Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• NAACP leader urges action against racism

  October 1, 2009 in City on Page A1 Spokane Mayor Mary Verner quoted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and spoke of the city’s “long history” of standing against crimes based on race at a news conference Wednesday. City … 10

• Florida firm gets bus bench contract

  July 23, 2009 in City on Page A7 The apparent solution to Spokane’s bus bench controversy will be to send the money to Jupiter. As in Jupiter, Fla. 1

• Wages & means

  July 12, 2009 in City on Page A1 Jobs with great pay and excellent benefits can be hard to come by in a recession – but not necessarily at City Hall. The city of Spokane hasn’t stopped filling … 17

• Spokane opts for watering education, not regulation

  May 23, 2009 in City Connoisseurs of super-green lawns in Spokane can relax – the water police will not be out this summer.

• Verner: Replace bus benches

  May 4, 2009 Spokane needs to come up with a plan to replace the bus benches scattered around the city with a standard design and more sensible placement, Mayor Mary Verner said today. 3

• Residence requirement proposed for judges

  February 17, 2009 in City on Page A6 One of Spokane’s newly-appointed Municipal Court judges would be out of a job this fall under a new rule under consideration by the Spokane City Council. City Councilman Bob Apple …

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  Council weighing tax vote in March

  January 10, 2009 in City on Page A1 Six months after rejecting Mayor Mary Verner’s plan to raise property taxes for a police evidence building, animal shelter and other requests, the Spokane City Council appears headed to endorse … 1

• Verner withdraws municipal court pick

  December 26, 2008 in News, City With one week until Spokane is required to open its new independent Municipal Court, opposition on the City Council has forced Mayor Mary Verner to withdraw her most experienced pick … 3

• Verner says state of the city is strong

  October 14, 2008 in City on Page B1 Though federal leaders acted in ways that have thrown the nation’s economy into turmoil, Spokane officials’ foresight will help the city survive hard economic times, Spokane Mayor Mary Verner said …

• People behaving badly will keep The Column kicking

  October 14, 2008 in City on Page B1 OK then. Let’s all give a big hand to Spokane Mayor Mary Verner for delivering such a (yawn) riveting state of the city speech at City Hall on Monday night. …