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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.

2 weeks ago | rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers

Twenty years ago, Tina Hammond’s future looked bright. She’d just graduated from Gonzaga University with a masters degree. She owned a home in Spokane, and her finances seemed in order. “My life was really good,” Hammond said. Then the 2008 recession hit. She couldn’t find work in her field and took a minimum wage job. In  just a couple of years, she burned through her savings and her 401k, desperately trying to pay her mortgage. In 2010, Hammond lost her home.

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.

3 weeks ago | rangemedia.co | Erin Sellers

This story was written in partnership between RANGE and Stonewall News Northwest, a newsroom serving the rural LGBTQ+ community of the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about Stonewall News Northwest’s work here. If Matt Danielson would have known four months ago that Spokane Pride was losing one of the major corporate sponsorships, he would have had time to prepare, call local breweries and begin to pursue replacement sponsorships.

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.