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1 week ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can keep track of and fight for the issues you care about. Everyone came back from their break with a vengeance, ready to tackle some important and controversial legislative items, so it’s a much more involved week of CIVICS.
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2 weeks ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about. It’s an EXTREMELY light Civics this week, as many public bodies in Spokane County are taking a spring break, but there are a couple of things are going on:Spokane Valley is performing the regular update to its rule book.
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3 weeks ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about. Some things that stick out to us this week include: Spokane Valley might approve a resolution declaring the city is not a sanctuary city and, counter to state law, direct its police department to start helping “other” agencies enforce federal immigration law.
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1 month ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge |Valerie Osier
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about.
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1 month ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about. Some things that stick out to us this week include: Spokane City Council is continuing to study the city’s capacity for growth, and could vote tonight on a resolution to accept the findings of a 2025 capacity study.
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1 month ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about. Some things that stick out to us this week include: Spokane City Council is set to approve traffic safety projects tonight, but after two pedestrian fatalities in the last week, advocates fear efforts are “too little, too late.”The Office of Police Ombuds will present on police accountability data from January 2025.
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2 months ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about. Some things that stick out to us this week include: Spokane City Council will hold a first reading of an ordinance to make some small changes to the biennial budget review process.
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2 months ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about. Some things that stick out to us this week include: Spokane City Council . Latinos en Spokane will be hosting a rally in support of the resolution prior to the meeting.
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2 months ago | 
rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers |Aaron Hedge
Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about. Some things that stick out to us this week include: The City Council an Alcohol Impact Area downtown that would limit stores from selling single-serve alcohol containers, ban sales after midnight and prohibit the sale of drug paraphernalia, including pipes and aluminum foil, which is used to smoke some street drugs.
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2 months ago | 
rangemedia.co | Aaron Hedge |Luke Baumgarten
This story was written in partnership between RANGE and FāVS News, a nonprofit newsroom covering faith and values in the Inland Northwest. Learn more about FāVS’s work here. At least four people arrested by federal agents in Spokane County were held in the Kootenai County Jail on behalf of federal immigration enforcement in the last two weeks, starting days after President Donald Trump took office. One of the people was detained on charges of unlawful border crossing, according to jail records.
