SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
A decade-long battle over removing toxic chemicals from the Spokane River may continue in a Seattle courtroom.
Members of the group Spokane River Team are asking a federal judge to push government regulators to limit the amount of PCBs that can be discharged into the river.
Much recent environmental work has been done to improve the quality of the Spokane River. That includes the city’s work to install huge storage basins to collect stormwater so it can be treated before it’s released back into the river.
But Spokane River Team members say environmental agencies are dragging their feet on PCB pollution.
Sonia Joseph said she s reached a $4.4m settlement with the city of Kent over the death of her son Giovonn Joseph-McDade. The city also agrees to install a park bench in his memory. Credit: Courtesy of Joseph-McDade family
Death of young Black man killed by Kent police leads to $4.4M settlement, and push for new laws Apr 16, 2021
Family members of a young man shot by Kent police in 2017 say the legal settlement theyâve reached with the city will help them heal. But they also say their journey is not over.
Giovonn Joseph-McDade s mother Sonia Joseph said at a press conference Thursday that her sonâs death galvanized her to seek changes to the inquest process and state law.
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It was a roller coaster of activity for Parler, a 2-year-old magnet for the far right that welcomed a surge of new users. It became the No. 1 free app on iPhones late last week after Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream social media platforms silenced President Donald Trump’s accounts over comments that seemed to incite Wednesday’s violent insurrection.
The wave of Trump followers flocking to the service was short-lived. Google yanked Parler’s smartphone app from its app store Friday for allowing postings that seek to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.
Apple followed suit on Saturday after giving Parler a day to address complaints it was being used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities. But the death knell came from Amazon Web Services, the leading provider of cloud computing infrastructure, which informed Parler it would need to look for a new web-hosting service after Sunday.