Oregon prosecutors said she didn’t protect her baby. She says she was surviving abuse.
Even in states like Oregon without an explicit “failure to protect” law, abused mothers can face prison time
Government
Washington misses its deadline to bring foster kids home from troubled out-of-state group facilities
When a Michigan boy died in May after being restrained by employees at a Sequel institution, child-welfare advocates in Washington demanded that the state bring home the foster kids remaining at Sequel facilities.
Washington foster kids detail abuse at Sequel group homes
Washington foster youths recount mistreatment at out-of-state Sequel Youth & Family Services facilities.
Laws banning private armies go unenforced in Washington
Paramilitary organizations are illegal in Washington and many other states.
Regulators crack down on misleading thrift operations
Within the last decade, state regulators across the country have accused many for-profit secondhand stores of masquerading as charities
Profiting from thrift: Who's getting rich off your secondhand stuff?
The growth of for-profit thrift stores like Value Village Atlanta is expanding nationwide.
Trump administration buries dozens of clean energy studies
The Trump administration has bottled up at least 46 studies by government energy researchers detailing how renewable energy could slash the United States’ contribution to climate change.
Can U.S. health authorities learn from BC’s experience with wildfire smoke?
British Columbia health specialists are ahead of their counterparts in the U.S. when it comes to anticipating sicknesses resulting from wildfire smoke.
Government, employers do little to protect outdoor workers from smoke
Government and employers do little to protect outdoor laborer such as farmworkers, mail carriers and construction crews from the effects of wildfire smoke.
Amid cries for racial justice, I-940 police reform lagging 2 years after passage
In 2018, Washington voters passed an initiative that made it easier to prosecute police officers who shoot civilians, required independent investigations of police use of force and mandated a new de-escalation training regimen.
Who Killed the Supergrid? Trump appointees short-circuited grid modernization to help the coal industry
In 2018, Trump appointees short-circuited U.S. grid modernization to help the coal industry by suppressing the Interconnections Seam Study.