has written articles, essays, profiles, and investigative journalism for prominent newspapers, literary journals, and magazines. To see and read examples of his work, visit his website at: stephenshowie.com.
Stories
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'Brain drain' begins at UW as researchers consider moving abroad
The University of Washington is facing the prospect that hundreds of millions of dollars in expected federal grants will not come this year. Longstanding research dollars have become tenuous and American scientists are feeling undervalued. For some, a future abroad seems more stable and certain.
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Seattle Police Chief Barnes says he expects to be jailed for resisting Trump's orders
Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes told City Council members Tuesday that he plans to stand up for the First Amendment rights of Seattle residents and expects to be jailed at some point for making that stand.
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Washington scientists say ‘brain drain’ has begun as researchers consider moving abroad amid Trump cuts
With the Trump administration gutting research funding, imperiling science-related jobs, and stalling the grant-approval process for clinical studies and research centers, many U.S. scientists are considering research opportunities abroad.
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Washington cities are decriminalizing magic mushrooms. Could a psychedelic ‘renaissance’ take hold statewide?
Resolutions have decriminalized psilocybin in cities across Western Washington. Studies show psychedelics can help people suffering from trauma, depression, and anxiety. And more people are microdosing for their mental health.
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Immunotherapy for dogs? Seattle-based nonprofit backs promising canine cancer vaccine
So far, the vaccine has been given to 600 dogs at 11 clinics across the U.S., including two in Washington state.
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Seattleites garden naked to mark a holiday that started in their own backyard
World Naked Gardening Day, which this year falls on May 3, started with three Seattleites in a Shoreline living room 20 years ago trying to answer a simple question: How could they get more people in the city comfortable with non-sexualized nudity?
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How do you convince Social Security you’re alive after the agency declares you dead? Seattle couple says it’s far from easy
Pam Johnson of Seattle found out her husband, Leonard or “Ned,” had been declared dead when she got a letter from Bank of America on Feb. 19 offering condolences. The note said more than $5,000 in Social Security benefits had been reclaimed from the couple’s joint account.
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How far could Trump’s NIH funding cuts set medical innovation back? By decades, UW researchers warn
The Trump administration has cut NIH funding levels and paused new and existing grants from the agency, which totalled $35 billion in 2023. That’s left critical studies of various illnesses and drugs that could help treat them on pause. Doctors, researchers, and scientists who have spent years and often decades studying chronic diseases worry the cuts will have long-lasting consequences for public health and medical innovation.
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Seattle City Council approves police use of blast balls, pepper spray, tear gas during protests
The Seattle City Council Tuesday reauthorized the use of blast balls, pepper spray, and pepper by police for crowd-control purposes, despite the objections of people who said they were impacted by those non-lethal weapons during the 2020 racial justice protests.
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Seattle woman has lived her whole life without a smartphone. She recommends it
Patti Gorman is becoming a rarity. According to the Pew Research Center’s latest “Mobile Fact Sheet,” 98% of Americans now own a cellphone of some kind.