Investigations WA’s $5M youth homelessness effort is ramping up. Is it working? Though the funds helped dozens of young people secure housing, delays and slow spending stalled some programs in their first year. by Elizabeth Whitman Youth Today / August 15, 2023
Investigations Washington’s new youth homelessness ‘Lifeline’ service lags The $750,000 pilot program has struggled to meet promises after state officials chose a lobbying firm to build the hotline service from scratch. by Elizabeth Whitman & Sam Leeds Youth Today / October 25, 2023
Investigations Podcast | It’s a Youth Today News takeover The third episode of the investigative series co-produced with Crosscut focuses on one woman’s experience with foster care and homelessness in WA. by Elizabeth Whitman / January 3, 2024
Investigations Researchers team up with court staff to help WA homeless youth H-SYNC — Housing Stability for Youth in Courts — has piloted using evidence-based surveys to identify teenagers in need of support services. by Elizabeth Whitman & Sam Leeds Youth Today / November 14, 2023
Investigations ‘Home was never a place’: One woman’s life in WA foster care Now 30, Janell Braxton says she continues to reckon with the separations and instability stemming from her time in the foster system. by Elizabeth Whitman & Sam Leeds Youth Today / November 21, 2023
Investigations WA homelessness group exposed sensitive data on kids, young adults A Way Home Washington launched an internal investigation after health and safety information on hundreds of young clients was made public. by Elizabeth Whitman / July 27, 2023
Mr. Monorail: No there there on new elevated plan New monorail proposal has some problems. by Dick Falkenbury / August 21, 2014
Politics Everett's answer to efficient trash pickup Everett's fleet of mini trash trucks makes garbage pickup cleaner, safer, faster and cheaper. by Dick Falkenbury / March 16, 2014
Politics In Pennsylvania, a UW student blogger wonders how Obama will fare I'm sitting in a hotel room here in Pittsburgh, and the local news tells me that Wednesday night's debate has Sen. Barack Obama rattled. by Liz Burlingame / April 19, 2008
Politics Gregoire bus tour update: Campaigning means babysitting Editor's note: Liz Burlingame, a student at University of Washington and member of Seattle Politicore, is an embedded blogger on the Gregoire bus tour. Not many people know more about babysitting... by Liz Burlingame / April 10, 2008