Meet the students who fought for free menstrual products at Washington schools — and won
When they were freshmen, Jinyang Zhang and Ramya Arumilli advocated for free menstrual products in their school bathrooms. This year, they were part of a successful effort to secure the same for students statewide. Zhang and Arumilli, now seniors at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, were two of the many students who testified in support of House Bill 1273 during the legislative session that ended last month. Continue reading at The Bellingham Herald. (TVW)
Suicide warning signs missed at Washington prisons, investigation finds
For the second time in less than a year, Washington’s Corrections Ombuds (OCO) is warning that the state’s prison system needs to do more to prevent inmate suicides. In a 15-page investigation scheduled for release Monday, the OCO found that two inmates died by suicide in 2020 after prison staff failed to recognize signs of mental distress and didn’t follow suicide prevention policies. Continue reading at KUOW. (Thomas Hawk)
What Mom really wants is help for her family
No doubt, Mom will love what you got her for Mother’s Day, whether it’s a fuchsia basket, a gift certificate, chocolates, the day off from cooking and clean-up or just a card. (But tell us you did get her more than a card.) Certainly, she’ll appreciate the sentiment behind the gift and the gratitude you’ve shown for all she’s done. But what she might really like — and not just for herself, but for her daughters and granddaughters, too — would be some progress on changes that could make life easier for herself and her family, things that have become especially clear during the pandemic. Continue reading at The Everett Herald. (The Columbus Dispatch)
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