If you really miss the pure heat of municipal process, you could attend the Spokane Valley City Council or the Spokane City Climate Resilience and Sustainability Board.
As the Spokane County prosecutor refuses to engage with families affected by police violence and continues to find police killings justified, state bills designed to hold police accountable failed this year in the legislature. Meanwhile lawmakers look to pour more money into policing.
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.
