Politics Social workers fleeing troubled foster care system Lousy pay, a toxic workplace and excessive workloads are driving away the people who serve vulnerable kids and their families. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / December 7, 2016
Politics Foster parents abandoning troubled system Washington state lost nearly one in five foster homes between 2008 and 2015 amid complaints of discord and disarray. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / October 27, 2016
Politics 4 fixes for Washington’s foster-care crisis Brandon Fogg, who has experience both as a foster child and foster parent, says foster care needs a celebrity champion. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / September 21, 2016
Equity State’s foster system sets kids up for failure When foster children spend the night in a hotel or in a foster home that agrees to keep them for only one night at a time, they typically don’t make it to school the next day. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / September 20, 2016
Politics Foster Care Crisis More than a decade after the courts ordered the state to clean up its foster care program, kids are still left rootless, vulnerable. by Susanna Ray for InvestigateWest / September 19, 2016
Seattle is big for new media initiatives Many newspapers are scaling back operations. by Heidi Dietrich / August 13, 2010
Anonymous? Website comments are not all created equal Copies of The Stranger await a shopkeeper in Pioneer Square. by Heidi Dietrich / August 3, 2010
Mind sex and 'Tristan' Conductor Asher Fisch and General Director Speight Jenkins. by Fred Hauptman / August 3, 2010
Environment Oil spill provides Seattle-based 'Grist' with traffic The online environmental publication, which is based in Seattle, attributes part of its growth this year to readership for oil-spill stories. by Heidi Dietrich / July 27, 2010
Tech Seattlepi.com hires writer to fill major loss The <i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer</i>'s rotating globe. by Heidi Dietrich / June 22, 2010