We can’t mask the virus of gun violence plaguing our communities
My life was changed forever on Jan. 8, 2011, in a grocery store parking lot when I got the text from my mom, “Gabby was shot.” Gabby was my boss, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. I served as her legislative director in Washington, D.C. My head swirled. It felt like someone had punched me in the gut. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times)
WA state Democrat, GOP lawmakers agree. Both sides protest appeal of Hanford worker law
Washington state legislators who passed a bill to make it easier for ill Hanford site workers to qualify for state workers’ compensation are protesting the Biden administration’s challenge to the new law. Some 66 state legislators, including Democrats and Republicans and representatives and senators, signed a letter objecting to a challenge of the law filed with the U.S. Supreme Court.
Continue reading at Tri-City Herald. (Department of Energy)
The West’s housing crisis pushes unhoused families to live in forests
Kunisha Fernandez, her husband, Steven Fitch, and their four children had spent five years in Las Vegas when, last spring, Fernandez saw a YouTube video of a family camping full-time: “A day in our life! Family living in a tent.” Fernandez found it captivating — four girls and their dad walking on the beach; dinner cooked on a campfire overlooking the ocean; life under starry skies.
Fernandez watched another video like it and then another, over and over again, like a playlist, and she thought about how her family had never gone camping together. That night, she shared it with Fitch. “Wouldn’t it be cool if we did this?” she asked. Continue reading at Crosscut. (Blake Gordon/High Country News)
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