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Shawn Vestal: Inslee’s right about the disease, but wrong about the cure

UPDATED: Fri., Jan. 14, 2022

Marilou Rickert did not set Washington politics on fire when she ran for the Legislature in 2003.

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Shawn Vestal: Concerns over rejection of gay job candidate stirs World Relief

Sun., Jan. 9, 2022

As scores of refugees from Afghanistan have begun arriving in Spokane, a controversy has roiled the local office of World Relief, the organization that resettles them here – causing some people to leave the organization and supporters to rethink financial contributions.

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Shawn Vestal: Redoubt figure and Idaho legislative candidate faces rape, molestation charges

Fri., Jan. 7, 2022

As we mark the anniversary of a day when unhinged, violent talk turned into unhinged, violent action, it’s worth an update on North Idaho’s “Bard of the American Redoubt” – Alex Barron.

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Shawn Vestal: A jumble of numbers obscures the need on the street

Wed., Jan. 5, 2022

Hundreds of people have filled the homeless shelter the city hastily threw together at the convention center to prevent people from dying on the streets in the latest deep freeze.

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Shawn Vestal: Researchers forecast a hard-to-imagine West – one without snow

Sun., Dec. 26, 2021

If you ever lived on a farm, or in a farming community, the idea of praying for snow won’t be unfamiliar to you.

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Shawn Vestal: Medical journal decks the halls with silly science for the season

Fri., Dec. 24, 2021

As we come to the close of a year that left a lot of us short on “comfort, sparkle and space to imagine a better future,” we might turn to an unusual place for a little holiday cheer.

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Shawn Vestal: A brutal year on the streets for those who died without a place to live

UPDATED: Tue., Dec. 21, 2021

It seemed as if the list of names would not end.

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Shawn Vestal: The anti-Rodgers pays the cost of courage in modern GOP

Sun., Dec. 19, 2021

Ever since Liz Cheney outmaneuvered Cathy McMorris Rodgers for her spot in House leadership a few years back, the Wyoming Republican has served as a kind of opposite number to the congressional representation we have here.

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Shawn Vestal: Bell ringers in short supply as the holiday approaches

Fri., Dec. 17, 2021

The late-morning temperature had barely crept above freezing, but Mikel Gates was keeping things warm at his red kettle outside Fred Meyer.

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