Thin slices and a modest proposal for a pawcus

• One reader contacted editor Steve Smith to ask why the West Central Community Center for Hillary - Reader did not like choice of venue.
• Pick up your nearest Spokane7 - former KGA talker Rebecca Mack has her first Hard7 column as correspondent for the S-R.
• Check out the new audio slideshow at Video Journal about Marshall Chesrown’s ranch. The story is coming Sunday in the print edition.
• HOME: “Apparently that was something people pulled out and saved for a very long time,” said HOME editor Cheryl-Anne Millsap, who said feedback is still coming in from people who miss seeing HOME as its separate magazine-style section. Now it’s a weekly feature in the Today section. Past issues of HOME are still available here online at s-r.com/home

Coming up

The Today section will have a story about the animal rights movement gaining supporters.

“Are we giving them the right to vote?” Smith asked, to which features editor Ken Paulman said not quite yet.

Just in time for the caucus, they said it would be nice to have a pawcus in which staffers could set up two food bowls labeled with two candidates names, set loose a herd of cats and do a head count. And that could be a video. That would be just as aggravating, said reporter Jim Camden who will be doing lead campaign coverage today.

This may go without saying, but stay tuned for today’s coverage from both venues - the Fox Theater and the West Central Community Center. The plan today is to send two reporters to each venue. Here are the links we have: