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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Sarah Menzies |Nate Sanford |Sireen Abayazid
PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger and NPR CEO and President Katherine Maher are scheduled to testify to at a hearing of the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Wednesday at 7 a.m. PT. The testimony comes amid criticism from Republicans in Congress about news coverage from the outlets, and calls for federal funding cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Sarah Menzies |Nate Sanford |Sireen Abayazid
PBS CEO and President Paula Kerger and NPR CEO and President Katherine Maher are scheduled to testify to at a hearing of the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency on Wednesday at 7 a.m. PT. The testimony comes amid criticism from Republicans in Congress about news coverage from the outlets, and calls for federal funding cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Sarah Menzies |Nate Sanford |Sireen Abayazid
Photo by Bert W. Huntoon, courtesy Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA. Logo design by Jason LaClair (Sienum). The Last Reefnetters, a five-part docuseries, centers around the innovative method of reefnet fishing developed by the Lummi Nation and other Northern Straits Salish tribes thousands of years ago.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Nate Sanford |Sireen Abayazid |Cameron Sheppard
Exterior views of the REI Co-Op flagship store in Seattle on Tues., Jan. 28, 2025. (M. Scott Brauer/Cascade PBS) The National Labor Review Board (NLRB) this week filed a complaint against REI Co-op, after finding the retailer illegally withheld benefits packages from workers at unionized stores. The NLRB is seeking an order that would require REI to retroactively give unionized workers wage increases and bonuses that match those at non-union stores.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Sireen Abayazid |Cameron Sheppard |Laurel Demkovich
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, right, visits with former Secretary of State Ralph Munro, left, after a press conference in her office Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015, in Olympia. (Ted S. Warren/AP) This article originally appeared in the Washington State Standard. Ralph Munro, Washington’s longest-serving secretary of state and a moderate Republican who achieved unusually broad popularity across the political spectrum, died early Thursday at his convalescent home in Lacey.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Sireen Abayazid |Cameron Sheppard |Laurel Demkovich |Brandon Block
In a news cycle that is constantly changing, Cascade PBS wants to learn more about our readers. Help us understand how you get your news and how you feel about the current media climate by taking our latest reader survey. We also want to provide our readers with coverage that benefits you. Let us know what issues you want to hear more about and what topics or communities you feel are overlooked.
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1 month ago | 
cascadepbs.org | Cameron Sheppard |Sireen Abayazid |Laurel Demkovich |Brandon Block
This article originally appeared in The News Tribune. Pierce County has announced $17 million in affordable-housing investments made possible by revenue from the Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Sales Tax. In 2023, the Pierce County Council approved the sales tax that collected one-tenth of 1% of sales to leverage additional revenue for affordable-housing investments. The tax was named after Maureen Howard, a prominent advocate for the homeless in Tacoma who died in January 2023.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
kcur.org | Steve Kraske |Sireen Abayazid
Wesley Bell, the St. Louis prosecuting attorney, filed a motion earlier this year to take Marcellus Williams off of death row and planned to oversee a new hearing to vacate his first-degree murder conviction last week. Williams’ plea deal was set aside after the trial. Sean O’Brien is a professor at UMKC and a former public defender. He says there’s enough physical evidence to prove Williams’ innocence.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
kbia.org | Sireen Abayazid |Taylor Byas
The Unbound Book Festival is happening in Columbia this weekend and KBIA has been speaking with some of this year’s featured authors. Taylor Byas, a poet with roots in the Southside of Chicago, recently debuted her first full-length poetry collection I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, an award-winning tale about a Black woman’s journey into adulthood that pulls her away from her childhood home. Byas recently sat down with KBIA’s Sireen Abayazid.
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Jul 25, 2023 | 
nebraskapublicmedia.org | Sireen Abayazid
Lincoln parent Cindy Ryman Yost has three kids who grew up in the Lincoln Public School district. She considered a private education for her kids, but not for very long. “Each of our kids would probably have some part of who they are that might mean they would not be accepted or allowed to participate in a private school,” Ryman Yost said.
