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.
Some board members say they want more transparency and very careful spending of funds collected from the recent levy. However, concerned parents fear ideological stone-walling from board members backed by conservative advocacy group Citizens for CVSD Transparency.
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.”
