Staff
Staff > News > Shawn Vestal
COLUMNIST
Shawn Vestal shawnv@spokesman.com (509) 459-5431Shawn Vestal joined The Spokesman-Review in 1999. He currently is a columnist for the City Desk.
Most Recent Stories
June 16, 2021, 5 a.m.
To the list of cities that have been held up as examples of how to fight homelessness successfully – from Salt Lake City’s original housing-first models to the jail-or-treatment ultimatums in Marysville, Washington – you can now add San Diego and Bakersfield, California.
June 13, 2021, midnight
How many unsheltered homeless people are there in Spokane?
June 8, 2021, 1:08 p.m.
Oh, swell. Another racist zealot with a “compound.” Just what we need.
June 6, 2021, 6 a.m.
We know that forest fires have been burning bigger and hotter, summer after summer.