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.
Through voter registration drives, translation efforts, political involvement and having hard conversations with their social networks, young Latine people are fighting to make sure their community is heard in this year’s election.
Abortion rights, what foreign policy even has to do with Eastern WA and the economy’s impacts on the everyday person: Baumgartner and Conroy both seek to fill retiring Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ legislative shoes.
In a race where a fallen primary opponent earned almost a third of the total votes, Hill and Kiepe are both hoping to win those voters through their housing and economic policy positions.
Spokane apostle Cal Pierce bought a $1M home through his nonprofit Healing Rooms Ministries — a 25-year project with a global presence and ties to far-right Christianity. He tried to exempt it from property taxes, but Washington denied his application.
This year, there’s a plan with actual bed counts and costs. But some service providers are still frustrated by a lack of concrete details, like where exactly those beds will be and how the city will replace the loss of capacity at the soon-to-be-defunct Trent Shelter.
