News The Washington mental health lifeline made for and by Native people The Native and Strong Lifeline provides connection and culturally specific care to callers in crisis. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Indian Country Today and Underscore News / June 19, 2023
Indigenous Affairs Yakama Nation’s new public safety campus gives justice room to grow The tribal court system, which had occupied a cluster of trailers since the ’50s, plans to add services like a mental health or a veterans court. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Underscore News and ICT / January 9, 2024
Equity Snoqualmie Tribe starts land protection sales tax at Salish Lodge The 2% tax will preserve ancestral sites such as Snoqualmie Falls, and could be a model for other Indigenous nations. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Underscore/ICT / July 17, 2023
Equity Can the Ethiopian community hang on in Seattle? Habtamu Abdi, civilian liaison between the Seattle Police Department and the East African community at the Ethiopian Community Center in Rainier Valley. (Photos by Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut) by Chetanya Robinson / August 16, 2017
Equity At UW, students get lessons on homelessness Setting up Tent City 3 at the UW campus. It's on the south part of the campus near a fisheries building and not far from the Ship Canal. by Chetanya Robinson / January 16, 2017
Culture A critical exhibit in this time of Trump American Citizens – Roger Shimomura, 2015, lithograph, courtesy of the artist by Chetanya Robinson / March 30, 2017
Opinion Lessons from a WA politician who got things done in Congress Former Congressman Al Swift had the skills for working together that we need today. by John Arthur Wilson / May 7, 2018
Opinion Trump's census plans should worry us here Trump signs an executive order. by John Arthur Wilson / November 29, 2017
Politics Election day in Canada: stability time Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper by John Arthur Wilson / October 13, 2008