To understand their impact (of Bill Morlin and Karen Dorn Steele leaving the SR), think for a moment about the people and institutions in our community who are today celebrating their departure. Other celebrants: City Hall politicians and bureaucrats. The Spokane Fire Department. The Spokane County Sheriff’s Department and especially its pre-Ozzie, but lingering, mouthpiece. County Republican officials, alleged business leaders, educators and clergy who either defended Jim West or stood back while other people exposed his misdeeds and then turned him out of office. Corporate environmental polluters. Aryan racists. Federal nuclear regulatory bureaucrats. Diploma mill operators. Religious cultists. Uncountable criminals, miscreants and thugs brought to the bar by Karen and Bill during their storied careers/Steve Smith, Still A Newspaperman. More here.

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