Ed Komenda

Jan 24, 2025 | billingsgazette.com | Gene Johnson |Ed Komenda |Gene Johnson

EVERETT, Wash. — As other entrepreneurs push the edges of technology to bring well-heeled tourists to space, Stockton Rush saw new opportunities for exploring another frontier: the deep sea.

Jan 24, 2025 | billingsgazette.com | Ed Komenda |Susan Haigh

SEATTLE (AP) — Need Plan B? Tap your credit card and enter B6. Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine, one that's become more popular on campuses around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion last year. It's stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.

Dec 31, 2023 | idahostatesman.com | Lindsey Wasson |Ed Komenda

This is the second of two stories. The first is “Survivors of Idaho’s World War II incarceration camp worry about a proposed wind farm near site.”The gnats are back, swarming near my face. But I, Lindsey Wasson, am a visitor and can leave whenever I want. My grandfather couldn’t. The expanse of sagebrush and farmland is fading in the dying sunset, broken up by a looming, reconstructed guard tower.

Dec 31, 2023 | idahostatesman.com | Ed Komenda |Lindsey Wasson

This is the first of two stories. The second is “Pilgrimages to Idaho’s WWII incarceration camp are profound for survivors, descendants.” Behind the barbed wire, the little boy pressed his ink-covered index finger onto the mint-green exit card. And a photograph was snapped of his frightened face. Paul Tomita was four. It was July 4, 1943.

Dec 8, 2023 | staradvertiser.com | Ed Komenda |Lindsey Wasson

Unlimited access to premium stories for as low as $12.95 /mo. Get It Now JEROME, Idaho >> Behind the barbed wire, the little boy pressed his ink-covered index finger onto the mint-green exit card. And a photograph was snapped of his frightened face. Paul Tomita was 4. It was July 4, 1943. Independence Day at Minidoka, a camp in the vast Idaho desert, where over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children were incarcerated during World War II as security risks because of their ancestry.