Apr 24 Teacher evaluations without student test scores cost Washington waiver from school sanctions By Kyla Calvert Mason Washington is the first state to lose its waiver from the No Child Left Behind requirement. Washington was among the 43 states and the District of Columbia that the Department of Education freed since 2011 from sanctions placed on schools… Continue reading
Apr 22 Watch How much does it really cost to live in a city like Seattle? By PBS News Hour In Seattle, there is a growing push to raise the minimum wage 62 percent to $15 an hour, which the University of Washington has calculated as the minimum cost of living for an adult with one child. But would the… Continue watching
Apr 17 Watch SeaTac airport workers fight exclusion from $15 minimum wage By PBS News Hour In SeaTac, Wash., home of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, citizens voted last year to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. However, a court decision — now being appealed — has excluded the 5,000 or so workers on airport… Continue watching
Apr 16 Death toll rises to 39 in Washington mudslide By News Desk The death toll from the mudslide that hit the Washington town of Oso has risen to 39. The Snohomish County sheriff's office still lists seven people as missing from the March 22 landslide that buried some 30 homes in the… Continue reading
Apr 14 Florida Democrats hope medical pot measure will boost voter turnout By Michael J. Mishak, Associated Press MIAMI -- Democrats in the nation's largest swing-state see the question of whether to legalize medical marijuana as a rare source of hope and high voter turnout in this year's midterm elections. Party operatives are pushing a constitutional amendment that… Continue reading
Apr 10 USGS simulation shows how quickly the Washington landslide liquefied By Joshua Barajas The U.S. Geological Survey released a computer simulation Thursday of the mile-wide Washington state mudslide, which left dozens dead and devastated at least 30 houses in March. In the simulation, an entire hillside near the town of Oso, Wash. collapses… Continue reading
Apr 07 UPDATE: Death toll rises to 33 in Washington mudslide By Margaret Myers, News Desk A total of 24 bodies have been recovered from the Washington mudslide, Washington officials reported Monday. Continue reading
Apr 03 Potentially lifesaving national landslide maps are 30 years out of date By Tony Schick, Earthfix The last time the U.S. Geological Survey made a national map of landslide hazards, it did so on paper. It didn’t use laser imaging for landslide detection and it didn’t render the maps with the high-powered geographic software near-universally… Continue reading
Mar 31 Watch News Wrap: Guinean authorities say Ebola outbreak has grown into ‘unprecedented epidemic’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 30 Number of missing drops in Washington landslide as search continues By Kayla Ruble The number of people thought to be missing from a deadly landslide in a Washington town has dropped from 90 to 30 late Saturday as authorities verified information and cross-referenced lists. Continue reading