Daniel F. Le Ray is an award-winning content marketer, writer and editor based in Washington state. He has served as editor of several publications, from college alumni magazines to Europe's largest communications journal, worked with freelance clients ranging from startup app developers to food services providers and healthcare consultancies, and been an in-house marketer for international online marketplaces.
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An interview with Weather Channel correspondent Dave Malkoff, an Emmy Award-winning documentary maker and science and technology journalist. Malkoff's work includes the films Assignment: Iraq and Alaska: State of Emergency, which tells the story of climate change in the country’s largest state.
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I listened to Blackstar twice on January 9, the day after it came out and a day before David Bowie died. I listened to it a third time on January 11. Between several songs on the album, there are little rustles of paper and breaths, high and close to the mic. During that third listen, those little noises became personal in a way that they weren’t before. Those tiny movements of air now seem like Bowie letting us know that he was still back there, that he was still pulling the strings.
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It's a Thursday night in downtown Seattle. Reflected in the rain-slicked streets are the red and blue lights of a police cruiser.
Inside, an officer is running a records check on an individual carrying a few grams of drugs. The records come back clean: no convictions for violent offenses. The cop gets out of the car and offers the individual two options. One is King County jail. The other is referral to a case manager with LEAD, a pre-arrest program that enables police officers in downtown Seattle and adjacent neighborhoods to redirect low-level drug crime or street prostitution offenders without prior violent convictions into community-based programs.
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