Emily Schwing
Stories
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Hungry Like The ... Bainbridge Wolf? Bill Highlights Differing East/West Views On Washington Wolves
A bill in the Washington state House of Representatives would create a wolf sanctuary on Bainbridge Island. And while the bill’s sponsor, Republican Joel Kretz, knows it’s unlikely to even get a hearing, he said he introduced it to make a point.
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Hungry Like The ... Bainbridge Wolf? Bill Highlights Differing East/West Views On Washington Wolves
A bill in the Washington state House of Representatives would create a wolf sanctuary on Bainbridge Island. And while the bill’s sponsor, Republican...
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Washington Lawmaker Unveils New Bill To Address Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women
Murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls are the focus of a bill introduced in the Washington House of Representatives on Friday. Last year,...
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Washington Legislators Consider Statewide Native American Voting Rights Act
A bill in the Washington Senate seeks to improve voting rights for Native Americans.
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Northwest Attorneys General Join Federal Appeal Of Decision that Struck Down ICWA
Attorneys General from 21 US states, including those in Oregon and Washington, f iled briefs this week urging a federal appeals court to uphold the...
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Shutdown Cancels Federal Wildfire Training In Oregon As Northwest States Scramble To Prepare
From aviation contracts to deals with vendors and even seasonal hiring, the partial federal government shutdown is cutting into planning and preparation...
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Two former Jesuit officials resign from Gonzaga University after revelations about abusive priests o
This story was produced in partnership with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX . Two priests in high-level positions at Gonzaga...
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Jesuits sent priests accused of sexual abuse to retire on Gonzaga's campus
A 20-month investigation shows the extent the Catholic Church's order of Jesuits, aka Society of Jesus, used Northwest Native reservations and Alaska Native communities as "dumping grounds" for clergy with credible accusations of sex abuse. Instead of being prosecuted or removed from ministry, many were sent to other remote assignments, and housed in a retirement community on the Gonzaga University campus in Spokane.
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Jesuits sent priests accused of sexual abuse to retire on Gonzaga's campus
On the surface, Father James Poole seemed like the cool priest in Nome, Alaska. He founded a Catholic mission radio station that broadcast his Jesuit...
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Washington 5th District Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers Cruises to Victory, Claims Eighth Term
Washington 5th Congressional District Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers beat Democratic challenger Lisa Brown in the 2018 Midterm election to claim her eighth term in the U.S. House.