BREAKING: A lawyer for former Spokane health officer Dr. Bob Lutz says he has signed a $1.65M settlement with the health district in his wrongful termination lawsuit. The health board met in executive session earlier this week but did not publicly vote on anything www.inlander.com/news/lawyer-...

Are any WA lawmakers working to address scam/possibly AI calls? I’ve posted about it on Facebook before and several friends are also experiencing exorbitant voicemails offering personal loans. They’re prerecorded and purportedly come from vaguely named places like “the lending department.”

Today’s exciting vote tally in Spokane County saw the race for D1 Spokane City Council flip to Sarah Dixit. Plus, Together Spokane for sure passed, and in Cheney one City Council seat keeps flipping www.inlander.com/news/dixit-s...

Just under a year ago, my colleague Whitney Bryen and I began hearing about women in Idaho prisons being sexually abused by staff. We investigated — and what we've found since has shocked us. Today, the first two stories in our 6(!)-part series were published.

Thank you!

Come learn about Spokane City Council candidates at tonight’s Spotlight forum at the Central Library hosted by @merrywanderer.bsky.social @elizabillingham.bsky.social Clarinne Kirk of the Gonzaga Bulletin and me. events.spokanelibrary.org/event/14682571

This week’s cover story features Donna Miser, who, like thousands of women, got what’s often referred to as the “sling” procedure to help with urinary incontinence. The plastic mesh (and method) used has created horrific complications for her and many others www.inlander.com/news/airway-...

I didn’t include this context in this story, but I think this is worth remembering: if you work full time at federal min wage ($7.25/hr) you earn just $15,080/year. 138% of fed poverty level is ≈ $10.38/hr full time. More than 20 states use fed min wage.

For the last 40 minutes, we've been monitoring a small group of protesters near Riverpark Square and attempts by Spokane Police, and also Councilmember Paul Dillon and a local organizer, to get the protesters to go home. We've been unable to identify explicit demands the group have

I was too tired to stay, but Spokane News has still been out and showed Spokane police telling people they needed to disperse in front of City Hall and then going in to make arrests from the looks of it www.facebook.com/share/v/15kr...

Seems everything has fizzled out finally. If anyone is still going it’s a very small group. I’m peacin’ out for the evening ✌️

Most of the crowd turned around and marched the other way

Officers are telling the crowd to turn around or force will be used against them

Guy with the megaphone trying to calm down one feisty protester

Things getting tense as protesters are getting in the face of some officers

Spokane police are telling people to turn around and continue west

Group is splitting back toward Division?

Spokane No Kings heading toward the ICE facility

Spokane No Kings march now being funneled back toward the pride festivities

Crowd is moving through Riverfront Park again

This match just won’t quit

Officers tried to stop the march and funnel folks back into the park but they ended up just going around….

Back on Washington again…. I asked someone with a megaphone - hey where y’all goin? “Idk I’m just a lemming” and if that isn’t evident about this march idk what is 😂 just wandering. Just vibes.

Bernard and Main

Marchers have filed back into Riverfront Park

“This is what democracy looks like!”

No Kings march on Monroe Street in Spokane. Heading back toward the park now

Marchers now on the bridge and sidewalks

We got back toward the front of the crowd again

Some are heading into Monroe Street Bridge

This is still goin

Spokane police following the tail end of this march

Looks like the march is not continuing up Washington to the site of Wednesday’s protests

Spokane bike officers trying to stop the crowd to at least let traffic flow as this gets started

Spokane march heading toward Washington Street

No Kings rally turns into a march in Spokane

Now marching on Howard

“Whose streets? Our streets!”

People are starting to march in the street in Spokane

More signs in Spokane

More chanting in an absolutely packed field by the Red Wagon at Riverfront Park

“No Kings”

Lots of cars driving by and honking support in Spokane at the No Kings rally

Some signs in the crowd

“Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go”

As the No Kings rally in Spokane is already ramping up a truck with a Trump flag rolls coal on the crowd

NEW - We sent a letter to Spokane city officials calling for restraint, transparency, and the protection of protesters’ constitutional rights, after officers arrested 30 people at a June 11 protest against unjust immigration enforcement.

Colton and I continued reporting today to answer some questions from last night’s protests in Spokane. What types of less-lethal round were used and why? What‘a the status of two protestors who were charged with felonies? Could more people face charges? www.inlander.com/news/spokane...

Spokane County Sheriff’s Corporal Mark Gregory tells me their department fired one 40 mm blue nose foam baton (which appears to be what’s pictured here) and the department does not use rubber bullets. They also fired three bean bag rounds per what their deputies reports say so far.

With ICE detentions on the rise and immigrants fearful of coercion, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law many immigrant protection bills. www.inlander.com/news/new-was...