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Big budget business for Spokane city

CIVICS: Plus, extra overtime on offer for SpoVal cops during holidays, Spokane Valley projects a deficit in 2026 and Spo City could declare 2025 the year of the Cooperative.

By Erin Sellers, Valerie Osier and Aaron Hedge

/ 24 Nov 2025

Part of High Bridge Park set to be leased to American Indian Community Center for $1 a year

Spokane City Council keeps staff and the public alike in the dark at budget meetings

‘I shouldn't have to take the day off in order to know what my government is doing’

By Erin Sellers

/ 20 Nov 2025

Most WA federal rulings found immigrant detentions flouted due process

Price fixing, parking tax and policy impacts

CIVICS: Plus, a stormwater impacts study paid for by the airport.

By Erin Sellers and Aaron Hedge

/ 17 Nov 2025

A love letter from your favorite local politics masochist

Since I started at RANGE, it’s been a focus of my job to bring politics to the people, to make complex local issues more accessible and to make it easier for working class constituents to know what’s going on and how we can all fight to make our city better.

By Erin Sellers

/ 12 Nov 2025

Proposed purchase of crowd control noise device to draw protest

CIVICS: Plus, homeless shelter contracts, fast-tracking PFAS filters and eviction prevention

By Aaron Hedge, Erin Sellers and Valerie Osier

/ 10 Nov 2025

A turn to the left?

Following national and statewide trends, progressive candidates and ballot measures in Spokane win big. Here’s where they stand as of Friday.

By Erin Sellers, Aaron Hedge and Valerie Osier

/ 7 Nov 2025

The City of Spokane’s SNAP response

CIVICS: Plus, nixing city council staff protections, a parking lot tax and the airport budget!

By Erin Sellers and Aaron Hedge

/ 3 Nov 2025

Last minute pocketbook-peeking of city council candidates

An update on the campaign finances of the candidates running for Spokane City Council seats

By Erin Sellers

/ 30 Oct 2025

Even stricter restrictions could be coming to punish visible homelessness

Plus, the airport isn’t budgeting for PFAS clean-up and Spokane City Council could make it easier to fire their own staff.

By Erin Sellers and Aaron Hedge

/ 27 Oct 2025

Spokane City Council candidate Alejandro Barrientos may be ineligible to represent District 2

Court documents show Barrientos lived in two different council districts in 2024, which may disqualify him from the office under rules established in the city charter.

By Erin Sellers

/ 23 Oct 2025

Spokane’s Prop 1(s): What they’ll do for parks and schools and how much they’ll cost

The $440 million in proposed funding through a bond and levy would renovate or expand services in all city parks and schools. We’ve got a breakdown for you.

By Erin Sellers and Clarinne Kirk

/ 21 Oct 2025

Spokane City Council wants to make it easier to fire their own staff

Plus, turning off algorithmic rent fixing software, updates on the new tiny home village and Mead School Board wants more restrictions on “controversial” speakers.

By Erin Sellers and Aaron Hedge

/ 20 Oct 2025