CIVICS | Plus, Spokane Valley will reevaluate their contract with SCRAPS, Spokane seeks volunteers for boards and commissions and the Urban Experience Committee talks homelessness.
Here’s the nominating process the Spokane County GOP uses to determine who will represent them in elections and, possibly, who will make the rules for our society.
Plus, the Mead School Board is looking at its library policy again, Spokane Valley police are looking for $6.2 million for more officers and green trash bin pick up is back!
Community leaders say better data is good, but transparency, communication and access that affirms are all vital pre-requisites to governing alongside communities, not at them.
Board members said the district lacks the funds to comply with a proposed law requiring school districts to include queer historical literature. They also say the state is overstepping its boundaries.
The legislature is working to boost representation in public school literature, reduce pollution, control the rent, improve workplace conditions for strip club workers and bust hospital monopolies.
After more than 6 years of patchwork testing and remediation of a chemical spill no one truly knows the scale of, a new water program will greatly expand the testing area and get a more holistic picture of the poison in West Plains wells.