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    Cheers n’ jeers: Renton police operation targets retail theft
    Cheers n’ jeers: Renton police operation targets retail...
    By Andy Hobbs • November 12, 2022 5:30 am

    Cheers to the Renton Police Department for its recent operation to thwart organized retail theft.

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    Homeless encampments like this one in Auburn can be found throughout King County. File photo
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    By Andy Hobbs • November 4, 2022 3:30 pm

    I didn’t truly understand the nuances of homelessness until I started writing about it. I had accepted a reporting position…

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    Christine Hendrickson shared her post-incarceration journey as part of a panel of speakers July 14 at the Kirkland Chamber Foundation’s 2022 Kirkland Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Symposium. This year’s program focused on workforce re-entry for previously incarcerated people and the barriers they face. Photo by Andy Hobbs/Sound Publishing
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    By Andy Hobbs • July 20, 2022 2:30 pm

    Trauma and the stigma of prison create barriers for those who are trying to reenter society and atone for past mistakes.

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    King County and Public Health have turned a former Econo Lodge motel into an emergency isolation/quarantine facility on Central Avenue in Kent. File photo
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    By Andy Hobbs • April 8, 2020 6:25 pm

    County has provided 60 motel vouchers so far for quarantining homeless individuals.

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    Joint statement from the mayors of Auburn, Kent, Renton, Federal Way, Tukwila, Enumclaw, Algona and Pacific was issued Sunday, March 22, in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Courtesy of City of Kent
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    By Andy Hobbs • March 22, 2020 7:50 pm

    Update – 6 p.m. Monday, March 23

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    Renton resident Joe Copenhaver and his pet crow, T-Rex, share a moment Nov. 10. Photo by Andy Hobbs
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    By Andy Hobbs • November 27, 2019 1:30 am

    Renton resident makes fast friends with a crow he rescued last spring.

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