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    Spokane’s Black community newspaper is making a comeback

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    / February 27, 2024
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    Over half of WA school bond measures get majority vote, but fail
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    WA debates bill on ‘stealthing,’ or lying about sexual protection
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    / February 22, 2024
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    WA health officials throw away millions of pandemic supplies

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    / February 23, 2024
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    A WA bill would extend unemployment pay to workers on strike
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        Paige Zorn plays with her boy Zaylin in the playroom of J-Unit at the Washington Corrections Center for Women
        Crosscut Reports

        Podcast | What it’s like raising a baby in a Washington prison

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        / November 8, 2023

        Reporters Amanda Snyder and Joseph O'Sullivan share the stories of three moms who live with their babies through the state's prison parenting program.

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        Podcast | Following the COVID small-business money

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        / October 25, 2023

        The Working Washington program aimed to get pandemic relief to small and “historically disadvantaged” business owners. Did it?

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        Crosscut Reports

        Podcast | Stressors push WA nurses to leave their jobs behind

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        / September 20, 2023

        Reporter Megan Burbank spoke with former nurses who, amid grievances like staffing shortages and low pay, changed their careers.

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        Crosscut Reports

        Podcast | After a takeover, mobile home tenants are fighting back

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        / September 6, 2023

        Residents say that WA-based management company Hurst & Son LLC is responsible for price hikes, reduced services and other grievances.

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        Crosscut Reports

        Podcast | WA braces for impact after SCOTUS ruling on free speech

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        / August 23, 2023

        Reporter Mai Hoang explains how the court decision to exempt a Colorado web designer from LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination laws could have a ripple effect. 

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        Two Yakima orchards settle years-long lawsuit with Washington AG

        After an investigation found that hundreds of workers at G&G Orchards and RC Orchards LLC were not paid properly, they will receive $500,000 in back wages.

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        • Mai Hoang
        / July 14, 2023
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        WA’s new capital gains tax brings in millions more than expected

        The latest state revenue forecast brings good news for the current two-year budget cycle, and for the next one as well.

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        / June 27, 2023 /
        Updated at 3:30 p.m., on June 27
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        Podcast | How bills on guns, housing and abortion passed in WA

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        / May 10, 2023

        Crosscut politics reporter Joseph O’Sullivan and Axios reporter Melissa Santos break down the biggest developments from the 2023 legislative session.

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        Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he won't run for a fourth term

        First elected in 2012, Inslee is only the second person to serve three consecutive terms as the state's governor.

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        / May 1, 2023
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        WA governor's race could decide the fate of state transparency law

        Meanwhile, state lawmakers will defend their use of 'legislative privilege' to hide messages from the public in a case brought by the Washington Coalition of Open Government and others.

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        / April 20, 2023
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        U.S. Supreme Court delays decision on abortion pill case

        As justices consider overturning the FDA's 23-year-old approval of mifepristone, Washington state continues to protect access to the drug.

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        • Donna Gordon Blankinship
        / April 19, 2023
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        Washington is still offering stipends to homeless-service workers

        Human-services employees can apply through June 2 to receive $2,000.

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        • Josh Cohen
        / April 17, 2023
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        Environment

        Podcast | How a wayward whale foretold decades of exploitation

        People flocked to see a young orca lost in a river near Portland. Then she was killed, pickled and left in a tank on a mountainside.

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        • Stephen Hegg
        / April 14, 2023
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        Environment

        River otters return to the Duwamish despite toxic contamination

        Is their presence a harbinger of environmental recovery? Don't assume so.

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        • Carin Leong
        Hakai Magazine
        / April 13, 2023
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        Politics

        Washington Senate passes ban on assault-style rifles

        Perhaps lawmakers' strongest action on firearms regulations to date, the proposal needs one more vote in the House before going to the desk of Gov. Inslee.

        by
        • Joseph O'Sullivan
        / April 8, 2023 /
        Updated at 5:48 p.m., on April 25
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