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Luke Baumgarten
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Editor and Publisher, RANGE Media
Spokane
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Biography
Luke is a journalist, organizer and life-long Spokanite who has spent his career telling stories, building community and working to make the region more just and livable for all of our neighbors. Seeking a more equitable model of business and a more just life for workers, he founded RANGE, a worker-owned local newsroom, in 2020. In 2021, he co-founded the Spokane Workers Cooperative, a holding company designed to scale cooperative ownership as efficiently as possible. Prior to that, Luke co-founded the arts nonprofit Terrain (2008) and was a founding board member of Feast World Kitchen (2019). He founded Fellow Coworking in 2013 and helped launch Treatment Creative in 2015.
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Content
By Luke Baumgarten| RANGE Media Verified It took me a day to realize that, when my source said they were trying to connect me with “the American lady who got interrogated by ICE,” they were talking about a different person than I had asked about. Every day since January 20, the number of people detained by immigration officials in our community grows. And every day our team pulls a little more thread on the breadth of the immigration detention operations happening in our area
Immigration officials are arresting people in Washington and warehousing them in Idaho – RANGE Media
By Aaron Hedge, Luke Baumgarten| RANGE Media Verified This story was written in partnership between RANGE and FāVS News, a nonprofit newsroom covering faith and values in the Inland Northwest. Learn more about FāVS’s work here. At least four people arrested by federal agents in Spokane County were held in the Kootenai County Jail on behalf of federal immigration enforcement in the last two weeks, starting days after President Donald Trump took office. One of the people was detained on charges of unlawful border crossing, according to jail records
Company Info
RANGE Media
RANGE is a news organization for people who love the Inland Northwest and want to make it better. We are building an anti-racist, equity-minded, class-focused newsroom striving to spotlight the perspectives and expertise of members of marginalized communities, from the ground up.
Spokane, Washington, United States
'+1 509-530-1080
Founded: 2020