Podcast • 2 min read PODCAST: Adding more (ranked) choice to our voting Seems like there’s an election every year. Maybe we should make them better. We’re back at you with…
Civics • 3 min read Pass the salt — spice up a slow week in local government CIVICS | County funding renewed for key behavioral health programs. We have an abnormally light week in civics for you: it…
Criminal Legal • 6 min read Spokane County blocked ballot access for eligible voters in jail 74% of Spokane’s November jail population — Nearly 600 people — was pre-trial, had not been convicted, and was still eligible…
Civics • 5 min read Council made revisions to the landlord-tenant ordinance, here are the details CIVICS | Vote postponed again. Plus Spokane wants to buy Trent shelter and possible changes at the county jail. Spokane City…
Elections • 8 min read Taking stock of Spokane’s campaign finance laws Past reform efforts proved toothless amid record-breaking spending in 2019. $1.25 million. That’s the record-breaking spending mark for…
Housing • 9 min read What the proposed landlord-tenant ordinance does (and doesn’t) do Clarifying three common misconceptions about Spokane's proposed ordinance. 🏠This ordinance has been updated since this story published, read about it…
Civics • 3 min read More bike parking (possibly) coming to Spokane CIVICS | Plus, MLK Jr. Day closures and ways to volunteer It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which means it’…
Civics • 7 min read Ziplines and security cameras and sex ed, oh my CIVICS | This week you’ll see a lot of routine reorganizing, but there are some bigger items, too, like allocating…
Explainer • 10 min read What is a regional homelessness authority? There’s broad support for a new approach. Making it a reality won’t be simple. In a video address…
Range Updates • 3 min read Live, Laugh, Log off Journalists need to care for themselves as they care for others, so RANGE is taking a much needed week off.…
Housing • 6 min read How the Spokane community shows up in a cold crisis Mutual aid and nonprofit groups are working to help unhoused people survive in subzero temperatures. More help is needed. ❤️Hey!…
Housing • 4 min read Due to a miscommunication, Trent shelter was turning people away today On the coldest day this winter, Trent staff was telling people they could come get warm, then they had to…