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News >  Spokane

Angela Davis’ GU talk draws critics, but no try at shutdown

College students across the country have staged protests and spoken out against controversial speakers on their campuses, but often those speakers have represented far-right political views. A different kind of discussion has taken place at Gonzaga University in anticipation of
News >  Spokane

A Montana rabbi met hate in Whitefish and found community support

In December 2016, the national spotlight fell on a Whitefish resident and influential racist named Richard Spencer. The town became the target of an anti-Semitic “troll storm” in which the Rostons and their neighbors received threats and had their home addresses shared online. At the time, there were only three Jewish families in the resort town of 7,000 people.
News >  Health

Domestic Violence Action Month draws attention to underreported problem

The first time Aida Ortiz expressed concerns about her marriage, her mostly Catholic family encouraged her to keep it together. But her husband’s fits of rage became more frequent, and he sometimes threatened to disappear with their two young sons, she said. And once he grabbed her phone and threw it at her face. But she ducked and it shattered on a wall behind her.
News >  Spokane

Spokane Valley Spartan racer braced for second championship

Alyssa Hawley likes trudging up hills carrying 50-pound buckets of gravel, or with heavy sandbags slung across her shoulders. She’s less fond of an obstacle known as the Twister – a pole with monkey-bar grips protruding from it in a spiral pattern, which spins each time an athlete shifts weight from one hand to another. Those are just a few of the challenges Hawley will face this weekend during her second appearance in the Reebok Spartan Race World Championship in Lake Tahoe, California.