NEW: Insurance giants are hiding billions meant to lower Americans’ drug costs.
Our year-long investigation details how CVS, UnitedHealth, and Cigna created shell companies to evade reform efforts and hide payments received from drugmakers.
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Good morning, Seattle's Public Safety commitee meeting has just begun, and there are over 100 people signed up for public comment. A reminder, today is the second discussion of the proposed SODA/SOAP legislation adding exclusion zones to many neighborhoods in the city.
NEW: 8 months after the city of Seattle demolished the Black Lives Memorial Garden in Cal Anderson Park, records show Mayor Bruce Harrell directly ordered the controversial decision. The parks department spent $89,000 on the removal. Via @RealChangeNews https://t.co/kIWFT7VBxp
NEW: WA State Patrol admitted to losing an unknown amount of emails & public records after a data migration failure. Communications Director Chris Loftis told Cascade PBS in an email “the specific extent of unrecoverable emails is yet to be fully realized."https://t.co/m8qRGmYVmv
Spokane County is prepared to sue the state of Washington, alleging failure to properly detain and rehabilitate juvenile offenders.
Overcrowding in a facility by 30% led DCYF to transfer 43 men to prison with no notice, an illegal move a judge ruled.
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@AGOWA candidate and former U.S. Attorney Nick Brown calling out state Sen. @ElectManka for contributing $250K to her own campaign last week: https://t.co/qO41Og5CBl
BREAKING NEWS: We learned last night that our millionaire opponent just put $250,000 of her own money into her campaign in a last minute attempt to buy the Attorney General's seat.
We cannot let that happen.
This was too in the weeds for my story last week, but I'm 99% sure that interim SPD Chief Sue Rahr's email clarifying that police can, in fact, interview juvenile witnesses without a lawyer appears to get the law wrong on juvenile searches.
ICYMI: I wrote last week on this July 9 email that Sue Rahr sent out, which took a different tack than her previous public comments that had blamed this law for hindering the Garfield shooting investigation https://t.co/TJzocUKl4m
I wasn’t able to say much earlier this week about the passing of @mattsdriscoll because I was still in shock and grieving. But there are a few things I want people to know about him.
Tacoma still has the Rainiers and the Narrows Bridge, but our City of Destiny has a hole in our hearts at the loss of Matt Driscoll. What a big heart and an insightful pen he gave us. I miss him already.
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