
Brandon Block
Writer at Freelance
Investigative Reporter at Cascade PBS
investigative reporter @cascadepbs. formerly @theolympian, @report4america, @princetoninasia, @city_paper
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
cascadepbs.org | Brandon Block
Jail staff knew the 43-year-old Wiley was detoxing, too — Wiley wrote on his intake form that he had used fentanyl the night before police arrested him on charges of stealing $420 worth of goods from Target. Wiley heaved much of that night. Multiple bunkmates pushed an emergency intercom button to call guards’ attention to Wiley’s distress, but no one intervened. Around midnight, an inmate filled out a form requesting medical assistance and slipped it under the door for the guards.
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3 weeks ago |
cascadepbs.org | Brandon Block
Or, as Cory Doctorow puts it, “ensh-ttified.”Listen to the full sessions on the weekly Cascade PBS Ideas Festival podcast. “The thesis of ensh-ttification is whether or not you’re paying for the product, you’re the product,” said Doctorow, a journalist and tech activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation who coined the term in a 2022 article and has expanded his analysis into a forthcoming book of that name.
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1 month ago |
wenatcheeworld.com | Brandon Block
Jessica Silver watched nervously, hands in pockets, as her two youngest children swung in the backyard from a homemade tree swing fashioned from a skateboard. Side by side, Justin, 11, and Kaity, 13, suddenly tipped backwards and fell to the ground, giggling all the way. Silver hurried over to help them up. They gleefully climbed back on the swing and quickly tipped over again. kAm%96 c_\J62C\@=5 D:?8=6 >@> 4C24<65 2 D>:=6 2?5[ 7@C 2 3C:67 >@>6?E[ =2F8965 2=@?8D:56 E96>] %96? D96 C6>:?565 yFDE:?
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1 month ago |
cascadepbs.org | Brandon Block
The 40-year-old single mom cracked a smile and, for a brief moment, laughed alongside them. Then she reminded Justin to brush his hair out of his eyes. “I overcompensate, and I over-mother,” she acknowledged. “I’m very protective.” Silver also worries. She worries about big things, like when her five kids are going to get kicked out of this Bellingham house, which a homeless prevention program pays for, for now.
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1 month ago |
wenatcheeworld.com | Brandon Block
Kurt Beckett’s second meeting as chair of Washington’s Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council went smoothly, once he figured out how to turn on his microphone. Beckett named various energy plants that had applied for or received permits from EFSEC — an obscure agency at the heart of the state’s energy transition — and a staffer read updates on each.
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