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News >  Spokane

Homeowners ‘back-billed’ $3K due to utility’s faulty equipment

“You may have noticed that your Vera bill has been lower recently or over the past several years,” read a letter sent to Jeff and Diane Kipp last month from their electric provider, Vera Water & Power. They hadn’t, Diane Kipp said. But no matter – the letter went on to tell the Spokane Valley couple that they owe $3,140.85 for electricity used, but under-billed by Vera.
News >  Spokane

Rice speaks to past actions, current world hot spots

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a Spokane audience Thursday that the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq wasn’t a mistake. “What we did I would do again,” she said in response to a question by Whitworth University President Beck Taylor.
News >  Spokane

Private meetings between UW, WSU explored ‘co-branding’ medical school in Spokane

Two private meetings this summer brought top officials from the University of Washington and Washington State University close to a deal on "co-branding" a medical school in Spokane. Yet the efforts for a third and possibly final meeting to seal an agreement were stymied when WSU officials hesitated. And now the two schools are veering away from collaboration that would have shared local faculty, and brought medical school admissions, administration and research dollars to Spokane.
News >  Spokane

UW rips WSU-commissioned study on new medical school

The University of Washington on Monday criticized as “seriously flawed” a feasibility study supporting a second public medical school that would be established in Spokane by Washington State University. WSU commissioned the study, released last week, that concluded WSU could educate medical students more cheaply than UW.
News >  Health

UW calls WSU medical school study flawed

The University of Washington on Monday criticized as “seriously flawed” a feasibility study supporting for a second public medical school that would be established in Spokane by Washington State University.
News >  Spokane

Clinic’s secular nature intact

Religious directives that some worried could restrict medical care at a new health clinic preparing to open on the Washington State University Spokane campus are being jettisoned. The announcement Friday by Providence Health & Services comes two days after the American Civil Liberties Union expressed concern about the clinic’s bylaws and asked WSU regents to address the matter at their Sept. 11 meeting.
News >  Spokane

Gonzaga to award $1 million Opus Prize for humanitarian work

Gonzaga University will hand out a $1 million gift in October on behalf of a foundation that recognizes faith-based humanitarian work. The Opus Prize Foundation partners with Catholic universities to recognize people and organizations doing “very difficult work in very difficult places,” said Michael Herzog, an English professor and chief of staff for Gonzaga President Thayne McCulloh. Gonzaga staff, faculty and students, with the help of contacts all over the world, have spent more than a year identifying nominees, then narrowing the list to three finalists.
News >  Spokane

Woldson gift to fund GU arts center

Gonzaga University will get a new performing arts center on campus with a bequest from Spokane philanthropist Myrtle Woldson, who died last month at the age of 104. The facility will be named the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center and will include a 750-seat theater, according to an announcement Monday from Gonzaga President Thayne McCulloh.
News >  Spokane

A legacy of renewal

Downtown Spokane has had two great transformations in its history: the Great Fire of 1889 that destroyed the city center, and Expo ’74, which renewed it. Before the World’s Fair, a tangle of railroad tracks and warehouses on and around the current site of Riverfront Park all but hid the river gorge from view.
News >  Spokane

Loving the high life

For local business people and government officials, Expo ’74 was more than just the activities taking place at the fairgrounds in the city center. “There were lots of black-tie parties,” recalled Norma Lindsay, wife of Expo ’74 Chairman Roderick Lindsay. “The dinners and all those things were fabulous.”
News >  Spokane

WSU wants own med school in Spokane

Washington State University officials want to launch the state’s second public medical school in Spokane. “We can do better as a state to infuse more physicians into the marketplace,” said WSU President Elson Floyd. “We will look at establishing a new medical school for our state – a new, independently accredited one sponsored by WSU.”
News >  Spokane

UW, WSU spar over medical schooling at Riverpoint

Tensions between the University of Washington and Washington State University over the future of medical education in Spokane became apparent again Wednesday when UW announced an initiative called Next Generation WWAMI. The three-page news release mentioned WSU just once, and didn’t address at all “some fairly significant questions” about the Spokane school’s control over medical education on its campus, said WSU Spokane Chancellor Lisa Brown – questions she said she and WSU President Elson Floyd raised with UW administrators in a March 12 meeting.
News >  Spokane

Washington child protective services tests new FAR approach in Spokane

Washington’s child protective services will handle some cases of child neglect or mistreatment differently under a new program rolling out in Spokane and two other locations. Automatic investigations by social workers will be replaced with referrals to services that might help a family through whatever trouble they’re experiencing. It’s a less adversarial approach that’s been successful in keeping families together in other states, said Connie Lambert-Eckel, regional administrator for the state Children’s Administration in Eastern Washington.
News >  Spokane

Band boosters reunite couple, engagement ring

A pit stop, Pearl Jam and a proposal nearly derailed. This is the story of Jesse Kearney and Amanda Stout, a couple from Selah, Wash., who bought tickets to see their favorite band playing at the Spokane Arena on Saturday.
News >  Spokane

Eastern State Hospital sued over 2012 strangulation

The estate of an Eastern State Hospital patient who was strangled by another patient is suing the facility, saying its personnel failed to adequately supervise criminally insane patients. In a federal lawsuit filed Friday afternoon, the estate of Duane Charley alleged that Eastern State allowed dangerous patients to keep extension cords, belts, scarves and other potential weapons in their rooms.