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Sammamish Native and Community Leader Lin Yang Launches Campaign for Sammamish City Council

March 26, 2025

Lin Yang, a long-time community leader and youth advocate in Sammamish, announced on March 26, 2025, that he is running for Sammamish City Council. Yang is the first city council candidate in Sammamish’s history to have grown up in the city. He graduated from...

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Sammamish students step up to cover newsy suburb

March 7, 2025

Last Monday I was in a Zoom call with reporters and editors pitching stories, hearing updates on site traffic and learning about last month’s most-read stories online. I’ve sat through many such meetings but this one was particularly inspiring. What was different was...

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A contentious local election revealed an information gap. High school reporters stepped up to fill it.

December 14, 2020

Last fall as Facebook geared up to fight misinformation related to the 2020 elections, residents of Sammamish, Washington, realized they already had a problem. They were in the midst of a contentious city council election season, and misinformation was running...

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