A rundown of the local races we’ve been covering and where they stand today. What’s set in stone, what’s too close to call and what the local landscape will look like heading into next year.
CIVICS: Traffic Calming in Spokane, homelessness contracts, Liberty Lake tackles “the climate element,” and Spokane Public Schools get a new board member.
I-2109 | The details you need to vote on repealing a capital gains tax that raises hundreds of millions of dollars for education and early learning — a tax that fewer than 1 tenth of 1 percent of people ever pay.
County Commissioner French said the county had hired an attorney to “draft agreements” to pipe water to residents with forever chemical contamination. Prosecutor Haskell told Commissioner Chris Jordan the county was planning no agreements.
The boards and commissions that make the county work, what they do, and how members are appointed (it’s really interesting we swear). And, what could change across the county if Al French loses his reelection bid.
At the heart of the tight race for the seat covering the southwestern-most parts of the county: debate over PFAS contamination and the pace of development.
Public safety is top of mind in Spokane Valley, which will send a new state senator to Olympia in a couple of weeks. One candidate sees that issue as being much bigger than cops and includes healthcare, childcare and food security.
Former council member Jon Snyder is biking his way back to Spokane to serve as the city’s first Director of Transportation and Sustainability, a new cabinet-level position that will, apparently, not cost the city a cent.
