Name: Is this what a Bald Eagle sounds like? by NorthwestNewsNetwork
Duration: 3 s
Description: This is what you have been led to think a bald eagle sounds like ... but it's really the cry of a red-tailed hawk

Proximity to power is an advantage. That’s why interest groups set up shop in Washington, D.C. and in state capitals across the country. But in Olympia, Washington, a few lobbyists, unions and corporations have gone a step further. They’ve bought homes in the historic residential neighborhood that borders the Capitol campus. 

Full story: http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/lobbyists-snare-single-family-homes-near-washington-capitol

Photo by Steve Ringman/ The Seattle Times

Lobbyists Snare Single-Family Homes Near Washington Capitol

With more than 800 beds, Western State Hospital near Tacoma, Washington, is one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the western United States. 

Even so, there’s a long wait list to get in. That’s because there are so many patients taking up beds who are waiting to get out.

More here: https://tinyurl.com/y8pn4dk6

At Western State Hospital, A Waitlist To Get In And A Waitlist To Get Out

The deepening drought in Eastern Oregon is causing some tension between neighbors over how to share the dwindling supply of water for their fields and cattle. 

And the antiquated way that water is shared in the West doesn’t help.

Oregon Ranchers Hit By Drought Are Short Of Irrigation, Grass And Hay

Authorities released the 911 calls and police radio traffic from the incident on Father’s Day in which a man went on a carjacking and shooting spree in the Olympia area. 

A warning, this audio may be upsetting to some listeners.

911 Calls From Father’s Day Carjacking, Shooting Spree

Beginning in 2014, Washington's Health Care Authority began sending patients with severe Traumatic Brain Injury to a private TBI treatment hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called Brookhaven. Once there, the patients were all but forgotten.

In a five-part series, Northwest News Network Olympia Correspondent Austin Jenkins examines how this happened and how the state finally started bringing the patients home.

Photo information: This photo of Steve and Laurie Jenks was taken as they left a wedding in Walla Walla in August 2010. As they headed back to the motel, they were involved in a head-on car crash that left Laurie with a severe brain injury. Photo courtesy Steve Jenks

Brain Injury Series - Part 1

This is what you have been led to think a bald eagle sounds like ... but it's really the cry of a red-tailed hawk

Is this what a Bald Eagle sounds like?

Inslee's out-of-state travel busts budget of State Patrol unit

Part 4: The Aftermath

Part 3: The Cover-up

Part 2: The Reveal

Part 1: The Story

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Is this what a Bald Eagle sounds like?

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