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Leadership in a time of uncertainty with health care leaders Sydney Kurle | Jan 19, 2021 Share this: From PPE shortages, the COVID-19 pandemic, staffing shortages and wildfires, 2020 has thrown as many curveballs as it could to the health care industry in Washington. Gary Kaplan, CEO of Virginia Mason, Ketul Patel, CEO of CHI Franciscan and Beth Johnson, CEO of Coordinated Care, joined us as the final keynote of our 2021 Washington State of Reform Virtual Health Policy Conference to talk about the lessons they have learned in this unique year.     “It has been really fast paced...

Trottier receives governor’s award for individual achievement in arts By Sue Sitter - | Jan 16, 2021 Sue Sitter/PCT David White Thunder Trottier poses near a gift by artist Walter Piehl in his “mini-museum” at his Rugby home. A lifelong devotion to the arts for local radio personality David White Thunder Trottier has sparked recognition from North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and the North Dakota Council on the Arts. Trottier is among six “stellar recipients of the 2021 Governor’s Awards for the Arts,” according to a Jan. 6 announcement released by the council. The governor selecte...

People line up to take a COVID-19 test in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles on April 20, 2020. (AP Photo / Marcio Jose Sanchez) Los Angeles activists held car caravans in late December to block evangelical recording artist Sean Feucht from holding outreach events in two homeless communities in LA, including the large one in the 54-block area known as Skid Row. Stephen “Cue” Jn’Marie, who founded the Row Church, also known as the Church Without Walls, in Skid Row, and Pete White, founder of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, were among the organizers taki...

by Stephen Chapman Brandon has announced two new recruits following a series of client wins at the end of 2020. The North West branding agency has appointed Beth Johnson as Account Manager. She returns to the region after working at BrandMe in London, where she led projects for Birdseye, Lucozade and Ribena. “I’d kept a keen eye on Brandon for a while, as it’s very rare for a medium-sized brand agency outside of London to have such a strong calibre of consumer goods clients,” she said. “And all the creative work I saw from the outside shone through. Now I’ve got the pleasure of wo...

Marijuana legalization in Illinois came with grand plans for wiping clean many criminal records involving cannabis. That aspect of the law was so important that on the eve of legalization on Jan. 1, 2020, Gov. JB Pritzker pardoned more than 11,000 people of low-level marijuana convictions. Yet more than 700,000 cases could qualify for expungement, a process in which police and court records of arrests and convictions are cleared. The process is crucial to giving people with such records a better chance at getting a job, an education and a place to live. Now, almost one year after legali...