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2 weeks ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Doug Nadvornick |Monica Carrillo-Casas |Owen Henderson
Our last two programs have focused on local news and the challenges of providing information for people in our communities. We’ve talked with researchers at Washington State University who released a study about local news in Washington. We’ve talked with the people who oversee the news operations at several Spokane media outlets. You can read and listen here and here. Today, we talk with the publishers who operate weekly newspapers in Newport and Colville, Washington.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Monica Carrillo-Casas |Elena Perry
May 19—Tere Graham attended the African American Graduation Ceremony more than a decade ago after graduating from Eastern Washington University. Although she previously lived in Spokane and attended Lewis and Clark High School, it was during this ceremony that she first felt connected to the Spokane community.
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2 weeks ago | 
spokesman.com | Monica Carrillo-Casas |Elena Perry
Tere Graham attended the African American Graduation Ceremony more than a decade ago after graduating from Eastern Washington University. Although she previously lived in Spokane and attended Lewis and Clark High School, it was during this ceremony that she first felt connected to the Spokane community.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Orion Donovan-Smith |Monica Carrillo-Casas
May 12—WASHINGTON — Two families of white South Africans whom President Donald Trump has designated as refugees arrived in the United States on Monday, en route to their new homes in southern Idaho. The nine soon-to-be Idahoans are part of a group of about 50 Afrikaners, an ethnic group descended from European settlers, who landed at a Virginia airport to start new lives in the United States through a humanitarian program the Trump administration has suspended for most other people.
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1 month ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Owen Henderson |Erik Neumann |Monica Carrillo-Casas
Spokane's anti-discrimination ordinance for LGBTQ+ community approvedThe Spokane City Council has approved an ordinance aimed at protecting LGBTQ+ community members. The ordinance adds anti-discrimination language to city code, prevents city resources from being used to investigate someone for seeking gender-affirming care, and protects against releasing information about a person’s sex assigned at birth. These changes largely put Spokane’s city code in line with Washington state law.
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1 month ago | 
spokesman.com | Monica Carrillo-Casas |Orion Donovan-Smith
Local leaders report a growing wave of anxiety among Afghan families in Spokane after the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to strip protections for those with Temporary Protected Status. Kazim Abdullahi, a resident of Spokane, said he knows more than 20 families in the county who will be affected – all of whom are too afraid to speak out.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Monica Carrillo-Casas |Orion Donovan-Smith
Apr. 27—Local leaders report a growing wave of anxiety among Afghan families in Spokane after the Department of Homeland Security announced plans to strip protections for those with Temporary Protected Status. Kazim Abdullahi, a resident of Spokane, said he knows more than 20 families in the county who will be affected — all of whom are too afraid to speak out.
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2 months ago | 
yakimaherald.com | Mónica Carrillo |Mitchell Roland |Monica Carrillo-Casas
TACOMA — Dressed in a black suit and a cream-colored cowboy hat, 18-year-old Raul Gomez-Eudave stood outside the Northwest ICE Processing Center on Monday afternoon. For him, the hat carried deep significance. "It has my saint on it," he said. Inside, hidden from view until removed, is an image of St. Jude, the patron saint of desperate situations. As he stood outside the detention center, he waited for his mother, Micaela Eudave, to walk free.
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2 months ago | 
seattletimes.com | Monica Carrillo-Casas |Mitchell Roland
TACOMA — Dressed in a black suit and a cream-colored cowboy hat, 18-year-old Raul Gomez-Eudave stood outside the Northwest ICE Processing Center on Monday afternoon. For him, the hat carried deep significance. “It has my saint on it,” he said. Inside, hidden from view until removed, is an image of St. Jude, the patron saint of desperate situations. As he stood outside the detention center, he waited for his mother, Micaela Eudave, to walk free.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Monica Carrillo-Casas |James Hanlon
Mar. 18—RITZVILLE — U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner faced a mix of about 100 supporters and displeased constituents during the first of his town-hall doubleheader Monday about an hour's drive southwest of Spokane, where he later met with a larger crowd at Whitworth University. He is among the few Republicans in Congress still holding in-person town halls as they feel the ire of Americans upset with President Donald Trump's early actions that are remaking the federal government.
