Ryan Kelley climbed on scaffolding, helped a man who was moving a police barricade and repeatedly waved fellow protesters toward the Capitol riots in Washington on Jan. 6. Now he’s running for governor in Michigan. Several other people who participated in the riots are running for Congress or state office in Michigan. Jonathan Oosting and our grantees at Bridge Michigan ...
Residents of a former mill town rallied for a longtime local police officer after she filed a harassment complaint against the new police chief in 2020. Within a year, the police department was disbanded, the chief was fired, then unfired, two town managers were terminated and the town agreed to $250,000 in settlements with two former officers.But little of what ...
InvestigateWest’s Decarbonizing Cascadia series, with a grant from the Fund, has been exploring how Washington, Oregon and British Columbia’s governments have failed to live up to their promises to moderate climate pollution by 2020. Amanda Follett Hosgood’s recent installment of the series explores the Seed the North project, which aims to regenerate large swaths of land in British Columbia in ...