When new state rules required Spokane County Commissioners to essentially rebuild the Spokane Regional Health District Board by January 2022, they quickly filled every slot, except one. Despite several applicants wanting the job, a state-mandated Indigenous community seat has remained vacant for two
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.
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.
