Kale Williams
@sfkale
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Currently: @axios local in Portland. Formerly: @KGWNews @Oregonian @sfchronicle. Author of a book about a bear. Tell me things: kale.williams(at) axios(dot)com.
Portland, OR
Joined December 2011
a truck carrying 100k chinook salmon smolts (yay!) crashed in eastern oregon and flipped over (oh no!) but did so right above a creek (yay!) and a bunch died (oh no!) but more than 75k of them were inadvertently released and will likely return there to spawn as adults (yay!)
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also the driver suffered injuries (oh no!) but they were minor (yay!).
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Facebook was drilling under the Oregon coast to connect a high-speed cable to Asia earlier this year when an accident left drilling equipment and 6,500 gallons of drilling fluid stranded beneath the seafloor. The company has no plans to retrieve it.
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if you smoke weed and still win an Olympic race you should get an extra medal.
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sure everything is awful but hey look at this very relaxed pinniped my friend saw in the Galapagos
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the best part of this is not the middle finger but the fact that meyers leonard is presenting it like he just unveiled a new car at an auto show
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🚨GOOSE HAS A TWIN AND THEY GO TO THE SAME DAYCARE AND THEY MIGHT BE BROTHERS🚨
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Statue of Harvey Scott toppled at Mt. Tabor park last night.
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Large and "very determined" elephant seal blocking traffic on Highway 37.
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Remember the Iranian baby caught in the travel ban who needed heart surgery? Doctors say she is doing great:
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I spent the last year working on a big story about a very small bear. Here's the first chapter:
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to be clear, the drilling fluid's main component is bentonite, which is essentially clay, and officials told me they believe it is "environmentally neutral." Still, the state is calling for a more robust hazard assessment.
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my grandma was going through her old things and found this letter my grandpa wrote me after I dropped out of community college when I was 19. good advice then and good advice now. miss you gramps
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HOLY SHIT
The winner of the Environmental Reporting award is @SFKale of the @Oregonian for "The Loneliest Polar Bear," a view of the real life of Nora the polar bear, a story that judges called "an emotional, educational tale … to explore deep and vexing issues …" #ScrippsHowardAwards
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shoutout to Hatcher who is a good and durable boy.
Dog chews off its leg after being shot while lost for two weeks in Oregon wilderness
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Portland is gonna be well below freezing over the next few days so now is a great time to dig through your closet for warm things you can part with. Cold can deadly for people without homes. Donate what you can.
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It's easy to think this could have been any of us, but I don't think many of us would've had his courage.
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goose has kennel cough and every time he wheezes my frozen heart shatters into one million tiny icicles
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hello I made this post for you it has nothing to do with politics and is just a polar bear cub playing in some ice
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skeptical of your motives but willing to give you the benefit of the doubt
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Citing indoor air pollution and climate concerns, Multnomah County officials are recommending residents replace gas appliances with electric alternatives. NW Natural, the county's main supplier of natural gas, says they weren't consulted.
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picture quality is low but dogfriend levels are through the roof
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TORTA UPDATE: has plans to burn it all down but just gonna start with this cozy fire
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love to start my day with an angry caller telling me climate change isn't real but also that I am making it worse because I've been on an airplane.
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Please help find the owners of this lost dog who loves cheeseburgers and is also temporarily named cheeseburger
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At least 100 #MarioWoods protesters now approaching City Hall to honks of support from passing drivers
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◻️write.◻️dishes.◻️laundry.◻️workout.◻️call mom.◻️go shopping.☑️animal photoshoot
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get yourself a spouse who will find the library of congress title number for your book, commission an artist to make it beautiful and have it nicely framed for you to stare at when you still can’t really believe you’re an author
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Some personal news: finishing up work on what will be my last story for The Oregonian. It’s been a great six year run and I’ll be forever grateful for the friends I made, the lessons I learned and the people (and polar bears) who allowed me into their lives to tell their stories.
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hello please adopt this pup named Amber who was set on fire earlier this year but is now a magnificent beauty . she's at @OregonHumane
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I spoke with a man whose 4-month-old niece can't get from Iran to Oregon for heart surgery because of the travel ban
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I might be biased but in my unscientific opinion the best path to journalism is to wait until you're in your late 20s then go to a community college for three years then transfer to a state school for three more years and get your first internship when you're 33.
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thank you @islabell for introducing me to this taco who is all of us http://t.co/R8M9VNb406.
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caught some very good hood on the flight into portland yesterday
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I spoke to one of the "Oregonians" whose FB comment is in all those stories about how we're afraid to pump our own gas and he's never set foot in the state.
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BREAKING WOLF PUP NEWS: First wolf pups confirmed in Oregon's northern Cascades.
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today sucked.so here’s a pretty mountain .tomorrow might be better
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documentary is out tomorrow so now is your last chance to be one of those people who brags that they read the book before they saw the movie
I spent the last year working on a big story about a very small bear. Here's the first chapter:
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I just heard two kids arguing and one of them shouted "THIS JUST IN: FUCK YOU!" and I audibly giggled.
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told goose about the state of everything and he’s been staring out the window like this for ten minutes
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That’s the street they went with?.
L Street between 5th and 6th streets in Sacramento turning into playoff watch party
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was feeling a little down about the prospect of being stranded by weather in a tiny alaskan village until a nice lady gave me a still-warm cinnamon roll unprompted and told me i looked like I needed it. I did need it. shouts to you nice lady you the real mvp.
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just found out my mom has it . she lives in wisconsin where statewide hospitals are near 90 percent capacity. please take this virus seriously.wear a damn mask.stay in your damn house.
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My book, The Loneliest Polar Bear, comes out March 23 so please do forgive me as I attempt to clumsily promote it. If you buy the book at the link below I will tweet less about it*. *I won’t.
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Oregon HS students suspended after yelling "Tell your family good-bye" at Hispanic kids during Trump rally at school
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today is already terrible.don't make it worse.consider your words.vet information before you share it.be sad.be angry.do something about it.
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