Daughters of Hanford

PHOTO: Anna King interviewing Jane Hedges, the now-retired head of Washington Ecology’s Hanford office. Hedges grew up swimming off the docks in Richland,…

In World War Two, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was brand new. Sue Olson was there as a young secretary. She took shorthand, pumped out calculations and…

Originally published on October 1, 2015In southeast Washington state, a group of farms has been frozen in time. It’s at Hanford, the area the federal…

This story was originally published AUG 4, 2015.In the West, there aren’t a lot of black woman geologists who specialize in uranium deposits and…

This story originally published JUN 2, 2015The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington is one of the most contaminated places on earth. It’s…

Wherever she was, she stood out for being half white, or half Japanese. Shirley Olinger will only whisper the racist names she was called as a girl.She…