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Then and Now: Spokane Community College

Before World War II, if you weren’t going for a four-year college degree, a few private colleges and trade schools offered alternatives. Many private schools...

Motley Fool: Up with smoke

You want cheap? How about Marlboro cigarette maker Altria Group (NYSE: MO), with its stock recently down more than 47% from a 2017 peak? A...

New reopening plan, same frustrations: Spokane, rural leaders still want more flexibility fighting virus

It’s a new year, with a new state system of COVID-19 restrictions, but Spokane-area officials are feeling familiar frustrations. After the sustained and highest level...

Getting There: Dedicated bus rapid transit lanes on Division? Planners push to make it happen, fast

Imagine two of North Division Street’s six lanes of traffic are closed to cars and primarily dedicated instead to electric rapid-transit buses. They drop off...

100 years ago in Spokane: Defense attorneys argue newspaper bias in Van Skike manslaughter trial

Attorneys for W.J. Van Skike used a modern-sounding strategy for contesting his conviction for manslaughter. They blamed the media. The attorneys claimed, in an affidavit,...

Takeout business brisk, but not overwhelming during pandemic Super Bowl

As Tom Brady tossed touchdown passes to Rob Gronkowski in Tampa, Fla., bartenders and chefs in Spokane feverishly slung drinks and pizzas to their hungry...

Rob Curley: What happens when an entire community decides to be study buddies? Let's find out

It’s an idea that’s been floating around for a while, but never to the point where it felt like it should be a priority. It...

Front & Center: Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort Hotel CEO Laura Penney seen as standard-setter with safe reopening during pandemic

Nearly six months after becoming CEO of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel, Laura Penney was faced with undoubtedly the greatest challenge of her career:...

Spokane's enforcement against homeless camps has slowed

The team dedicated to clearing and cleaning illegal homeless camps in Spokane largely disintegrated last year, and the city is struggling to keep up with...

Shawn Vestal: After a rough COVID-19 winter, glimmers of optimism appear

There is, as Dr. Francisco Velázquez likes to say, light at the end of the tunnel. On the other hand – and this is the...

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