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WA mobile home communities organize against ‘economic eviction’
Port Orchard-based Hurst & Son LLC bought dozens of parks in recent years. Now residents say the company is raising rents and cutting services.
Ashli Blow
Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal
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SCOTUS won’t hear the challenge to WA’s ‘conversion therapy’ ban
A Christian therapist sued on First Amendment grounds over a 2018 law blocking the treatment for minors, but a lower court's ruling will stand.
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Why convictions lag compared to sex trafficking reports in the PNW
While Washington has some of the toughest trafficking laws in the nation, law enforcement in Seattle and Portland struggle to put policy into practice.
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How the overturn of ‘Roe’ still impacts Washington abortion care
Seventeen months after the Supreme Court decision, clinics and patients continue to face a maze of legal restrictions that differ from state to state.
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A WA city council might give itself the power to ban library books
The Liberty Lake proposal would usurp the library board of trustees’ policy-making control, including decisions about which titles to stock.