Subscribe now

Avista’s silence

Just wondering why we haven’t heard from Avista during these COVID times. I know they put off thinking of developing their park by where the homeless hang out, and I know they accidentally overcharged the city a couple of a million dollars last year. Maybe they are not stressed for money at this time while all the restaurants and businesses are.

They charge business rates a lot higher than residential rates, and of course restaurants use a lot of power, especially. Power is a large part of the overhead for these businesses. What I’m saying is if they care about how they present their own business in Spokane at this time maybe they could have special COVID rates for a few months for businesses, since they won’t collect if they go down anyway, or some other kind of concession along this line. Maybe to homeless shelters, also?

Step up Avista, and make yourself more popular with this city. Or, remain silent until you want to raise your rates again.

Francie Armstrong

Spokane

Letters policy

The Spokesman-Review invites original letters on local topics of public interest. Your letter must adhere to the following rules:

  • No more than 250 words
  • We reserve the right to reject letters that are not factually correct, racist or are written with malice.
  • We cannot accept more than one letter a month from the same writer.
  • With each letter, include your daytime phone number and street address.
  • The Spokesman-Review retains the nonexclusive right to archive and re-publish any material submitted for publication.

Unfortunately, we don’t have space to publish all letters received, nor are we able to acknowledge their receipt. (Learn more.)

Submit letters using any of the following:

Our online form
Submit your letter here
Mail
Letters to the Editor
The Spokesman-Review
999 W. Riverside Ave.
Spokane, WA 99201
Email
editor@spokesman.com
Fax
(509) 459-3815
Phone
(509) 459-5430

Read more about how we crafted our Letters to the Editor policy