CIVICS | Plus, Spokane Valley will reevaluate their contract with SCRAPS, Spokane seeks volunteers for boards and commissions and the Urban Experience Committee talks homelessness.
Here’s the nominating process the Spokane County GOP uses to determine who will represent them in elections and, possibly, who will make the rules for our society.
You won’t find the answer to “solving homelessness” here, but you will find the ideas, hopes, plans and dreams of the community members and elected officials we interviewed.
More rules changed at last night’s meeting, so RANGE updated our handy guide to the do’s and don’ts of civic engagement under the new-new council rules.
Plus, the Mead School Board is looking at its library policy again, Spokane Valley police are looking for $6.2 million for more officers and green trash bin pick up is back!
Service providers, emergency responders, civil servants and politicians all agree: Spokane has an overdose crisis. But because of inadequate data collection, no one knows exactly how bad it is.
Community leaders say better data is good, but transparency, communication and access that affirms are all vital pre-requisites to governing alongside communities, not at them.
Board members said the district lacks the funds to comply with a proposed law requiring school districts to include queer historical literature. They also say the state is overstepping its boundaries.
