Jessica Robinson
Inland Northwest CorrespondentInland Northwest Correspondent Jessica Robinson reports from the Northwest News Network's bureau in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. From the politics of wolves to mining regulation to small town gay rights movements, Jessica covers the economic, demographic and environmental trends that are shaping places east of the Cascades.
Prior to joining the Northwest News Network team, Jessica was the news director of Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Oregon, where she produced a newsmagazine on Northern California and Southern Oregon. In 2010, she spent a year in central Mexico and reported for an English-language newspaper in San Miguel de Allende. Jessica's investigative and feature stories have earned awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Idaho Press Club, the Radio Television Digital News Association, and Public Radio News Directors Inc. A Northwest native, Jessica grew up in an off-the-grid log cabin in the Columbia River Gorge.
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A closely-watched court case dealing with whether religious business-owners must provide services to gay couples is headed to oral arguments Friday in…
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A new Census Bureau report released Wednesday indicates the economic recovery is lifting children out of poverty unevenly around the Northwest.The…
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Northwest potato farmers are cheering a small provision tucked into the newly passed federal spending package.The Women, Infants and Children or WIC…
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A hospital in north Idaho is marketing itself to Canadian tourists — medical tourists, that is.Most of the patients who come into Northwest Specialty…
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The search is on to find an alternative to salting the roads in winter. Salt helps melt the ice, but it also builds up in streambeds and drinking…
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Over the weekend, the story of a transgender woman in Idaho whose family had buried as a man lit up social media.LGBT legal advocates say there continues…
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A new study out of Canada reveals a surprising side-effect that hunting may have on wolves.Researchers wanted to compare the hormone levels in wolves that…
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A slowdown in operations at ports up and down the West Coast is choking off the flow of apples, Christmas trees, potatoes and other Northwest products to…
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The Native American Music Awards recognize indigenous musicians from the U.S., Canada and Latin America. It is considered to be the Grammys of Native…
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The Environmental Protection Agency is testing out a new technique for keeping heavily-used river banks from eroding into the water.The EPA wants to see…