There were public protests, internal squabbles and other issues in the past 12 months, enough that the governing board of non-commercial KDNA-FM (91.9) in Yakima, Washington ended the tenure of Maria Fernandez. She was dropped as executive director after only one year, replaced by Laura Contreras, an immigration lawyer with Columbia Legal Service in Yakima, according to the Yakima Herald-Republic. Northwest Communities Education Center governing board member Len Black tells the newspaper, “It’s just a culmination of things that said we probably need to be in a different place, going in a different direction.” Fernandez’s tenure included firings, differences between volunteers and management, protests and strikes. Contreras officially takes over Friday.