Fifteen Years Ago, Tim Krautkraemer was a sick kid who just wanted to play football. The story behind the movement and the lawsuit that now protects the health of thousands of people in Washington and Idaho.
By Tim Connor (originally published March 2, 2009)
(Editor’s note, 8.4.2014: Tim Krautkraemer continues to thrive in good health. After spending two years in the Teach for America program, as a Spanish teacher and football coach in Mississippi, Tim spent the past year teaching Spanish at a middle school in Bloomington, IN. This fall he’ll be at the University of Texas, beginning work on his master’s degree in Cultural Education.)
A few months before Spokane was introduced to the Center for Justice, eastern Washington was introduced to Tim Krautkraemer. Continue reading Every Breath He Takes→
John Kerry, Edward Snowden, and America’s Moral Injuries
By Larry Shook
Maybe it’s just my own PTSD talking, but I don’t think Secretary of State John Kerry is the first U.S. cabinet official in my lifetime to be guilty of cruel irony. Continue reading A Prayer for the Secretary→
What my mens group taught me about politics, science, and climate change.
By Tim Connor
As Marco Rubio, the ambitious U.S. Senator from Florida recently demonstrated, people will say almost anything to get elected. In Rubio’s case, it matters not that we are only decades away from seeing large tracts of his home state recovered by the Atlantic Ocean. Continue reading Tipping Points→
Dan Treecraft may have been the most difficult friend a person could have. He was also irreplaceable, and widely beloved.
By Jamie Borgan (September 4, 2011)
One of my earliest memories of Dan Treecraft comes from a wedding, where he told me I might get strawberry diabetes if I didn’t stop eating strawberries off of the buffet table. Continue reading A Splendid Enigma→
Stories, dreams, and landscapes from the Inland Northwest
