News The Washington mental health lifeline made for and by Native people The Native and Strong Lifeline provides connection and culturally specific care to callers in crisis. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Indian Country Today and Underscore News / June 19, 2023
Indigenous Affairs Yakama Nation’s new public safety campus gives justice room to grow The tribal court system, which had occupied a cluster of trailers since the ’50s, plans to add services like a mental health or a veterans court. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Underscore News and ICT / January 9, 2024
Equity Snoqualmie Tribe starts land protection sales tax at Salish Lodge The 2% tax will preserve ancestral sites such as Snoqualmie Falls, and could be a model for other Indigenous nations. by Nika Bartoo-Smith Underscore/ICT / July 17, 2023
Politics To fix the ferry system, sell those boats How are we going to keep the state's ferries afloat? by Scott St. Clair / January 20, 2011
Environment Climate policy in the West survives the election Southern California traffic. by Eric de Place / November 3, 2010
Environment Attention PSE: coal plant in need of analysis A coal-powered energy plan in Colstrip, Montana by Eric de Place / April 26, 2012
Equity Seniority-based layoffs at Seattle Schools may be crumbling Olga Addae, SEA president, at the rally by Scott St. Clair / June 9, 2009
Politics Federal stimulus spending could take us down the wrong road Highway 520 in Bellevue at evening rush hour. by Eric de Place / May 5, 2009
Politics The case for Sarah Palin The Alaska governor is dead center in the mainstream of middle class American life, argues a conservative Crosscut contributor. by Scott St. Clair / September 2, 2008
Culture Death by a thousand cuts Loggers in Grays Harbor County, Wash., date unknown. (University of Washington) by Scott St. Clair / August 7, 2008