Lauren Gallup
Reporter at Northwest Public Broadcasting
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3 days ago |
nwpb.org | Lauren Gallup
Outside the Pierce County council building on a sunny early June afternoon, people gathered waving rainbow flags while listening to pop hits like Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”They were commemorating a moment in the county’s history: the first time the pride flag has flown outside the government building. It had been about a year since a controversy over the flag arose within the county council.
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1 week ago |
nwpb.org | Lauren Gallup
Lewelyn Dixon, her family and a growing community of supporters received good news Thursday afternoon — Dixon would be released from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma. The decision came during a hearing inside the center. While the court was in session, supporters of Dixon gathered outside to protest her detention and call for her release. Cheers erupted from the crowd and tears streamed down people’s faces when the news of her release broke.
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1 week ago |
spokanepublicradio.org | Owen Henderson |Lauren Gallup |Anna King |James Dawson
Top bishops sue WA over mandated reporting lawWashington’s top Catholic officials are suing the state over its new law adding clergy to its list of professions required to report child abuse. The bishops argue the law amounts to religious discrimination by mandating the clergy members disclose things told to them in confession.
Today's Headlines: Manufactured home sale eased by new WA law; budget cuts may mean library job cuts
1 week ago |
spokanepublicradio.org | Doug Nadvornick |Owen Henderson |James Dawson |Lauren Gallup
New law could increase ease of manufactured home salesResidents of a north Spokane manufactured home park on Tuesday celebrated the signing of a law that will bring more affordable homes to their community. Takesa Village in Mead, a resident-owned cooperative, is working with a non-profit, Village Co-Housing Works, to add more manufactured homes. The non-profit buys them and installs them in Takesa.
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2 weeks ago |
nwpb.org | Lauren Gallup
Celina McKenney has bills to pay, and a lot of people rely on her to pay them. As co-executive of Share and Care House, a nonprofit in Pierce County that provides permanent supportive housing to over 140 people, McKenney oversees the money coming in and going out. One of the many things her organization does is pay for clients’ leases. For over a decade, it has used funding from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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