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Thomas Clouse

Thomas Clouse

Current Position: reporter

Thomas Clouse joined The Spokesman-Review in 1999. He is currently the business reporter. He previously worked as an investigative reporter for the City Desk and covering federal, state and local courts for many years.

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Forest Service dispatcher honored for work in Canfield Mountain shooting

Haley Schelin's co-worker walked outside of their office on June 29, 2025, and snapped a cellphone photo of smoke on Canfield Mountain in Coeur d'Alene. "Have we got calls on this?" the dispatcher asked Schelin, 31, who is the assistant center manger for the Coeur d'Alene Interagency Dispatch. That afternoon quickly escalated. 
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Public defenders sue Spokane County over work standards

The attorneys hired by Spokane County to represent those who can't afford lawyers have sued their handlers over a sets of standards that the public defenders believe both violate the state constitution and could put the commissioners in jeopardy of future lawsuits filed by defendants who could claim that they didn't receive effective counsel.
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State revokes license of used car dealer in Spokane

A small used car dealership on East Sprague has lost its license to do business after several customers complained that they purchased cars there without receiving the corresponding titles of ownership.
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Feds reinstate massive grant for University of Idaho agriculture project

What had been the largest grant ever given to the University of Idaho, before federal officials rescinded it last year, has now become the largest do-over in school history as the same agency leaders decided to re-award the grant that will be used by Gem State farmers to find new ways to market their specialty growing methods and crops.
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Spokane emergency responders practice wildfire evacuation

A brisk spring morning, and volunteers milling around table with a half-ravaged collection of muffins, gave little reflection Saturday to the serious nature of the exercise: How do emergency crews evacuate a very large Spokane housing development that has only a couple main roads for everyone to escape a wildfire.