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What the proposed landlord-tenant ordinance does (and doesn’t) do
Clarifying three common misconceptions about Spokane's proposed ordinance.
🏠This ordinance has been updated since this story published, read about it…
Additional Context
A weekly round-up of news from in and around the Inland Northwest with, you guessed it: additional context. And we're always sure to give you a little good news, as a treat.
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Custody of the Kids
Spokane Public Schools and Spokane Police are fighting about when to put kids in jail. It’s a conflict years in the making. Plus, more PFAS contamination news.…
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Gold Rush to Usk
This week we talk the crypto future of the Ponderay Newsprint Mill in Usk, plus Jimmy Kimmel picks the Zags.…
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Battle of the Bans
This week, we cover the abortion ban in Idaho, proposed WA legislation that would require salary information in job listings, another PFAS contamination and more.…
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Inflation Nation
Inflation in the United States has hit its highest point since the early 1980s, but people in rural areas face at least a triple bind.…
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It's getting Succession-y with local TV news
This week, we explain what happened with the TEGNA sale and how it might affect local news, plus we wrap up the latest Spokane County sheriff, regional and national news.…
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Bills Coming Due
We’re eyeing potential legislation in our state and beyond, examining police reform rollbacks, and celebrating a win for free speech lovers…
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Venti Union With Extra Whip, Please
Two WA companies are union-busting, a very Haskell "apology," and bad news on the criminal legal reform front.…
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Falling Stock(ton)
This week: John Stockton, green energy at odds with tribal sovereignty, the nursing crisis that preceded covid, and pickles.…
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Who deserves to be found?
This week: reflections on the missing, developments in the labor movement, and some bad news for federal nuclear workers…
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No one wants to work (the force) anymore
Spokane has a cop gap, welfare has an Amazon problem, and Biden's internet equity play has holes you could drive an inner city through…
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Biden our time
It's starting to feel like an eternal recurrence: Covid is still bad, the Supreme Court is somehow worse. Leadership is spotty at best. But at least a famous basketball coach did something unexpected.…