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A Year of Lies, Excuses and Inaction: Washington DOH’s Accountability Fiasco
By Ben Tindall, Executive Director, Save Family Farming The Save Family Farming team has spent over a year watching the WA State Department of Health (DOH) turn a fairly simple violation complaint into a spectacular, jaw-dropping example of bureaucratic foot-dragging, ...
Public Money, Public Accountability – Part Three
Who Holds the Grantmaker Accountable? Why Save Family Farming Is Calling for Independent Review By Ben Tindall, Executive Director, Save Family Farming At some point, this stopped being about a logo. It stopped being only about how the anti-farming activist ...
Denver listened to farmworkers. Will Olympia follow suit?
Unintended consequences of new farm overtime laws create opportunity for legislators to choose practical help over political gamesmanship By Dillon Honcoop The results of a newly-released Washington State University survey of hundreds of farmworkers across the state beg an important ...
Public Money, Public Accountability – Part Two
The Price of Plenty: When Public Money, Manipulated Narratives, and False Assurances Collide By Ben Tindall, Executive Director, Save Family Farming In Part One of this series, I explained how a complaint about the unauthorized use of the Washington State ...
Public Money, Public Accountability – Part One
A Year of Questions, Delays, Broken Assurances, and Double Speak By Ben Tindall, Executive Director, Save Family Farming It all started with a logo. Last year, Save Family Farming discovered the official Washington State Department of Health (DOH) logo appearing ...
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