Carolyn Bick

1 week ago | gigharbornow.org | Carolyn Bick

Arts & Entertainment Community News While to this reporter’s knowledge the prime minister of Croatia did not appear, the annual Croatia Day festival wasn’t lacking for attendees. Several hundred people filtered through the small festival at Skansie Brothers Park saw over the course of the six-hour celebration. Rain deterred no one, and many attendees sported the Croatian flag on their face or clothing.

1 week ago | gigharbornow.org | Carolyn Bick

Arts & Entertainment Community Washington’s eighth and newest Poet Laureate, Derek Sheffield, hails from right here in Gig Harbor, where he was first a student at Gig Harbor High School, and later returned to teach. It was Sheffield’s teacher, Kevin Miller, who showed him how poetry could light up one’s whole being; it was the Harbor who taught him to become a poet.

1 week ago | theurbanist.org | Carolyn Bick

In the wee hours of the morning on June 8, 2020, Seattle Police Department (SPD) Officer Carl Anderson tossed a blast ball at a line of Black Lives Matter protesters. The ball hit a young woman in the chest, exploding on impact. She crumpled to the ground. It was thanks to a group of street medics that she did not die. They did their best to keep her alive, and managed to bring her to Virginia Mason hospital, amidst a barrage of “less lethal” weapon assaults by police officers.

3 weeks ago | theurbanist.org | Carolyn Bick

Since the start of her tenure in 2018, the head of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), Lisa Judge, appears to have misused public funds by deducting money from her office’s general fund to pay to park her private vehicle in a City-owned parking space. This is illegal under City law, which also dictates that an employee must set up payroll deduction to pay for a parking space.

1 month ago | thestranger.com | Carolyn Bick

Jamie Tompkins, the former Seattle Police Department Chief of Staff, is challenging the narrative of her dismissal—and the dismissal of former SPD Chief Adrian Diaz. In a letter hand-delivered to both Harrell and Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson on November 27, 2024, Tompkins alleges that SPD officers ranking as high as assistant chiefs participated in widespread, targeted sexual harassment, including stalking, and that SPD leadership dismissed her attempts to bring it to light....