Sammy Mabe News Today

The world's largest burrowing clam, found in Washington waters around Puget Sound, is serious business.

Many state and local governments infringe on tribal nations’ taxing authority, siphoning billions of dollars in tax revenue from reservations over the past few decades alone.

A Public Integrity investigation found that many state and local governments infringe on tribal nations’ taxing authority, siphoning billions of dollars.

Last year, employment for Americans with disabilities reached the highest number on record, according to the Kessler Foundation, though many advocates say better hiring and workplace practices are still needed. Before the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990, many people with disabilities were openly denied work, including Sammy Mabe, who's been working as a switchboard operator at LewisGale Hospital in Pulaski for fifty years.

“There was a wound that was made in our relationship and were hopefully going to start healing that,” said Suquamish Tribal Chairman Leonard Forsman.