Cities across the US are ditching arbitrary requirements around how many parking spaces must be built with new housing, but Spokane is the first major Washington city to take the plunge. Will others follow?
From talking to your council members to getting involved in your community to utilizing the power of the press, there’s more you can do to hold public officials accountable beyond the ballot box.
Despite the Jan. 6 riot and its fallout, militias are far from extinct. American Patriots Three Percent, or AP3, has expanded at a dramatic pace while keeping much of its activity out of view.
Birdie Bachman has left the Inland Northwest to gear up for a career as a human rights lawyer at the nation’s premier HBCU. Her time working with the Diversity Club at her high school, where staff diversity lags, was a crash course in activism.
Running down the facts, fictions and feelings about an ordinance that would make housing status a protected class and enshrine “the human rights and basic dignities of individuals experiencing homelessness.”
The region’s transit agency, Spokane Transit Authority (STA) is about to start a hiring process for a new CEO that would include no official input from employees of the agency or the public that uses and pays for its services.
A 920-page policy blueprint contains the Heritage Foundation’s vision for a second Trump administration — with impacts on women, LGBTQ+ rights, families, education and the workforce.
