When Chud Wendle – the combative leader of a group of property owners who regularly criticizes City Council members over crime and homelessness – wanted a special report from the police department about crimes committed by transients, he didn’t file a public records request.
As the clock runs out on Frank Burgess’ scoring record at Gonzaga, it’s a good time to revisit a short but revealing chapter from his life in Spokane in the 1960s.
It’s long been clear that the Proud Boys – the “alt-right fight club” that rode the Trump train to prominence and a key role in the Capitol insurrection – are a destructive, malign force.
The long-discussed idea of creating an independent regional agency to coordinate and depoliticize homeless services is taking some large strides toward reality.
On Dec. 21, amid a storm of public feedback, the beleaguered and incompetent North Idaho College Board of Trustees majority received one particularly noteworthy thumbs-up and one particularly noteworthy thumbs-down.
As we began our descent into Phoenix – a city nowhere near our original route – the flight attendant got onto the intercom and began offering us … a credit card deal.
As the city has gone all in on the Trent shelter – and only the Trent shelter – as a response to homelessness, the project has been plagued by questions and inconsistent public statements about its capacity and other issues.