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Crosscut Talks on NWPB

By Hannah Snyder May 30, 2023

Cross section of wood with crosscut and NWPB logos

Crosscut Talks and NWPB bring you stimulating and evocative conversations from the 2023 Crosscut Talks Festival. This limited run series will air on NWPB News and the NWPB TV services. From Crosscut Talks: "From Washington State to Washington, D.C., conversations with the politicians, leaders, journalists and thinkers who shape our world." Read More

Poll: Washingtonians Aren’t Quite Ready For A Post-Pandemic Normal

By NWPB News April 28, 2021

From left: Seattle Sounders during a match on Oct. 6, 2019. (CREDIT: Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut), People walk into Pepperdock Restaurant by Seattle’s Alki Beach on March 20, 2020. (CREDIT: Jen Dev/Crosscut), Rattlesnake Ledge in North Bend is busy with hikers on March 22, 2020. (CREDIT: Jen Dev/Crosscut)

While some Washingtonians appear eager to get vaccinated and get on with their lives, a new poll reveals even some people who are fully vaccinated remain cautious about getting back to normal. Continue Reading Poll: Washingtonians Aren’t Read More

Poll: Only 55% Of Washington Voters Say They Want COVID-19 Vaccine

By NWPB News January 7, 2021

Outside the COVID-19 city of Seattle testing site in SODO on Nov. 24, 2020. CREDIT: Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut

A new Crosscut/Elway Poll of Washington voters conducted between Christmas and New Year’s Eve found 55% intended to get vaccinated, including 37% who were certain to get vaccinated as soon as they could. Eighteen percent said they were very likely to get the vaccine, but 27% said they planned to wait and see and 15% were certain they would not get vaccinated. Read More

Yakima Journalist Who Lost Her Mom To COVID: Don’t Let Gatherings This Season Take Yours

By Scott Leadingham December 28, 2020

Journalist Emily McCarty and her mother, Mary, who died in November, four days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. Courtesy of Emily McCarty/Crosscut

Emily McCarty is a Yakima-based reporter for Crosscut/KCTS. Her mom, Mary, died in a Spokane hospital in November, four days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. McCarty wrote about her mom and her family’s personal experience in an essay titled “I lost my mom to COVID-19. Don’t let the holidays steal yours.” Read More

Why Public Media In Washington Stand With Seattle News Outlets In Fight Over Press Independence

By NWPB News July 31, 2020

Bystanders yell at a police officer to remove his knee from a detained person’s neck while SPD made arrests at a vandalized T-Mobile store downtown, May 30, 2020. A moment later a fellow officer forcibly removed the officer's knee from the man's neck. CREDIT: Shaminder Dulai/Crosscut

Washington public media news leaders urge the state to uphold the right of journalists to report without fear of their work being confiscated by law enforcement. Continue Reading Why Public Media In Washington Read More

Northwest Mask Wars And Pandemics: Nothing New For Washington As Politics Of 1918 Return

By NWPB News July 20, 2020

Volunteers wearing gauze masks at a street kitchen in Cincinnati serve food to children of families afflicted by the flu pandemic in the winter of 1918-1919.

In 1918 Walla Walla, the chief of police, refused to enforce a state mask mandate. He pointed out that he was going to meet heavy resistance and, anyway, that he had no authority to carry out a state directive, only city ordinances. Still, he also openly defied the instructions of the city’s health officer, J.E. Vanderpool, to follow the state health officer’s guidance. Read More