Tom Sowa

Spokane Mayor Jack Geraghty doesn't care that it's mostly a publicity stunt. He'll take the money and grin. Two radio disc jockeys Monday night handed Geraghty a $1,727 check to pay off their parking ticket, plus 88 other tickets of station listeners.

Linda Clark has created the only locally written and produced magazine devoted entirely to computers. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Clint Kruiswyk is director of the Education Technology Support Center. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

Matthew Wood says Spokane citizens don't need more information from their City Council. They need better ways to tell the council what's on the public's mind. Wood set aside part of his Spokane computer bulletin board for citizens to talk about city matters and to send messages to City Council members.

Day of disappointment. Former Gonzaga students Kevin West and Dave Hamad caught a ride to Boise, then took a flight to Salt Lake City, arriving for GU's game with only five minutes to spare. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Two disabled Spokane men are asking state officials to give them electronic copies of Washington's state court decisions. On the surface, it seems to be a case of disabled people asking for something they cannot get in any other form.

With no place else to go, leaders of Spokane's Marketplace pleaded Wednesday with their former landlord for a 15-year lease. They went away with nothing more than kind words and wishes of good luck. The Spokane Joint Center for Higher Education board heard the appeal for a new lease on the Division and Riverside site the market used the past four years to sell crafts and food.

Rushworth Kidder Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

While reading messages on the Internet, Aaron Armendares spotted something he'd never seen before: "Jewish revisionist exposes Holocaust fraud." The person posting the message, "Naziboy," offered a free video proving nowhere near 6 million Jews were killed during World War II.

It's 9 p.m. and Gail Hoover knows exactly where her teenagers are. They're looking over her shoulder, waiting for her to get off the home computer so they can dial up a local bulletin board and chat with friends. They'll have to wait because Hoover is getting her nightly fix of keyboard chat. That's where people across town or across the globe exchange nearly simultaneous remarks over the Internet, the vast network of computer users worldwide.

The message poking fun at a coworker's haircut or speculating about an office romance looks fleeting enough. It pops up on the computer screen, and with a tap on the keyboard is gone. Think again.

Globetrotters magic. Harlem Globetrotter Kelvin "Special K" Hildreth works with a charged-up Eddie Poblet, 9, at the YWCA's Homeless School on Friday. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

A large fireball streaking across the region Thursday night was probably a massive meteor, astronomers said Friday. Scientists at Washington State University and Eastern Washington University agreed on one point: Whatever people saw was huge. Moscow, Idaho, resident Lynda Ballard was driving north near that city shortly after 7 p.m. when she spotted a fast-moving object burning through the night sky. It was headed northwest, generally toward the Spokane Valley, she said.

Mary and Richard Hartman have been called pioneers in cyberpolitics. Photo by Associated Press

Computer users connected to the Internet can track updated information on Japan's devastating earthquake. The global network of computers is buzzing with photos, eyewitness reports and even a piece of fiction written last year about a gigantic earthquake rocking the Land of the Rising Sun. Internet users have dozens of ways to get updates from the area of Japan hit by the quake.

Researchers and book browsers can scour Spokane Public Library shelves and magazine files without leaving their home or office. The library is now offering those with computers and modems access to its collection and to more than 2,000 magazines that can be searched by keyword or topic.

Post Falls homeowners Laurie and Fred Kazlauskas say their $2,000 electronic home security system makes them feel protected whether they are home or not. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

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