June 30, 2009
Beat to the Hoop
With seconds remaining, the ball hung on the front of the rim for the time it takes me to fry an egg. Then it fell into the hands of the grateful Kourt Kings.
Read moreJune 22, 2009
Randy and Rocky
The federal criminal indictment in the Otto Zehm case picks up where KREM-TV anchor Randy Shaw left off two years ago in an interview with Assistant City Attorney Rocky Treppiedi.
Read moreJune 6, 2009
The Importance of Being Holly
Why Holly Fauerso was a perfect fit for the Center for Justice.
Read moreJune 3, 2009
A Real Rock Lake Monster
What mad creature would eat a tire off a boat trailer?
Read moreMay 18, 2009
Who’s Killing the Newspapers?
The bleeding of American journalism is causing bigger problems than you might think.
Read moreMay 6, 2009
“And the Earth is Hiring.”
At the University of Portland, Paul Hawken delivers a commencement speech for the ages.
Read moreMay 5, 2009
Who Would Jesus Waterboard?
We’re finally having the national debate about torture. It’s not for the faint of heart.
Read moreRodeo Meets Dancing With the Stars
Mary Harvill explains what happens when a champion bull rider gets his crack at a prime time television audience.
Read moreApril 27, 2009
Farewell to N Reactor
Twenty years ago, Hanford’s largest plutonium reactor was ground zero in a regional and national debate over nuclear weapons and nuclear safety. Today, it’s disappearing one chunk at a time.
Read moreApril 16, 2009
The Policy
The City of Spokane’s explanations in the Sgt. Pete Bunch case confirms what many suspected, that the city has a double standard when it comes to investigating criminality by uniformed officers.
Read moreApril 12, 2009
Obama and the Pirates
Why is the new President behaving like the hostage-in-chief in dealing with the people who’ve brought our country to the brink of economic ruin? UPDATED APRIL 21, Special inspector general finds bailout program “inherently vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse.”–LA TIMES
Read moreApril 9, 2009
‘Spokane-nice,’ Revisited
The bonhomie’s great. Some accountability would be even better.
Read moreMarch 28, 2009
Good on ya, Barry
The Inlander’s Kevin Taylor looks behind the Commercial Building story and finds the good work of CFJ intern Barry Pfundt.
Read moreMarch 23, 2009
Paging Lisa Brown
Lots of questions remain about whether and how state Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown got involved in pushing a bill to weaken water pollution cleanup timelines. So we decided to ask her.
Read moreMarch 22, 2009
The Enlistment
How the bailout of AIG and the megabanks is changing everything we thought we knew about how democracy and capitalism are supposed to work.
Read moreMarch 20, 2009
Daffodils
It’s like I just figured out that the range on my jumpshot is 12 feet, and a proper elegy to welcome the spring that would end this winter is way out at the three point arc, and the best you’d have gotten from me, from there, is a really long, clanging rebound.
Read moreMarch 15, 2009
On Behalf of Otto Zehm
Come what may, the Center’s lawsuit against the City over the death of Otto Zehm engages an important battle for the soul of Spokane.
Read moreMarch 6, 2009
Our River Lawyer Goes to D.C.
The Center’s Rick Eichstaedt takes the case for clean water inside the beltway and finds that the Spokane River is getting national attention.
Read moreJanuary 29, 2009
One World, Bon Appétite
To all those mind-numbing questions about the right way to eat, a restaurant on East Sprague has some creative and flavorful answers.
By Jamie Borgan
January 25, 2009
Senator Cantwell and “Lemon Socialism”
Where the money is going is just the first question.
Read moreJanuary 20, 2009
Ten Tenths of a Party
Center celebrates milestone anniversary on historic day.
Read moreJanuary 19, 2009
Traveling Mercies
By the numbers, the presidency of the United States is not something you’d necessarily wish, right now, upon someone you have good feelings toward.
Read moreJanuary 15, 2009
Regime Change in America
Saying goodbye to the longest eight years.
Read moreJanuary 11, 2009
What if the Bubble is Us?
Why the President-elect’s economic plan may buy us less than we need.
Read moreJanuary 2, 2009
Locked Out. Darn.
When I asked the angry dog why, on such a beautiful day, he would bite me rather than share the trail, that seemed to shame him, and he walked off.
Read moreDecember 14, 2008
Condoleezza Rice and the “T” Word
The Secretary of State’s response to an NPR interviewer’s question about torture is something that she, and the rest of us, should still have to wrestle with.
Read moreDecember 10, 2008
Quite the Invitation
Today, less than 350 of the Tuskegee Airmen are still alive, but the survivors who can make the trip will be seated on the terrace below the podium when President Obama takes the oath of office on January 20th.
Read moreNovember 29, 2008
Regarding Moral Hazard
An unexpected conversation with Spokane’s Chief Financial Officer.
Read moreNovember 28, 2008
Postscript: Word on the Street
I gave him about four bucks and told him to go use that for whatever he needed. He told me thanks and then said, “I probably just broke the law, didn’t I?”
Read moreConfessions of a Soap Sample Boy
Item: People are driving to Idaho to buy dish soap banned from stores in Spokane. How you can have cleaner dishes, make better use of your time, and still help the Spokane River.
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