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News >  Spokane

Events Spotlight Best Of Our Youth

It's spring, the season when, as poet Joan Walsh Anglund put it: "... new life presses out from every growing thing, fulfilling our trust, renewing our faith, that this has always been, that this will be again."
News >  Spokane

Evolution Alone Should Be Taught Place For Everything Faith-Based Teaching Appropriate At Church And In The Home.

Creationists declare that evolution, (they prefer to call it Darwinism) is only a theory and no more entitled to be part of the public school curriculum than any other theory. They also pretend that creationism, which you can read about in the Old Testament book of Genesis, is supported by science and therefore belongs in the schools as much as evolution does.
News >  Spokane

Void Power Play Of A Selfish Few

Cherie Rodgers is known as a clean air activist. That shouldn't keep the Spokane city councilwoman off the Spokane County Air Pollution Control Authority, given the clean air agency's mission. If anything, it should make her an ideal fit.
News >  Spokane

Building Community Safe After-School Places A Necessity

"It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?" That familiar question has been around for awhile. It's an appropriate reminder to parents of their responsibility for the guidance and supervision of their youngsters. What if we shift the time frame a few hours?
News >  Spokane

People Can Guide Downtown Plans

Early in October 1959, a handful of New York consultants arrived in Spokane to begin laying out a 20-year development plan for the city's core. Four months later, the preliminary report was released. With a couple of slight modifications in the 1960s and early '90s, that plan still represents the guiding vision for downtown Spokane. That is about to change, however, beginning with a town hall meeting from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Spokane Convention Center.
News >  Spokane

Put Interchange Into Higher Gear

Washington state Sen. Bob McCaslin takes great pride in never voting for tax hikes. Yet even that staunch conservative has said he's ready to support a fuel tax increase if that's what it takes to get the Evergreen interchange built. That's how important the freeway project is to the Spokane Valley where Republican McCaslin's voters live and drive.
News >  Spokane

Public’s Safety Takes A Back Seat

To every citizen or motorist who ever muttered, "Where's a cop when you really need one?" one answer is: Not on the state and county highways on and near the Spokane Indian Reservation. If you travel those roads and you count on the Washington State Patrol's enforcement activities to protect you and your loved ones from drunken drivers, speeders and other highway menaces, you can't - not since tribal officials accused Trooper David Fenn, a prolific ticket-writer, of racist motives.
News >  Spokane

Silence Tantamount To Active Complicity

When it comes to talking to kids, the S-word that stops more parents in their tracks than "sex" is "suicide." The typical response when a youngster drops hints about ending his or her life is no response. Mental health professionals say adults are afraid to talk with an adolescent about suicide because it might plant the idea in an impressionable mind.
News >  Spokane

These Guardians Are Serving Us All

In courtroom legalese they're known as guardians ad litem. In the language of childhood make-believe, they would be called guardian angels. "They" are the volunteers who dedicate heart-wrenching hours to making sure abused and neglected children are fairly represented when lawyers, parents and government agencies fight over them in court.
News >  Spokane

Common Sense Is Available Locally $84,000 Answer: Concentrate On Students Who Live In The Region. Sell Your Best Programs.

The sequence of name changes that eventually converted Cheney Normal School into Eastern Washington University tells us something about the modernization of public higher education in the Spokane area. But in its drive to keep pace with the changing needs, bad times have befallen the institution. Enrollment has nose-dived by nearly 1,000 students in four years. State officials are withholding revenues until they see evidence of a plan to correct the slippage. And when this fall's numbers revealed yet another decline it was seen as good news - because the decline wasn't as severe as expected.