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Henry Brannan

@henrybrannan.bsky.social
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Investigative reporter @StreetRoots.bsky.social. All about people and our needs. Signal: henry.3210 henry@streetroots.org Past: Newspapers via WA’s state-funded Murrow News Fellowship, VA NPR stations via Report for America and PBS NewsHour.

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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New: How a storm of revelations about Oregon data centers — including $450m tax breaks this year alone — created a powerful opposition coalition. If you haven’t been following this absolutely wild saga, this story is a good way to get up to speed. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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How revelations like $450M tax breaks created a powerful opposition movement against Oregon data centers
The coalition has already defeated politicians and pushed the state to take action against the exploding industry
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New: Rented e-scooters are increasingly threatening blind Portlanders as companies' safeguards fail. @streetroots.bsky.social tests found the apps’ safe parking verification tools allow users to park the motorized devices entirely blocking the sidewalk. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Rented e-scooters, e-bikes increasingly threaten blind Portlanders as safeguards fail
Street Roots tests found the apps’ safe parking verification tools from parking e-scooters and e-bikes entirely blocking the sidewalk
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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity. The calls to destroy the mobile camera towers come as public frustration over the surveillance tech — and what it is used for — has boiled over.
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Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity — and real life
The competition inspired copy-cat vandalism around the city as people targeted the surveillance infrastructure.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New: As smoke swallowed the PNW in early Aug, health officials warned of its harms and told people to stay inside. But jobs prevent hundreds of thousands of Oregonians from following that advice. As climate change promises more and more smoke, what do they do? www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Jobs prevent hundreds of thousands of Oregonians from following health officials' wildfire smoke advice. What do they do?
While the state's worker protections for smoke and heat are better than most, labor leaders warn of lives being meaningfully shortened due to smoke exposure
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
New: Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity — and real life “A few nights ago we decided to challenge ourselves and wreck four camera towers in one night.” @streetroots.bsky.social www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity — and real life
The competition inspired copy-cat vandalism around the city as people targeted the surveillance infrastructure.
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Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Spoke w @henrybrannan.bsky.social @streetroots.bsky.social about anti surveillance tech in PDX. My AITrustControl.com podcast research informed my comments: “Transparency around surveillance tech use may serve to paper over [concerns/probs wo fostering] meaningful agency or control over its use.”
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Portland anarchists play camera destruction bingo as surveillance infrastructure explodes in popularity — and real life
The competition inspired copy-cat vandalism around the city as people targeted the surveillance infrastructure.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Nathaniel VerGow stepped into one of the region’s hardest jobs when he was approved to lead Multnomah County’s homelessness agency in April. Then it kept getting harder. He joined @streetroots.bsky.social last week to talk abt the excess of challenges he faces. www.streetroots.org/housing/2026...
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The Portland area’s battle against homelessness is only getting harder. Here’s how the leader of Multnomah County’s homelessness agency is taking on the challenges.
Street Roots spent an hour talking with the new director about his strategy to house people despite the challenges
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW: A first-of-its-kind largescale study is now underway looking at how Oregon laws that criminalize consensual sex work are impacting sex workers and survivors of sex trafficking. The grassroots effort kicks off a pathway to decriminalization. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Study will investigate impacts of Oregon laws that criminalize consentual sex work
NOTE: If you are experiencing trafficking, sexual violence or domestic violence, you can get help by contacting Call to Safety’s 24/7 phone line at 503-235-5333 to talk with a confidential and non-jud...
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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Between 1991 and 2024, a dozen studies concluded that many more people could benefit if Low-Income Housing Tax Credit funds were spent on rental vouchers, which let consumers, rather than the government, decide which landlords get tax subsidies. www.opb.org/article/2026...
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A low-income housing program is pouring big money into housing many Oregonians can’t afford
Nearly 2,000 of Portland’s subsidized units sat vacant and unused at last count. The same situation has repeated from Seattle to the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver. Economists and other academic res...
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New: PDX Food Forest is waging war on lawns. But that's just the start. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Portland Food Forest is waging a war on lawns. But that’s only the start.
The scrappy edible landscaping nonprofit has its eyes set on larger public projects to expand access to healthy food and permaculture knowledge
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
NEW: The Portland area is headed for a "catastrophic" housing/homelessness funding cliff that could cause thousands of people to lose their housing and would leave the region with billions less to house the growing numbers of people experiencing homelessness. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Despite success, homelessness funding could collapse without new voter support
Metro's Supportive Housing Services tax has far exceeded its goals. But records show voters are unlikely to support a new measure.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Come to learn the findings of a nearly decade-long OSU research project on what is causing the Willamette's harmful bacterial bloom problem. Stay to find out how it all started with a chance encounter and a budding friendship. @streetroots.bsky.social www.streetroots.org/environment/...
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Restoring Ross Island is the solution to curbing toxic bacterial blooms in the Willamette, researchers say
The problem is getting worse but researchers have a plan to address it via changes to the Ross Island lagoon
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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The Pacific lamprey is about 450 million years old and is an essential part of many Native nations' lives. Last month, about a thousand people gathered to celebrate the eel-like fish and raise awareness of efforts to save it from regional extinction.
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Yakama Nation celebrates Pacific lamprey at Willamette Falls event for the 450 million-year-old fish
The 450 million year old fish are a key part of regional native nations’ lives but face regional extinction
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Late last month, about a thousand people gathered in Oregon City for Yakama Nation's Pacific lamprey celebration and feast. @streetroots.bsky.social was there and spent the day before gathering the 450M year old fish with members at Willamette Falls. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Yakama Nation host event to celebrate Pacific lamprey
The 450 million year old fish are a key part of regional native nations’ lives but face regional extinction
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
"Oregon’s deep, hidden history of slavery" @streetroots.bsky.social reviewed historical laws and records, and talked to half a dozen historians to highlight the largely unknown history of slavery in the Pacific Northwest, especially Oregon. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Oregon's deep, hidden history of slavery
Oregon’s founding fathers were enslavers, and dozens of people were enslaved in the state.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
NEW: Portland sex worker-led groups are building power and community to overcome the unique mix of challenges they face. The June 2 celebration came as decriminalization efforts have stalled, police harassment has intensified and groups face huge funding cuts. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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International Whores’ Day builds community, fights deadly stigma
The 2nd annual event saw hundreds get together to socialize and strategize around sex workers' rights
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fun FYI: Sarah Wolf and I won 1st place for "Business & Economics Reporting - Large" from SPJ Region 10 for a series we did on the impacts of Trump tariffs on the SW WA shipping economy! (And reporting I did on a wave of bankruptcies hitting WA apple farmers won 2nd!) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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2025 SPJ awards.docx
SPJ Region 10 2025 EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM AWARDS AT LARGE AUDIO MAGAZINES PHOTO & DESIGN VIDEO WRITING GENERAL EXCELLENCE EVERGREEN STATE A-MARK AWARDS AT LARGE At Large: Column First Pl...
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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A massive data center is the planned recipient of green energy generated by a $3.3 billion project long opposed by Yakama Nation.
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'It's not built yet': Yakama Nation fights $3.3B energy project and data center development on sacred site
Yakama Nation and its allies have been fighting to stop the project for nearly a decade. New information shows the project is intended to feed the “world's greenest” data center
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Toastie @btoastie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Remember that pumped hydro project sited on a Yakama sacred site? The one the developer said would power 500K Oregon and Washington homes?? The one that was supposedly critical to meeting WA's renewable energy goals??? JK it's actually for a data center. Green colonialism has been a scam all along.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
NEW: Yakama Nation has spent nearly a decade fighting a $3.3B hydro project on a Columbia Gorge sacred site. Now, @streetroots.bsky.social confirmed the landowner intends for the project to pair with "the world’s greenest 1GW+ hyperscale data center" on the site. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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'It's not built yet': Yakama Nation fights $3.3B energy project and data center development on sacred site
Yakama Nation and its allies have been fighting to stop the project for nearly a decade. New information shows the project is intended to feed the “world's greenest” data center
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez speaking on the house floor yesterday⬇️ about the findings of my investigation into who is buying up $100m+ in land in WA’s 2nd poorest county, then ending public access. “Our local economies and ways of life are at risk.” - MGP www.columbian.com/news/2026/ma...
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German royals control 7.3% of Wahkiakum County
ELOCHOMAN RIVER VALLEY — An investment company co-founded by a 21st-century German prince is joining other timber industry goliaths in buying up and shutting down access to tens of thousands of acres
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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Who is Nathaniel VerGow, Multnomah County's newly appointed leader of its Homeless Services Department? Documents show the former social worker effectively ran homelessness programs in LA, but he's leaving his former employer amid its disarray.
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Who is Nathaniel VerGow, the county's new homeless services leader?
Documents show the former social worker effectively ran homelessness programs in LA, but he's leaving his former employer amid its disarray
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Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Meet Street Roots' new investigative reporter, Henry Brannan. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Henry Brannan joins Street Roots as new investigative reporter
Brannan returns to Street Roots as an investigative reporter after working for PBS, NPR stations and print newspapers.
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Doug Bock Clark @dougbockclark.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has been wielding its vast power to transform the midterm elections. This is the untold story of Trump’s efforts to, as he has called it, “take over” the midterms.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Who is the new head of Multnomah County’s Homeless Services Department? I went down the Nathaniel VerGow rabbit hole last week to bring you this early sketch: “Is Nathaniel VerGow ditching a sinking ship, or bringing a much-needed lifeboat?” www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Who is Nathaniel VerGow, the county's new homeless services leader?
Documents show the former social worker effectively ran homelessness programs in LA, but he's leaving his former employer amid its disarray
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
1/5 - Job update: I’m now an investigative reporter at Street Roots! I sent my first official pitch to SR about 6 yrs ago. Its editors then spent the next 1.5 yrs schooling me, before sending me off to jobs at PBS NewsHour, NPR stations and beyond. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Gonna put links below to some work from my last job that I never got around to sharing but am proud of. A German prince, an $85m technicality, strange bedfellow lobbying campaigns and the project to drill a 2000'+ deep tunnel into a Yakama Nation sacred site ⬇️ www.columbian.com/news/2026/ma...
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German royals control 7.3% of Wahkiakum County
ELOCHOMAN RIVER VALLEY — An investment company co-founded by a 21st-century German prince is joining other timber industry goliaths in buying up and shutting down access to tens of thousands of acres
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Pres. Trump's budget maintains many Columbia salmon recovery programs — despite huge cuts throughout '25. Insiders told me the cuts brought together a wide-ranging group of powerful interests to ask Congress to restore funding. WA's powerful delegation delivered. www.columbian.com/news/2026/fe...
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Trump budget maintains many Columbia River salmon, environment programs — despite dramatic proposed cuts
Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026 federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and biologists feared.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
USFS is weighing whether to extend a temporary 2025 ban on commercial huckleberry harvests in Gifford Pinchot. The ban followed decades of advocacy by Native nations motivated by significant harms to berry habitat, gatherer safety and treaty-reserved rights. www.columbian.com/news/2026/ja...
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Forest Service seeks feedback on Gifford Pinchot commercial huckleberry harvest
The U.S. Forest Service announced a new public survey Wednesday to investigate the impacts of its 2025 ban on commercial huckleberry harvests in Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
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Toastie @btoastie.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My latest essay for HCN critically interrogates the phrase "time immemorial," which Indigenous affairs reporters like me sometimes overuse. www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/...
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What does ‘time immemorial’ really mean? - High Country News
If you’ve seen the phrase time immemorial used repeatedly in Indigenous affairs reporting, there are some compelling reasons why.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
NEW: WA's Congressional delegation asked President Trump to approve the state's expedited emergency declaration today. The ask comes as the Cowlitz + other rivers flood. But also amid the politicization of disaster aid. The White House told TDN it hasn't received the request. tdn.com/news/local/g...
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Murray, Cantwell, more ask feds to expedite WA emergency declaration, cite Cowlitz River floods
If approved by Trump, the declaration would mean Washington could access federal support.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Officials in timber-dependent counties around SW WA say the state's new rule expanding no-logging zones around some streams amounts to an economic siege waged from Olympia. “They just want us to be able to make their beds and flip their burgers..." www.columbian.com/news/2025/de...
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Rural Southwest Washington counties take multimillion-dollar tax hit from policy limiting loggable land by streams
Officials in timber-dependent counties around Southwest Washington say the state Forest Practices Board’s new rule expanding no-logging zones around some streams amounts to an economic siege.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New: Global ag giant Nutrien is looking to build a $500m-$1b Longview fertilizer export plant in 2027, company officials told TDN. The decision had been seen as a test between the U.S. and Canada of who could offer more to woo investment. tdn.com/news/local/b...
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Ag giant eyes long-abandoned Longview port Berth 4
Port officials aim to finalize a lease in early 2026 for the $500 million to $1 billion project.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
This is truly mind boggling... Amazon is the US' 2nd biggest employer and aims to have robots running 75% of its operations. What will happen to the people they employed? What will happen to the US economy as its consumer spending backbone takes this hit?
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New: Skamania County has tied its previous search and rescue record with more than 2 months left in 2025. The costly rescues have compounded the county's fiscal crisis and pushed the sheriff to try to fine "reckless or negligent" recreationists who call for rescue. www.columbian.com/news/2025/oc...
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Skamania County eyes penalties as it ties rescues record of 67 so far this year
Skamania County is on pace to set a new record for search and rescues this year. The 67 rescues conducted so far in 2025 already tie the previous record.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The $31b Columbia River shipping industry is feeling the impacts of President Donald Trump’s effort to remake the U.S. economy to be less reliant on imports. The effects have been mixed for SW WA — leaving uneasiness in the place of the outright fear. www.columbian.com/news/2025/oc...
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SW WA shipping industry feels impacts of Trump’s effort to remake U.S. economy
The $31 billion Columbia River shipping industry is feeling the impacts of President Donald Trump’s effort to remake the U.S. economy to be less reliant on imports.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New: How do the fish health advisories that inform anglers of the dangers lurking in their catch start? With a small team of state researchers, and some 911 calls reporting aliens on the water, as it turns out: www.columbian.com/news/2025/oc...
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Ecology researchers work to update Columbia River fish advisories — but face new challenges in climate change
STEVENSON — The harvest moon’s reflection danced through the churning wake of Jakub Bednarek’s 16-foot aluminum jet boat on a recent night along the Columbia River.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
1/2 "Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven as an avenue for profit-making. The recent wave of deals and partnerships involving the two are escalating concerns that an increasingly.. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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OpenAI, Nvidia Fuel $1 Trillion AI Market With Web of Circular Deals
A wave of deals and partnerships are escalating concerns that the trillion-dollar AI boom is being propped up by interconnected business transactions.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New: A ban on commercial huckleberry harvest in Gifford Pinchot this year was a success for conservation and Native nations' treaty-reserved rights. But with the ban set to expire before next harvest, will the Forest Service continue it? www.columbian.com/news/2025/oc...
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Huckleberry harvest thrives after ban — a win for conservation and Native rights in Gifford Pinchot
The first huckleberry season since the U.S. Forest Service banned commercial harvesting in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest was a resounding success for conservation of the berries, as well as Nati
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New: Killing sea lions has become an increasingly popular solution to salmon extinction as agreements fall apart & Trump guts funding. The 2020 permit allowing the killings generated 22k+ comments, only ~200 in favor. That same permit received 1 comment this month. www.columbian.com/news/2025/se...
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Feds greenlight killing more sea lions to protect endangered salmon as controversy fades
The federal permit that allows Northwest states and some Native nations to trap and kill salmon-eating sea lions in the Columbia River was reapproved late last week.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New: Last year I covered a 1.1-mile swim across the Columbia, and the characters that made it a cherished tradition. Along the way, I accidentally promised some of them that I'd join this year... last weekend, after a year of training, I did. www.columbian.com/news/2025/se...
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Dispatches from the field: Columbian’s Columbia River reporter takes a dip into subject matter
CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — As I stood on the edge of a sternwheeler about a mile out into the Columbia River last weekend, I might have started to question why I thought it would be a good idea to swim acr
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
New: A look at the political tightrope walk that keeps federal $ flowing into the Columbia River shipping system. The $ is key in keeping the system globally competitive at a time when intl businesses are rethinking trade relationships w/ the US amid growing costs. www.columbian.com/news/2025/au...
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Southwest WA ports and shipping advocates dodge politics to bring home federal dollars
Ryan Hart was at Portland International Airport last month waiting to board a flight for Washington, D.C., when he saw Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The bird flu virus that has beset dairy farms since early last year may be spreading through the air in so-called milking parlors and through contaminated wastewater (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/h...
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Bird Flu May Be Airborne on Dairy Farms, Scientists Report
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
New: Emergency response and tsunami modeling officials said this week's 8.8 quake off Russia's Pacific coast is a warning to the PNW about its own looming megaquakes — and the need for the region to prepare. www.columbian.com/news/2025/au...
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‘Wake-up call’: Officials say giant Pacific earthquake serves as warning for local megaquakes, tsunamis
Daniel Eungard gets a handful of tsunami alerts each month because of his job running the tsunami hazards program for the Washington Geological Survey. Most of them are nothing.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
SCOOP: The manifests for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador contain the names of dozens of people who have not been acknowledged in any way by the US government. Immigration experts following the case say they don't know where these people are www.404media.co/flight-manif...
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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
New: Environmental group Save Our Wild Salmon released its first Columbia River Hot Water Report of the year Wednesday. It comes as water temperatures throughout the basin this year have *already* surpassed the key 68-degree threshold for salmon survival. www.columbian.com/news/2025/ju...
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Columbia Basin’s salmon are in hot water, literally, says report from Save Our Wild Salmon
Environmental group Save Our Wild Salmon released its first Columbia River Hot Water Report of the year Wednesday, as water temperatures throughout the basin this year have already surpassed the key 6
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Seattle Times sharing the jetty story:
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
After 6 yrs, 32k boulders and $172M, the Army Corps' rebuild of the Columbia River South Jetty is almost done. The barrier allows ships carrying $31B in goods a year to pass the dangerous estuary where 2,000,000 gallons of water crash into the Pacific every second. www.columbian.com/news/2025/ju...
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After six years, 32,000 boulders and $172M, the Columbia River jetty rehab is almost done
CLATSOP SPIT — For most of the past two years, Jesse Allen has worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week operating a crane to move sedan-sized boulders miles out into the mouth of the Columbia River.
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Mississippi River shippers got a 6 day tour of Columbia River shipping system last week. The tour stretched from Cape Disappointment to Lewiston, ID. It was aimed at building a united voice to advocate for US grain shippers' interests. www.columbian.com/news/2025/ju...
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Mississippi River shippers get weeklong tour of Columbia River shipping system
KALAMA — A group of Mississippi River shipping industry figures were treated to a tour of the Columbia-Snake river grain export system last week by the Washington Association of Wheat Growers alongsid
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Henry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New: SW Washington steel importers are hurting after President Trump doubled import taxes to 50% earlier this month. Local importers and ports say the move will lead to higher consumer costs and layoffs in associated industries. Projections back that up. www.columbian.com/news/2025/ju...
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Southwest Washington steel importers hurting after Trump doubled import tax to 50 percent
Southwest Washington steel importers are feeling the pain from a Trump administration move earlier this month to double the import taxes they pay to 50 percent.
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