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Tracy Simmons

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Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

FāVS Religion News Roundup: Sept. 21

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In this religion news roundup read about an upcoming Climate Change Forum hosted by Gonzaga University, the African Children's Choir performing in various churches, a new mural celebrating voting rights to be painted and the upcoming Northwest Pagan Fest.

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FāVS Religion News Roundup: Sept. 14

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Read about Eucharistic Expo 2023, Mayor Woodward possibly being censured by Spokane City Council, a Pride community crosswalk being graffitied and a Whitworth University speaker who will talk about library freedom.

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FāVS Religion News Roundup: Sept. 7

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This post is about Washington State Christians making national headlines, YWCA of Spokane launching an online Racial Justice Challenge and the opening of a Spokane middle school named after local Holocaust survivor, Carla Olman Peperzak.

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FāVS Religion News Roundup: Aug. 31, 2023

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This week's FāVS Religion News Roundup includes hurricane Idalia's aftermath, Gray and Oregon wildfire survivors still needing help, the Mayor Woodward and Matt Shea story making it to Rolling Stone magazine, HRC Ministries promoting human trafficking awareness and more.

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FāVS Religion News Roundup: Aug. 24, 2023

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This week's post includes helping Gray Fire victims, Mayor Nadine Woodward's appearance on stage with Christian nationalists, a Whitworth professor named a 2023 Young Scholar in American Religion and a Jehovah's Witness Regional Convention to be held in Russian.

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