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News >  Agriculture

In the 17th century, tulip bulb mania created the world’s first speculative bubble

In the 1600s the price of tulip bulbs in Holland soared. A single bulb could cost more than a house and in some cases tulip bulbs were used as a form of currency. Single bulbs would be sold multiple times, and investors would buy the rights to tulips yet to be grown. This created a futures market. Eventually the market crashed leading to what many economists consider the first speculative bubble. Known as tulip mania, the extent of the phenomenon, and the cause of the market collapse, is disputed.
News >  Spokane

ACLU report critical overall on school resource officers but cites Spokane Public Schools for good policing policy

Police in Washington schools are expensive, largely unregulated and widespread, according to a report published by the ACLU earlier this week. And although Spokane Public Schools’ school police force is better regulated than most, it’s still costly. During the 2014-15 school year Spokane Public Schools paid $1 million in salary and benefits to its resource officers, the highest in the state.
News >  Agriculture

Potato farming in Washington involves high-stakes investment due to competitive market, low profit margins

Rex Calloway looked west through the large windows of his 1950s-era farmhouse near Quincy and talked about the time, nearly 70 years ago, that his grandfather first arrived on this land. Back then, the Columbia Basin was dry. A rugged landscape of sagebrush and rolling hills. Rattlesnakes. Scorching summer days. Cold nights. Quincy, the nearest town, was a speck, homesteaders and dry-land farmers eking out an existence on an average of 6 to 8 inches of rain a year.
News >  Spokane

At Spokane-area schools, Gay Straight Alliances reflect an evolution in attitude

There has been a broad cultural shift throughout schools in the Spokane area, according to members and advisers of local alliances interviewed by The Spokesman-Review. While progress has been uneven in places, they said, the prevailing attitude among young people has largely been to embrace the presence of alternate identities and orientations.