Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Democratic challenger Joe Pakootas have added a third debate to their campaign schedules, agreeing to a second match-up in Spokane. The debate, sponsored by three area business groups, will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 30 at the Lincoln Center. While…
Spokane City Hall is backing crimson over purple. The city announced this week it will help Washington State University lobby the Legislature for money to begin establishing its own medical school on Spokane’s Riverpoint campus. The WSU request for $2.5 million in startup funding over…
As we wrote in today’s paper, Spokane Mayor David Condon won’t take the $7,000 pay increase he proposed in his 2015 budget, which would have brought his pay to nearly $180,000. Part of the reason he made such an abrupt about-face had to do with…
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