
Stories by Shawn Vestal
Current Position: columnist
Shawn Vestal joined The Spokesman-Review in 1999. He currently is a columnist for the City Desk.
- shawnv@spokesman.com
- Phone
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All Stories
Shawn Vestal: A war over words sits at the heart of a court ruling over racist covenants
UPDATED: Fri., Feb. 26, 2021
Shawn Vestal: Crisis puts brighter spotlight on sports spending at WSU, EWU
UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 25, 2021
Shawn Vestal: Police contract better, but remains far from the spirit of voters’ call for independent oversight
UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 23, 2021
Shawn Vestal: From an unforeseen corner comes a push to return dam-breaching to the discussion
UPDATED: Sun., Feb. 14, 2021
Shawn Vestal: Reform will require blocking police unions from impeding accountability
UPDATED: Thu., Feb. 11, 2021
Shawn Vestal: The synagogue vandal grows from an entire ecosystem of hatred
Wed., Feb. 10, 2021
Shawn Vestal: After a rough COVID-19 winter, glimmers of optimism appear
Sun., Feb. 7, 2021
Stolen by COVID: Four lives, driven by deep passions, ended too soon by a pandemic
UPDATED: Sun., Jan. 31, 2021
Stolen by COVID: Lives remembered
UPDATED: Sun., Jan. 31, 2021
Shawn Vestal: As one Trump conspiracy dies, James Allsup returns to offer another
Fri., Jan. 22, 2021
Shawn Vestal: A COVID-19 death, turned into both a memorial and a mask campaign
Fri., Jan. 8, 2021
Shawn Vestal: Cancer called, and a Spokane poet answered with a moving inventory of precious moments
UPDATED: Sun., Dec. 27, 2020
Shawn Vestal: In this dark night of a year, newborn children arrive like a sunrise
Fri., Dec. 25, 2020