The student-run Eyewitness News has been committed to covering the Black Lives Matter protests in downtown Portland. It hasn't been easy. But now, white supremacy groups have EWN in their sights. They're coming for them.
EWN has three rules: Stay safe. Get the story. Come back.
It may not be possible to do all three.
Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Rather like the city itself.
(Volume 2, a boxed set of three Newsroom PDX suspense novels) Includes Rage, Be the Change and In Control.
A former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.
I write about religion, and politics. About race and gender. I believe in the journalism axiom: Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. To which the labor organizer Mother Jones was supposed to have added: And in general raise hell.
Works for me.