I’m a Washington-based journalist with a passion for local-level public interest journalism. I’ve covered state lawmakers’ recent attempt to exempt themselves from public disclosure statute, how the Seattle Mariners threatened not to sign their new 25-year lease at Safeco Field if they didn’t receive $180 million in taxpayer funds,  and the detrimental impacts of cash bail on poor and homeless defendants in King County courts. Currently, I cover criminal justice for the Inlander in Spokane as a staff writer.

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