Police Blotter, March 25 - 31, 2022

Anacortes Police 6 minutes read
Anacortes Police investigated several reports of car prowls and gasoline thefts this week. 

The End of the Covid Emergency Could Mean a Huge Loss of Health Insurance

Art Shotwell 5 minutes read
It is a perilous time to throw low- and middle-income Americans off the insurance cliff: A new omicron subvariant is spreading, and a program that provided coronavirus testing and covid-19 treatment at no cost to the uninsured has expired.

Travel in the Time of Covid: Getting There Is Easy — It’s Getting Home That’s Hard

Art Shotwell 5 minutes read
The part of my London visit that I didn’t plan was testing positive for the coronavirus. I couldn’t get back to the U.S., but the U.K. didn’t care what I did or where I went.

Distracted Driving Rate Falls in Washington

Art Shotwell 3 minutes read
Washington’s distracted driving rate fell in 2021, from 9.4 percent in 2020 to 6.9 percent, according to the Washington Traffic Safety Commission’s (WTSC) Annual Distracted Driving Observation Survey.  

I no longer grade my students’ work – and I wish I had stopped sooner

Art Shotwell 7 minutes read
I’ve been teaching college English for more than 30 years. Four years ago, I stopped putting grades on written work, and it has transformed my teaching and my students’ learning. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner.

As Red States Push Strident Abortion Bans, Other Restrictions Suddenly Look Less Extreme

Art Shotwell 5 minutes read
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has yet to make clear its stand on Roe v. Wade. But state lawmakers aren’t waiting to consider a variety of extreme measures: bills that would ban abortions in cases of ectopic pregnancies, allow rapists’ families to object to terminating a victim’s pregnancy, or prohibit the procedure in the case of fetal disability. Do these proposals make the less extreme restrictions seem more mainstream?