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Brennen Kauffman

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City government reporter for The Gazette. Previously reported in Washington, Idaho, and Ohio. Reluctantly riding the Bo Nix hype train

Colorado Springs
Joined December 2012
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@coloherman
Jerry Herman
11 months
Another Colorado Springs City Council member declines reelection bid (via @blkauffman7, @csgazette) https://t.co/jVj7obfI7g #ColoradoSprings @COSCityCouncil
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Brennen Kauffman
1 year
Save Rockrimmon Library group has packed the City Council Chamber and the City Hall steps in Colorado Springs. The group is asking the council to step in and prevent library branch closure at the end of November
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@NoisyUnion
Noisy Union
2 years
For decades, workers at @TheStranger, @portlandmercury, @EverOutSeattle, @EverOutPortland and @BoldTypeTickets have fostered an alternative voice in Pacific Northwest media. Today, we have asked the upper management at Index Media to voluntarily recognize our union.
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@longviewguild
Longview NewsGuild
2 years
The Daily News just made the change to printing three days a week. The rollout so far has not made us less worried about Lee's short-sighted moves and lack of real investment in our staff. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
@LeeUnions
Unions of Lee Enterprises
2 years
Journalists across the country are speaking out this week against destructive business decisions by media chain Lee Enterprises. Chronic disinvestment and @LeeEntNews' latest move to slash daily printing of many newspapers is a recipe for failure. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
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@CascadePBSUnion
Cascade PBS Union
2 years
Yesterday, Crosscut’s parent company (@CascadePubMedia) announced it intends to lay off five newsroom employees, effective July 1, and replace them with additional video and podcast producers.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
A Kalama City Council member was found guilty of illegally accessing another Council member's email while searching for evidence of a police conspiracy. City leaders call on him to resign https://t.co/erE22xx5WW
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City officials have asked him to resign.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
Part of why I left the Adams-run Post Register was how long they kept us at less than 40 hours a week. That was June 2021. The idea they're still jerking their Bozeman reporters around on basic fair hours and pay is outrageous.
@ynewsguild
Yellowstone News Guild
3 years
We've been bargaining with Adams Publishing since July, but they continue to insist on paying their journalist's poverty wages. We need a fair contract now.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
Laying off one of our paper's ad reps is bad. Doing it in such a brutally abrupt timeline this morning makes it even worse. I stand with the rest of the Longview NewsGuild and our remaining ads workers.
@longviewguild
Longview NewsGuild
3 years
We were horrified to learn today that @LeeEntNews unceremoniously laid off a member of our advertising staff. She and her colleagues have been fighting to join the newsroom union at the Longview Daily News.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
"Over the next five days, Longview School Resource Officer Reece would pose as a special needs student to deceptively ask out the sophomore" Very good reporting from my fellow TDN reporter Matthew to bring this incident to light.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
Back in 2014, a local school resource officer began asking out and harassing a 15-year-old student via text. The officer was removed from the school after her mother issued a complaint but remained with the Longview Police until 2023. https://t.co/e8jLzuwG5V
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This officer has been on the force for 23 years.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
More than 100 people were crossing the Allen Street Bridge in Kelso on Jan. 3, 1923 when it collapsed into the river. At least 20 people were killed. My story on the centennial of one of WA's deadliest disasters:
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Tuesday marks the anniversary of the Allen Street Bridge collapse, estimated to have killed 23 people.
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@longviewguild
Longview NewsGuild
3 years
Our union is growing! Today, the advertising staff of the Longview Daily News has petitioned to join the Longview NewsGuild. We have asked Lee Enterprises for voluntary recognition of their addition, but absent that, there will be an election in the new year. 1/4
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
Aaaand one minute after I tweeted that, the Seattle Times called the race for Perez. Hope everyone is ready for even more coverage of this from @the_daily_news, because this will probably not be a quiet next week.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
Over the last three days, Clark County has counted 64,000 votes and Kent gained a grand total of 266 more votes than Perez. He needs to be up 4,500 votes just to tie her.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
New results from Clark and Thurston countries in #Wa03 give Kent a net gain of 338 votes out of 16,000 counted today. He would need close to 2/3 of the remaining ballots to break his way, which especially in Clark is unlikely...
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
Cowlitz County just posted an update for the WA-03 race. Kent gains another 750 votes on Perez, but his rate of gain had dropped compared to yesterday. Clark County will be the deciding factor going forward and tonight's update will be key to figure out Kent's chances.
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
My estimate is that he needs to beat Perez by at least 4000 votes in the rest of Clark's 45,000 estimated count to catch her. If we don't see a big jump when the count comes out Friday... Kent may be in trouble
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Brennen Kauffman
3 years
Updated voted results from Clark County are a mixed bag for Kent. He gained 126 net votes over MGP, but out of 24,700 that were counted. That's at the low end of the pace he needs for a full comeback, especially with Lewis County almost fully reported.
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