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anna griffin

@agpnw.bsky.social
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I'm the PNW bureau chief at The New York Times. Send me story ideas, complaints, venting, cute dog pics. I may also comment on the Yankees and the Tar Heels, but always in a measured tone.

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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Emerging from a brief social media disengagement - which I highly recommend - with some professional news: I've started a new job as the Pacific Northwest bureau chief for The New York Times. Looking for story ideas, news alerts, background info, pet theories, restaurant recs, travel tips etc.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Lost Patients is a stupendous piece of reporting. And I edited Salmon Wars, so … oh hey, wow, that’s so cool! Yay us!
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Happy opening day to all who celebrate. If you need me over the next seven months, you can find me worshiping at the Church of Baseball.
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a man in a new york mets jersey is shaking hands with another man
ALT: a man in a new york mets jersey is shaking hands with another man
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"In interviews with OPB, almost a dozen current and former Forest Service employees said they feared this loss of workers will be catastrophic for the fire season ahead."
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Trump’s firing of Forest Service workers raises concerns about wildfires in Oregon, the West
Some recently fired Forest Service employees were part of a backup team of certified firefighters.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How much news has been happening during the Trump administration? OPB's Tiffany Camhi takes a look at just one area: education. 20 major policy changes in the first 30 days.
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Dizzying changes: 20 shifts to education in the Trump administration’s first month
The Trump administration has unleashed a flurry of cuts and changes to government programs. Here’s a summary of just how the changes are affecting education - and how the Northwest has responded.
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Have information you think the public should know about the Census Bureau or other parts of the federal government? I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available via the encrypted messaging app Signal at hansi.01
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The best thing about the Super Bowl is that it means baseball is near.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Right now summed up in one story: www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Crook County school board ousts superintendent after 6 months
The school board put Melissa Skinner on paid administrative leave Monday.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I would like to read a scientific study analyzing the strange phenomenon in which people get in line at an airport Starbucks and completely forget how to order coffee.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Joking aside, I kinda think this is exactly how you want important votes over leadership to go with the new-and-maybe-improved-who-actually-knows-for-sure Portland City Council. Messy but mostly in the open? With the political and philosophical lines clear to everyone paying attention?
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I like to imagine Ted Wheeler, Charlie Hales, Sam Adams, Tom Potter and the ghost of Vera Katz are sitting in a bar somewhere watching this together. And laughing. So hard.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Are you like me, and you're feeling very, very tired headed into the end of the year, and then you edited this smart rundown of all the big PNW news from 2024, and then you felt even more very, very tired but at least remembered why?
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Rene Gonzalez, who came into office as a city commissioner largely on a platform of being supportive of Portland police, has now threatened to sue the city because police have not made an arrest in an arson case involving his father's car.
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Outgoing Portland commissioner threatens to sue the city over slow arson investigation
Days before leaving office, Portland City Commissioner Rene Gonzalez threatened to sue the city – accusing its police force of failing to fully investigate an alleged arson at his home.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This would hurt us at OPB, but it was absolutely decimate smaller public media orgs in rural areas. If I was a cynic, I’d say that is maybe part of the plan: remove anything that isn’t non-mainstream propagandist media in places that already tilt right. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b...
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NPR and PBS Stations Brace for Funding Battle Under Trump (Gift Article)
Republicans in Congress have tried to defund public media for decades. With the help of Elon Musk, could they finally make good on their threat?
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This story is the best thing I've edited all week. “I just hope everybody’s kind to me next year and nobody is bullying me,” wished 9-year-old Crosby.
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For kids who feel left out, Bend’s ‘Sandra Claus is a hit’
A lesser-known member of the Claus family has lately been spotted far from the North Pole in Central Oregon.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
"City officials throughout Oregon say they need more leeway to clear homeless camps as the state grapples with a housing crisis that shows no signs of abating. Now they’re taking aim at a 2021 law they say stands in their way."
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A fight over Oregon’s laws on homeless camping looms in 2025
City leaders around the state want more authority to remove encampments they deem problematic. Homeless advocates say it's a distraction from real solutions.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
OK, so he got one thing right.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Weird day to be a Tar Heel.
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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 11/12/2024
If you missed it, here's the OPB story www.opb.org/article/2024... Also, if you care about REAL local news and journalism, you should support the outlets you care about. bikeportland.org/support
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AI slop is already invading Oregon’s local journalism
The Ashland Daily Tidings — established as a newspaper in 1876 — ceased operations in 2023, but if you were a local reader, you may not have known because of an elaborate scam using artificial intelli...
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is your reminder to listen to Hush — the best show you've never heard because, well, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are lower class podcasters: www.opb.org/show/hush/
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OPB: Hush
Hush
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is the worst Terminator sequel yet.
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iain @maccoinnich.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
With Literary Arts and Mother Foucault’s both moving to locations across the street from each other on SE Grand, we’re close to seeing a bookstore district emerge www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...
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Mother Foucault’s Bookshop Needs Your Help Moving
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The actual people hurt by decisions like this would be the smallest stations in rural areas that depend more heavily on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The biggest value of public media over the past 2 decades is serving growing news deserts where for profit media has collapsed.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Probably one of the biggest environmental discussions in the waning days of the Biden administration is what will happen with Oregon's Owyhee Canyonlands.
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Potential for protecting Owyhee Canyonlands takes urgency in final months of Biden administration
More than a million acres of wildlands in Eastern Oregon could be preserved through federal legislation or a monument declaration from the president. This could be the last chance for the Owyhee Canyo...
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This is getting very bad.
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St. Helens police investigate possible abuse of middle schooler; emergency school board meeting called
The St. Helens Police Department said Thursday that it is now investigating a middle school teacher for alleged physical contact with students.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Thoughtful look at the science around water fluoridation and the politics of it in Oregon, the third-least fluoridated state. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Oregon now has 100,000 electric vehicles on the road, a sharp increase from just a few years ago, but also less than half of the state's goal by the end of next year.
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Oregon has registered more than 100,000 electric vehicles
More than 3% of registered vehicles in Oregon are EVs, making up 102,461 electric vehicles.
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Lynne Terry @lynneterry.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Just a reminder to the tens of thousands of Oregon residents who buy their own health insurance. Open enrollment runs Nov. 1 through Jan. 16. But you need to sign up by Dec. 15 to have coverage starting Jan. 1.
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Enrollment in individual health insurance now open through mid-January – Oregon Capital Chronicle
The tens of thousands of Oregonians who buy their own health insurance can now start shopping for the best plan for next year.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
As an e-bike rider, I believe this is true, except it's also quite possible every current e-bike rider dies first because our cities cannot keep the danged bike lanes free of leaves.
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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
As a massive project to build a new bridge across the Columbia River comes closer to reality, the residents of Hayden Island say they're going to get the shortest straw.
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Hayden Island community pushes to be heard as I-5 bridge replacement heads toward reality
The replacement of the Interstate Bridge between Portland and Vancouver will affect many people, but few more than residents of Hayden Island. Many have been voicing their concerns before a public com...
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Small bit of career news. (Do we do that here? Is ‘career news’ rather than ‘personal news’ what we collectively decided back in the Bad Place?) Very excited to go get smarter & come up with new ways to serve OPB’s audience, and yes, I know I need a new headshot.
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
We've got a great job closing soon at OPB: acoordinating editor to run the Northwest News Network, a collaboration of public media orgs across the Pacific Northwest. Msg me at agriffin@opb.org if you are interested or know someone who might be a good candidate workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau....
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Recruitment
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I've been on Bluesky one day, and the content is already so relevant to my life. (Listen to the Yankees and the Mariners on the radio, consistently disappointed by both teams.)
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anna griffin @agpnw.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Oh, hello. Fancy meeting you here. It's going to take me a while to be convinced you're not all Russian bots designed to undermine my trust in civic institutions while also feeding my dopamine addiction for clicks. (I'm not scarred at all by the past few years. NOT AT ALL.)
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