The 5 am Crisis Walks will continue until conditions improve
Every morning, Gavin Cooley of the Spokane Business Association leads an hourlong walk as part of a campaign to end visible homelessness downtown. Is it effective? Opinions vary.
Gavin Cooley takes a selfie of the walking group before they depart. Left to right: Cooley, Barry Barfield, Julie Demakis, Nicolette Ocheltree, Derek Baziotis and George Demakis. Photo by Ben Tobin
Buckle up, folks. This is a long one. If you want to pop earbuds in and listen instead (maybe while you take a walk downtown?), we’ve got you. Note: the audio version of the story does not reflect edits made post publication - a quote from County Commissioner Josh Kernsstating that he did not have a competition with County Commissioner Al French to get a meeting with Mayor Lisa Brown, and that Brown never responded to his original meeting proposal.
Taking a hard look at SBA’s much-talked-about study of unhoused people that claimed 50.2% of unhoused people in Spokane moved here after becoming homeless.
Emails circulated among its workforce by company officials pointed workers to resources to testify against a bill that capped the amount landlords can hike rents and fees
As rumors swirling online stoke fear about the re-issuance of the Essential Services letter, USPS leaves Spokane and national postal workers in the dark.
As lawmakers debate how to rein in these cameras, sheriffs, civil rights groups and transparency advocates are clashing over how much access is too much
