Idle oil and gas wells are dangers for tribes and people while the operators and regulators stand by.
*Runner-up SPJ’s Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award for Social Issues Reporting
When Indigenous women are harassed at work, gaps in tribal law can leave them in a precarious gray area.
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Once considered illegitimate, Native American peacemaking courts offer a model for criminal-justice reform.
*winner of SPJ’s Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award for Social Issues Reporting
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Punitive discipline, inadequate curriculum, and declining federal funding created an education crisis.
*winner of SPJ’s Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award for Social Issues Reporting
*runner-up for SPJ’s Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award for Government & Politics Reporting
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Native Americans say the law protects their children. The Goldwater Institute claims it does the opposite.
*winner of SPJ’s Northwest Excellence in Journalism Award for Social Issues Reporting
*2nd place winner for Best Feature Article, Print/Online from NAJA
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Each year logging companies drop thousands of pounds of herbicides onto Oregon forests; sometimes, the people living nearby get sprayed and sick.
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What happens when your garden, your kid’s school, the playground sits on top of former farms and orchards? What chemicals are living in the soil?
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A broken system leaves immigrant workers invisible - and in danger. Reprinted in Utne Reader.
*winner of the 2010 Hillman Prize for Magazine Writing
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Northwest tribes utilize traditions and religion to stem a health care crisis.
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When civilization coughs up its final death rattle, one of the last bastions of mankind’s survival will lie near Corvallis behind a modest sign touting a simple mantra: “Preserving plant genetic resources for all time.”
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“It’s absolutely shocking what’s going on,” say insiders. Secretive changes have diluted science and jeopardized public health.
*Winner of Salon.com’s Best Story of the Year
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Fresno County growers apply pesticides an average of 273,000 times per year; they don’t always stay in the fields for which they’re intended; they may lace the air and drift throughout town onto, say, the playground or people’s homes.
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If hybrids are driving a revolution, it's a televised road trip to marketing heaven.
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An investigation into the shadow world of sex and labor trafficking in the United States.
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