'I've struggled with homelessness my whole life, Lorne Briden said, 'being incarcerated, drug addiction. Now I’m getting away from all that stuff and turning a new leaf.'

Briden is one of the new residents of Sacred Medicine House in Lake City.
kuow.org/stories/new-se…

'The challenges we've been facing over the last several years have been well documented,' said Steve Nevey, the new head of Washington State Ferries, 'we don't have enough vessels. We're short on crew. But we are working to address those issues.'
kuow.org/stories/short-…

.KQED News just won a legal victory in its fight to get internal use of force and misconduct records from the largest employer of peace officers in the state: The California Dept of Corrections and Rehabilitation. kqed.org/news/11982270/…

New episode of “Lost Patients” drops today! In it you’ll hear from me about how I became obsessed with an abandoned mental hospital — and found other people on relentless quests to find answers among its hundreds of unmarked graves.

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/los…

“For so long, it’s been, ‘Boys will be boys. You just got to deal with it,’” one officer told KUOW. When the MeToo movement took hold, she said, “It felt like it didn’t apply to us or reach us because there weren’t enough of us to speak up.”
kuow.org/stories/10-fem…

Great reporting by Ashley Hiruko & Diana Opong on how patients at UW Medicine's Reproductive Care clinic are grappling with their former doctor's alleged fertility fraud. tinyurl.com/4n5m9vtr

actually, it wasn’t just a dozen LA Times employees who signed, it was more than three dozen. and yes it’s true we’ve been taken off coverage, which in effect removes a great many Muslim journalists and most of not all Palestinians at the LA Times from coverage

NPR's producer in Gaza was not able to find a single person who has been able to avail themselves of the 3 hour 'safe passage' the Israeli military said it gave Palestinians to flee on the main road from northern to southern Gaza today. npr.org/2023/11/04/121…

I’m an incarcerated journalist. Today Securus, a predatory prison communication co, silenced journalists. With no warning they deleted all drafts of writing. Years of work. Manuscripts. Articles. Everything gone. We’re no longer able to save drafts. Now near impossible to write.

I worked for Sound Publishing for two years. I wrote seven stories a week for seven newspapers.

I made $14.25 an hour. I never received a raise.

Pay your journalists a living wage.

We need your support!

Everett Herald continues to deliver award-winning journalism, but the people who produce that journalism cannot afford to live in the community they cover.

If you believe journalists deserve a living wage, sign our petition today!

tinyurl.com/5n7w22jd

This is about as good as it gets. Everyone on each side of this conflict — which in America is just raw political tribalism at this point — should watch it.
channel4.com/news/who-was-b…

'I can’t remember a time since 9/11 when emotion and bloodlust overwhelmed reason as thoroughly as they do now, including among liberal elites in media and politics.'

nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…

The timeline to potentially close some Seattle schools is getting clearer.
kuow.org/stories/here-s…

SPD fired Durand Dace two weeks ago. They said he spread a rumor that Chief Adrian Diaz had hired a romantic partner to be his advisor.

Dace told KUOW that he feels like he was made to be the 'fall guy' by the department.
kuow.org/stories/i-was-…

A rumor about the Seattle police chief has rocked the Seattle Police Department -- and resulted in several investigations and internal probes. w/Ashley Hiruko bit.ly/44J20B7

(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading)
Please.
Folks, seriously.
PLEASE.
Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.