Shawn Vestal

Mar 16, 2024 | yahoo.com | Shawn Vestal

Mar. 16—In 1972, citizens mounted an initiative to crack open the secrecy surrounding the people's business. Initiative 276 was intended as a beam of comprehensive, thoroughgoing sunshine, opening the books of campaign finance as well as making virtually every government record open to the public.

Mar 14, 2024 | spokesman.com | Shawn Vestal

I wrote my first newspaper column when I was 14 years old. One of my hometown’s two weekly newspapers – The Enterprise, not the Gooding County Leader – published my musings on everything from JV football to Jimmy Carter to drinking beer at Mormon holiday parades. The columns were due Monday mornings. I would write them by hand on Sunday nights – lying on the living room floor, buzzing with deadline anxiety – and drop them off the next day at the tiny, crowded office.

Mar 14, 2024 | yahoo.com | Shawn Vestal

Mar. 14—I wrote my first newspaper column when I was 14 years old. One of my hometown's two weekly newspapers — The Enterprise, not the Gooding County Leader — published my musings on everything from JV football to Jimmy Carter to drinking beer at Mormon holiday parades. The columns were due Monday mornings. I would write them by hand on Sunday nights — lying on the living room floor, buzzing with deadline anxiety — and drop them off the next day at the tiny, crowded office.

Mar 9, 2024 | spokesman.com | Shawn Vestal

Last January, Spokane County launched a pilot program that attempted to connect some nonviolent criminal defendants with services addressing problems such as poverty, drug addiction and mental illness. It was one of several criminal-justice reform proposals that emerged during the nine-year relationship with the MacArthur Foundation, which has granted the county $4.5 million since 2015 to shrink the jail population and reduce racial disparities in the justice system.

Mar 9, 2024 | es-us.finanzas.yahoo.com | Shawn Vestal

Mar. 9—Last January, Spokane County launched a pilot program that attempted to connect some nonviolent criminal defendants with services addressing problems such as poverty, drug addiction and mental illness. It was one of several criminal-justice reform proposals that emerged during the nine-year relationship with the MacArthur Foundation, which has granted the county $4.5 million since 2015 to shrink the jail population and reduce racial disparities in the justice system.