615 days, Plus One

Spokane’s new police oversight commission is finally seated, and launches its first key challenge to the City’s police department.

Tim Connor
As of this morning, it’s actually been 616 days since Spokane voters approved Proposition 1, an amendment to the city charter that was supposed to require independent investigations of citizen complaints against police officers. Continue reading 615 days, Plus One

Partners in Sunshine

Cherie Rodgers and Larry Shook talk about the day they arrived at City Hall to shine a piercing light on Spokane’s most expensive secrets.

The first-ever meeting between Spokane City Councilwoman Cherie Rodgers and former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Guy was not supposed to happen.

Or at least it wasn’t supposed happen this way—with a journalist in the room, furiously taking notes.

The end result was Larry Shook’s timeless story for Camas MagazineJudge Guy Meets Cherie Rodgers.

But how, exactly, did it come about?

That’s one of the questions I put to both of them in an interview earlier this month, which you can listen to here.

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