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CIVICS | Plus, a public hearing for height restrictions downtown, a West Plains Water Coalition meeting and city/county joint spending to tackle rising opioid overdose rates.
RANGE caught up with Bismark Avornu, who’s lived in the Spokane area for 15 years, where he met his wife and is raising two American children, about his 45 days in a Tacoma processing facility.
After President Donald Trump canceled a program that allows people who fled a country in turmoil to work and live here, a local jobs program is unsure what will happen to them.
Federal agents surveilled and detained two men in Spokane Valley, broke into their truck, injured and arrested them as they were going to a court hearing, breaking up a family.
CIVICS: Land capacity and density are the hot topics this week, but there’s also DEI policy discussions at Mead, a drinking water presentation in Spokane and a greenhouse gas resolution at the county.
Plus, a police accountability presentation, efforts from Spokane to limit hiring discrimination and details on the Spokane Public Schools + Spokane Parks levy this fall.
A local extremism reporter’s guide to what happened in the viral video of a woman being dragged out of an Idaho town hall by a group of men with no official uniforms.
CIVICS: Local bodies discuss responses to state legislation, Spokane Valley struggles to stop “illicit massage,” and the city wants to work with the county to address the opioid epidemic.
Workers’ rights, protections for undocumented immigrants and queer kids, reproductive justice, voting access for incarcerated people, and a whole lot more this Washington legislative session.
ICE arrested the man from his home while his wife, a US citizen, was on her way home from the grocery store. He is being held at a facility in Tacoma, and a lawyer is trying to reopen his green card application.
