Northwest Passages Community Forum livestream will start off Wednesday with Spokesman-Review Capital Bureau chief Jim Camden talking to Washington State Senate Minority Leader Mark Schoesler, taking a look at what is going on in our state right now, and is there a need for a special session in Olympia?

There has not been a jury trial in Western Washington – perhaps in the entire state – since early March. While the wheels of justice still turn – some hearings are still held, arraignments and pleas are taken – for the most part they are spinning in place. The federal courthouses in Seattle and Tacoma have been shuttered by judicial order: Pretrial proceedings are done either by video, telephone or postponed. In the busier state courts, where locking the doors hasn’t been an option, the daily docket call looks very different than it did just four months ago.

Families will soon be able to pick up free sack lunches at Spokane Valley parks as the city and East Valley School District launches a free summer meal program for children.

A Black Lives Matter protest in Coeur d’Alene involved several dozen people Monday evening.