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The Chelan County Sheriff’s Office will utilize federal funding to equip its deputies with several new de-escalation tools.
On Thursday, Chelan County Sheriff Mike Morrison was joined by U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, D-8th District, Chelan County Commissioner Shon Smith, and Public Defense Investigator Juan Miranda outside the Chelan County courthouse to highlight the funding.
8th District Congresswoman Kim Schrier will be in Wenatchee on Thursday to celebrate new federal funding for the Chelan County Sheriff’s Office. The Democrat helped secure just over $713,000 to buy less-lethal equipment that would help deputies overpower subjects who resist arrest.
They entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announcing their arrival. They passed their newborn screening tests. Some made it to their 2-week wellness visits without concern.
Then, without warning, their systems began to shut down. A 7-week-old boy in Maryland developed sudden seizures. An 11-pound girl in Alabama stopped breathing for 20 seconds at a time. A baby boy in Kentucky vomited before becoming lethargic. A brown-haired girl in Texas, not yet 2 weeks old, bled around her belly button.
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) during a House hearing on Tuesday expressed her frustration with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., noting that he "managed to give a 'Go Gators' from the witness table, but not a 'Go [vitamin] K shot.'"
WASHINGTON – Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent decades spreading dangerous disinformation about the safety of vaccines, insisted Tuesday that he’s played no role in the resurgence of measles cases in the United States.
Filling row upon row of chairs tucked between orange-and-black metal shelves piled high with cases of canned vegetables, shrink-wrapped pallets of Dole bananas, and cardboard boxes filled with spaghetti donated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, community leaders gathered Friday to celebrate FISH Community Food Bank’s new warehouse in Ellensburg.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Homeownership has become increasingly out of reach for many families, and a new bill introduced in Congress aims to make buying - and keeping - a home affordable for future generations.
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, M.D., D-Wash., introduced the Permanent Housing Affordability Act, legislation intended to address the housing affordability crisis and increase access to homeownership. Companion legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate by Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware.
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are calling for the removal of two OB-GYNs who were recently appointed to the nation’s top vaccine advisory committee, citing the doctors’ “well-documented history” of anti-vaccine ideology.