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What happens when an entire country bans youth under 16 from social media?
That’s what Australia is evaluating in the first year of a national experiment that could have global implications for policy around youth and technology.
Jeff Hancock, a Stanford University researcher working with the Australian government to implement and evaluate the ban, visited Seattle on Tuesday for a presentation and panel discussion hosted by Seattle Children’s hospital.
U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier visited Cle Elum on Wednesday to talk with officials from HopeSource and Kittitas County’s emergency operations.
She made her first stop to meet with HopeSource at its construction site for Teanaway Court, an affordable housing development that will consist of 41 units and a 66-seat daycare.
“As the community knows better than anybody, housing has gotten unaffordable,” said Schrier, a Democrat who serves in Washington’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
LEAVENWORTH — Congresswoman Kim Schrier visited Leavenworth on July 10 to visit local businesses, talk with leaders about conditions in the Enchantments, and tour Cascade Medical to discuss support for rural healthcare.
Schrier’s visit started with a tour of downtown Leavenworth led by Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Troy Campbell, stopping at the new Willkommen Center and businesses along Front Street.
Two members of Congress have called on federal officials to address what they described as “a growing and preventable public health crisis” of families refusing the long-standard vitamin K shot for their newborns, which has led to some of those babies suffering uncontrollable bleeding and even dying.
Congresswoman Kim Schrier comes to Leavenworth to discuss with local leaders about the Enchantment's conditions.
King County is receiving more than $1 million of federal funding to upgrade its search-and-rescue helicopter.
U.S. Congresswoman Kim Schrier joined the Sheriff’s Office and King County Councilmembers on Tuesday at the King County International Airport to celebrate the over $1,000,000 in federal funding that she helped secure to upgrade a rescue helicopter.
When the mother arrived with her newborn, blood oozing from the umbilical-cord stump, Dr. Jessica Kirk and a nurse were alone in a small pediatric emergency room in Florida.
After two decades in medicine, Dr. Kirk, a pediatric hospitalist now practicing in Fairhope, Ala., usually has an idea of possible diagnoses within moments of meeting a patient. But she hadn’t seen this before. As the nurse took vital signs, Dr. Kirk called her medical director.
King County’s life‑saving rescue helicopters are getting a major boost, thanks to more than $1 million in new federal funding that leaders said will pay off in safer, faster responses to emergencies across western Washington.
The money, secured by U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, will upgrade one of the King County Sheriff’s Office’s (KCSO) rescue helicopters — part of the region’s only full‑time patrol and rescue air unit. The helicopter is a critical tool for hoist rescues in rugged terrain, wildfire response, flood evacuations, and other natural disasters.
The lone ranger is alone no more.
A year after the Enchantments became a nationwide symbol of understaffing and overcrowding on public lands, the prized wilderness destination in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest outside of Leavenworth will see more rangers, trail crews and other stewards this year through a combination of renewed Forest Service hiring and partnership arrangements with recreation nonprofits.
For more than a decade, Dr. Joseph Mercola cautioned parents against a potentially lifesaving shot of vitamin K for their newborn babies: “Vitamin K shots are completely unnecessary for your newborn.”
But now, in a break from his past warnings, Mercola is saying he no longer believes that.