Building a stronger, more just & transparent democracy
Building a stronger, more just & transparent democracy
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SOUTH BEND - Pacific County is a co-plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) filed on Aug. 23 by 22 counties in Pierce County Superior Court. The lawsuit aims to stop the agency from discontinuing services to defendants when charges are dropped. The lawsuit centers on Western State Hospital (WSH) in Lakewood and Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake, both of which DSHS operates. The hospitals are tasked with...
When you drive around Skagit County, you see lots of animals: horses, cows, goats and more. One small farm on Best Road that immediately caught my attention has a sign stating JF Miniature Donkeys. The owners are Julie and Todd Jones and they gave me a tour of the property that enabled me to interact with many of the donkeys, who it turns out are very friendly, much more like pet dogs than horses or cows. My question as a reporter was, "What do you do with all of these...
A year ago in September, I wrote about a few books in these pages that I thought our community might read and asked for suggestions for those many titles I certainly missed. One that came in over the transom was David Buerge's "Chief Seattle," the result of 20 years of research. My first thought was, "Really? What could be left to reveal about this mythic figure?" But I was familiar with the work of the author and suspected there was more going on here than I realized. "You...
