@ryanjhaas.bsky.social
Oregon-based investigative journalist. | Co-founder thewesternedge.media Former OPB. Podcast producer, Bundyville, Dying for a Fight, and Hush. www.ryanhaas.net Tell me secrets on Signal: ryanjhaas.01
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What in the absurdist novel is going on in this White House?
What a trip. Lengthy piece, but I couldn't put it down this morning.
How late could WA ‘millionaires tax’ vote go tonight? House Dems have posted schedule for shifts on who needs to be “on point” when. The latest shifts go from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m., and 7 a.m. to whenever it ends….
EXCLUSIVE: Jay Graber stepping down as CEO of Bluesky www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
"Washington is one of nine states that does not currently levy a personal income tax. Voters have rebuffed such taxes 10 times since 1934, most recently in 2010.
"But Democrats this year see an opening to finally pass a tax aimed at the wealthiest residents."
From @jimbrunner.bsky.social
Oh good it's time for every news org to write the same article we have been reading for a decade about daylight saving time. The definition of "news."
This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from The Western Edge.
It is!
OPB dropped the ball big time dropping hush. But maybe we're all better off now that The Western Edge is here.
Most people also won’t finish your 500-word article. So write at whatever length is appropriate for the subject.
quittin' time, sine die edition
helps quite a bit if I'm being honest
Today’s episode of “Not The Onion.”
This story contains a porn-texting police chief, a money-hungry police union, a nasty mayor’s race, a man in a Waldo costume and the phrase “pig pig pig” — your weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social / me and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social
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Everyone's an editor 😜
A romping weekend read from @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
In the small town of St. Helens, Oregon, where the news media is on life support, corruption thrived.
2,500 pages of new documents have finally revealed the clear story of what happened when Brian Greenway came for Halloweentown.
This story is a great example of the type of work small outlets can do because they aren't chasing clickbait. The attention economy has encouraged journalists for decades to do shallow work, but it's the time-consuming stuff that reveals the truth and holds bad actors accountable.
Publicly, nonprofit Latinos en Spokane is a passionate defender of immigrant and worker rights. Behind the scenes, though, ten workers and contractors interviewed by RANGE described high turnover, toxic working conditions and threats of retaliation:
CNN chats to guest with an ICC arrest warrant on charges including starving children to death
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
We can’t cover everything the AP used to, but also AP coverage of state government here has been sparse for the past decade. The news service shifted focus from serving member papers to surfacing stories for a national/international audience, and local readers paid the cost.
"At least eight Department of Homeland Security officers expressed confusion about several key elements at issue in the case, including actions protected under the First Amendment, what constitutes passive resistance, proper crowd control tactics and their agency’s own use of force policies."
NEWS: Gov. Bob Ferguson canceled parole granted to serial rapist Billy Van Court.
Van Court served 40+ yrs. for violent crimes dating back to ‘83. He obtained parole in Feb. 2026 despite fleeing to OR while on parole in ‘25.
Van Court will now stay behind bars.
Metro Council was about an hour into a work session on Tuesday when the conversation took an unexpected turn.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNmP...
Read more here: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
Yes, to some degree. The company has regularly increased rates since these fires, typically under the banner of wildfire mitigation costs, but the connection between these fire lawsuits and a major uptick in prevention costs to customers are easy to make.
Today in clickbait.
Ahem, I just want to say @ryanjhaas.bsky.social broke the news in @thewesternedge.bsky.social that PacifiCorp now owes Oregonians $1 billion
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