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New Mexico could teach us

Albuquerque and Spokane have numerous similarities. Both are mid-sized cities, in basically high desert locales. Both have rivers running through them. One north-south and one east-west. Both have very dry climates and receive precipitation seasonally.
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Oh, the nerve!

For the Spokane Police Guild, the investigator’s ruling that Kate Burke did not bully an officer with online criticism must have stung (June 29) – especially for all the reasons outlined in the report determination. That SPD Guild representative Det. David Dunkin failed to perform due diligence in his investigation by first interviewing the alleged bullied SPD officer is even more telling.
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Vestal’s energy bias

Re: Shawn Vestal's Avista column ("Avista leaves customers in dark about rolling blackouts," June 30) blaming Avista for not keeping up with electrical demand during this unprecedented, record setting heat by inconveniencing us with blackouts is misplaced and irresponsible.
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Are we prepared for another outage?

Like thousands of others in Spokane, on Monday, June 28, my house lost power a little before 2 p.m., and it was not restored until after 9 p.m. My house has a basement, which stays cool, so even without air conditioning I should be safe for some time. As I am 86 years old, I was concerned if this continued. I received two calls from Avista with reports on the situation.
Opinion >  Syndicated columns

Ramesh Ponnuru: The rickety politics of the infrastructure bill

The political maneuvering about infrastructure is getting pretty strange, what with President Joe Biden first cheering a bipartisan bill, then threatening to veto it, and then taking back the veto threat in the span of two days. When the action on stage gets hard to follow, it can be helpful to review the main characters and their motivations.
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Rolling blackouts just the start

Avista demonstrated the limits of its electric utility service to Spokane area customers this week when selected areas had their power cut, unannounced, in the midst of the worst heat we’ve ever experienced.
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The temperature truth

Some landing pad out in the boondocks should NOT represent Spokane! Downtown reached 113 on June 29. The Spokesman-Review, which is right downtown, recorded 113. The airport is always 3-5 degrees cooler than what the people of Spokane actually experience.
Opinion >  Guest Opinion

Robert Woodworth: Spokane has light rail halfway built, let’s get it running

A light rail system is a great way to reduce traffic congestion, improve walkability, and revitalize neighborhoods around stations, not to mention the massive environmental benefit of trains versus cars. They are often expensive to build in America because land is prohibitively expensive to obtain. This is not the case in Spokane, a city that was built around a rail line. We have a unique opportunity to use existing infrastructure and owned by BNSF and WADOT to construct a light rail system for a fraction of the cost of other cities.
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