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2 years

Big student walkout for gun reform at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane Kids chanting: “Thoughts and prayers are not enough”

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BREAKING: Washington State Department of Transportation says they will NOT be complying with Spokane official's order to dismantle the Camp Hope cooling shelter by Monday

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"Ultimately, the safety and well-being of people is our paramount concern. In response to the city administration’s notice of violation, the state will not take action during this extreme weather to remove the cooling center."

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2 years

Group of about a dozen fascists matching through downtown Spokane

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6 months

More than 200 Spokane churches were asked to open their doors to homeless people during dangerously cold weather — four agreed. Over the weekend, temps plunged below zero. Here's how it went:

More than 200 Spokane churches were asked to open their doors to homeless people during dangerously...

It's the same every year. A dangerous cold snap is forecast. Hundreds of unhoused people are in danger of freezing to death, and there isn't...

www.inlander.com

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1 year

Covering local politics is actually so much fun

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2 years

This encampment began as a protest to the city administration’s inaction to provide social and health services and their treatment of individuals experiencing homelessness.

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2 years

Wrote about how online amateur detectives can help the Moscow police solve the University of Idaho murders:

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1 year

Both sold out, but if anyone has extra tickets to either of these events please let me know. I’m trying to write about every facet of the American experience this weekend

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9 months

Spokane City Council voted 4-3 to formally denounce the mayor for appearing with Matt Shea last month.

Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

9 months

Packed house at city council ahead of tonight’s vote to denounce the mayor’s appearance with Matt Shea

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2 years

The state has repeatedly requested the city administration engage and find constructive solutions to ensure basic public safety and health standards are met and find safer shelter and long-term housing options.

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@sanford_nate

2 years

WA state responded to Spokane’s order to remove 600-person homeless camp with a strongly worded letter calling the sweep deadline “arbitrary and misleading” “Acting on the city’s ill-considered demand solves nothing for anyone”

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4 years

Western just fired all resident advisors and apartment advisors. Thats 80+ student employees

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2 years

“Problems don’t solve themselves” "Don't stay silent, end gun violence" "The fact that LC never had a shooting is a statistical error, why are we the exception?"

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2 years

"We are hopeful the city administration and city council will coalesce behind a plan. Until then, we will continue to review other local proposals submitted last week and allow non-profit organizations to continue helping individuals in need."

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

9 months

Packed house at city council ahead of tonight’s vote to denounce the mayor’s appearance with Matt Shea

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

8 months

Lisa Brown is going to be Spokane’s next mayor. Her statement:

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3 years

New: 20 drag queens organized into a collective and walked away from a prominent Spokane gay bar after disagreements over pay and working conditions

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Nate Sanford

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11 months

Having lots of regrets about earlier tonight when I said no to a guy in riverfront park who stopped me and said: “young man, there’s a free Christian rock concert tonight at the podium , you should check it out”

Joseph (he/him)

@josephdpeterson

11 months

@TPUSA @MayorSpokane Part 2 of “The Mayoral Prayer.”

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

9 months

The mayor didn’t show up to the Gonzaga Climate Change forum, but she did just retweet a post calling it a “conference meant to virtue signal” Dozen of college students — and all six council candidates — are here to talk about the existential threat of climate change?

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2 years

NEW: A judge just signed off on a restraining order to stop the sheriff, city and county from sweeping Camp Hope

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@sanford_nate

2 years

Some parents on the outskirts, one says she came both to support her kids and because she was worried about what would happen if someone targeted the event itself

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@sanford_nate

2 years

Context:

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

8 months

Here’s the moment when Pro-Palestinian protestors shut down tonight’s Spokane city council meeting:

Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

8 months

Council meeting broke out in chants of “Free Palestine,” council members left quickly, cops flooded in

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Nate Sanford

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2 years

Sitting down for a moment of silence:

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Nate Sanford

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4 years

A student at the WWU Newman Center was forced to resign after coming out to her boss as lesbian This is the first part of an investigative series I've been working on for a while, please give it a read

Behind the systems: WWU Newman Center forced resignation of student employee after learning of...

The Western Front is the official newspaper of Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.

www.westernfrontonline.com

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

Here’s a clip of John Oliver talking about my article on Last Week Tonight:

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Nate Sanford

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2 years

The nearest city-authorized cooling shelter is a library a mile away. Residents told me the library is insufficient because: -some people have mobility issues -some have pets -most people are afraid to leave tents unattended -600+ unhoused people cannot fit in a library

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2 years

*This was a joint statement from WSDOT and the WA Department of Commerce

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Nate Sanford

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2 years

Probably a good time for some ✨personal news✨ I’m joining @TheInlander as a staff writer in May!

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7 months

Mayor-elect Lisa Brown introduces her transition team:

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8 months

🚨Parents! Be sure to check your kids Halloween candy this year, people are hiding election season attack ads in the candy bars

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

Last night's school board meeting opened with a moment of silence as well. For Uvalde and for a student at Bryant/TEC who died 2 weeks ago. There were rumors that a group was going to show up during public comment and push for arming teachers but thankfully that did not happen.

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2 years

TDLR: Spokane city admin: remove 600+ homeless people from Camp Hope or face legal action WA state: no 🙃

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@sanford_nate

8 months

Council meeting broke out in chants of “Free Palestine,” council members left quickly, cops flooded in

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

The sheriff describes Camp Hope as “disgusting” and full of crime. He hasn’t been himself. I asked him to visit with me and he said no. He did, however, ask me to tour a nonexistent homeless camp over the weekend:

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@sanford_nate

2 years

Spokane County Prosecutor: “I fully recognize my wife’s right to express her thoughts” The thoughts:

Daniel Walters

@danielwinvw

2 years

On alt-right-infested Gab, the wife of Spokane County's elected prosecutor declares she's a "white nationalist" and calls Joy Reid the N-word. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

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8 months

Spokane progressives had a good night. Results are still uncertain and facing delays because of today's threats to WA election offices. But overall, Spokane seems to have leaned left. Here's a report form last night's election parties:

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2 years

Wrote about the True Crime Content Machine, the Moscow murders and the need to assign narrative to every act of senseless violence:

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

5 months

A Liberty Lake City Council member posted this screenshot yesterday with a photoshopped headline/photo over my byline. A couple people seem to have been confused and thought it was real. For the record: It's fake. We never published that.

Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

6 months

More than 200 Spokane churches were asked to open their doors to homeless people during dangerously cold weather — four agreed. Over the weekend, temps plunged below zero. Here's how it went:

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Nate Sanford

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2 years

#govikings #wwu #makewaves

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Nate Sanford

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3 years

Unlike in the past, the current wave of COVID in Whatcom is impacting all age groups equally, including people in their early 20s. Cases doubled over the past week and the vast majority are from indoor social gatherings Now is literally the most important time to stop hanging out

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10 months

Spokane mayor says she didn't know Matt Shea would be at Christian nationalist concert headlined by Matt Shea's Christian nationalist buddy

Spokane mayor says she didn't know Matt Shea would be at Christian nationalist concert headlined by...

On Sunday evening, while parts of Spokane County burned, Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward appeared on stage at a Christian nationalist concert and worship event and...

www.inlander.com

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@sanford_nate

2 years

First week in Spokane! I’m planning to cover a whole range of newsy topics, if you wanna get in touch my new work email is nates @inlander .com

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2 years

I haven't been able to get a response from the city yet, but if Spokane actually follows through, WSDOT will get hit with a daily $536 fine starting Mon. Here's the order the city sent to WSDOT on Weds. And the statement they sent me on Thurs. after it started leaking to press:

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

8 months

Funny piece of art hanging on the wall at Woodward’s election watch party at Barister Winery

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1 year

In 2019, the Spokane sheriff publicly fired a sergeant for allegedly using a racial slur in a violent context. Three years later, that former sergeant is getting $19.5 million as part of a record jury award for defamation. What happened?

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7 months

Full story on Brown's massive, 92-person transition team.

Mayor-elect Lisa Brown introduces a (very large) transition team of 92 people

Lisa Brown is bringing a very large group of community leaders together to help advise her as she prepares to take office as mayor of...

www.inlander.com

Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

7 months

Mayor-elect Lisa Brown introduces her transition team:

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

Contributed some reporting to this NYT story about the arrest of the Moscow murder suspect today. Stay tuned for more updates:

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

Police arrested a 28-year-old criminology student on Friday and charged him with murder in the brutal killing of four University of Idaho college students who were found stabbed to death in a home near their campus last month.

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Nate Sanford

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7 months

Wrote about a Spokane woman who tried to take Trump off the WA ballot with a similar lawsuit citing the 14th Amendment a few weeks ago. A Superior Court judge dismissed it, citing timing/procedural issues. The woman says she plans to try again.

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7 months

Breaking: The Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump is disqualified from holding office, citing section three of the 14th Amendment, removing him from the state’s 2024 ballot.

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2 years

The excessive heat warning ends Sunday night, but the current forecast still has temperatures at a high of 97 on Monday.

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@sanford_nate

1 year

Spokane City Council votes 6-1 to give ombudsman authority to directly investigate police chief

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3 years

First day in the IRL newsroom!

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

Tucker: AXED Lemon: CANNED Silver: LAID OFF Walters: LEAVING amiably for an exciting new opportunity

Daniel Walters

@danielwinvw

1 year

Daniel Walters is OUT at the Pacific Northwest Inlander (after May) in yet another seismic media shakeup this week!

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Nate Sanford

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11 months

Washington cities are grappling with a return to drug criminalization as overdose deaths outpace the nation. In Spokane, people can now be jailed for public use In the midst of it all, @erickdoxey and I spent a weekend talking to the people most impacted

We spent a weekend at Spokane's most notorious intersection. Here's what we saw.

The intersection of Second Avenue and Division Street in Spokane has a reputation. It's a major thoroughfare, just a few blocks from the downtown core....

www.inlander.com

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Nate Sanford

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1 year

Happy valentines day. Conservative influencer Patriot Barbie traveled to Coeur d'Alene this weekend and was horrified to find copies of our Love and Sex issue lying around — it's still on stands for another day so check it out yourself!

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@sanford_nate

3 years

I’m still kind of amazed that 3 Spokane board of health members refused to say if they’d been vaccinated

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@sanford_nate

1 year

Preview of my cover story tomorrow: "Reclaiming the Streets" America is seeing a horrific uptick in traffic violence and pedestrian deaths. Why is it happening? How can we stop it?

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8 months

Big pro-Palestine rally outside Spokane City Hall: “Long live Palestine” “End occupation, end apartheid” “Israel you can’t hide, you’re committing genocide” “Money for health and education not for war and occupation”

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@sanford_nate

2 years

Earlier this month, Spokane's police chief said the city had spent more than half a million dollars on overtime patrol at Camp Hope. But that's not true.

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

Woodward’s campaign still hasn’t responded to questions about who posted the tweet that was clearly meant for Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodger’s account. But by looking though PDC and FEC reports, we’re able to take an educated guess:

Spokane mayor's tweet was clearly intended for Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers' account — who made the...

Last night, Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward tweeted the following: "I am proud to have led the passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act in the House...

www.inlander.com

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

Confirmed today that Spokane City Council is drafting plans for an outside investigation into reports of the police chief giving "special access" to a small group of commercial property owners.

City Council seeks subpoenas, outside investigation into Spokane police chief's relationship with...

Spokane city council members are drawing up plans for an investigation into police Chief Craig Meidl following revelations that he gave "special access" about internal...

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5 months

Gov. Jay Inslee is coming to Spokane's Central Library next Wednesday to present a statewide "Smart Communities" award for Spokane's widely-praised interim missing middle housing law

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Nate Sanford

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5 months

Unlike in Ohio, the Spokane churches that hosted homeless people are *not* facing criminal charges for taking people in. Spokane's building code has an emergency exemption that the city's code enforcement dept. used during the cold snap to grant the churches special permission⬇️

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I am going to become the Joker

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2 years

Just finished college 🥲

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8 months

Kim Plese just issued a statement conceding the City Council President race, making her the last Spokane city candidate to officially concede this year. Betsy Wilkerson won with 53.06% of the vote.

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8 months

Spokane Democrats campaign watch party has charcuterie in a cone. Will report back on Woodward’s snacks later

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

oh lol that's pretty cool!

Daniel Walters

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1 year

. @Sanford_Nate makes Last Week Tonight this week, tonight.

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1 year

I’m glad people noticed the irony we thought it was funny too

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

3 years

New piece for @Crosscut I talked with workers in transit, grocery and food service. After a year on the frontline, many wonder why they're still waiting for the shot

WA is reopening but many essential workers aren’t vaccinated yet

How the state chose who to inoculate first raises questions about equity — especially for restaurant, grocery and transit workers.

crosscut.com

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

NEW: The city offered to provide electricity and water to Camp Hope, but only if the state DOT gave them a list of campers' names, agreed to a Dec. 1 deadline and other demands. WSDOT felt like the city was using basic human needs as a "bargaining chip"

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2 years

They said they’re with the White Lives Matter group, stressed that they’re not associated with Patriot Front. All masked and at least one carrying an AR. They’re handing out racist pamphlets

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6 months

If any neighbors thought they saw a car getting broken into near one of the homeless warming shelters this evening please know that it was actually just a reporter on assignment who locked himself out of his car and there’s nothing to worry about lol

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1 year

Huge turnout for an 8 am public presentation on regionalizing Spokane’s homeless response

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8 months

Spokane mention in @daveweigel 's election night guide to this year's big high-stakes races:

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

11 months

Between Jan. and June this year, Spokane issued 509 multifamily and mixed-use housing permits. that’s more than any other year on record, and the year’s only halfway done:

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

New WSDOT Camp Hope survey says 83.3% of residents are originally from the greater Spokane area

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@sanford_nate

9 months

Larry Stone funded the homeless camping ban on this year’s ballot, the “Curing Spokane” videos and countless attack ads against progressives. He also owns the city’s largest homeless shelter. We talked last week about his origin story and why he’s doing this:

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2 years

One thing a lot of people don’t realize about Camp Hope is that it’s absolutely loaded with adorable animals

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11 months

Woodward's campaign just sent a new statement with a firmer denouncement of Matt Shea. She denies seeking his endorsement and claims she didn't know he would be there. "I am opposed to his political views as they are a threat to our democracy"

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11 months

@TPUSA @MayorSpokane Part 1 of “The Mayoral Prayer.”

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4 years

[cw: death] Just spoke with the Whatcom medical examiner's office, they're still unable to identify the man's body that was found on campus last week

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

For our outdoors issue, I wrote an essay about going on a long walk, getting lost, running out of water and finding (a) god in Riverside State Park

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

4 years

Big announcement coming: Spring quarter at western will be conducted entirely online. Faculty and staff received an email earlier today, the decision will be officially announced to campus later this afternoon

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

Just to put the $19.5 mill number in context: In 2017, when the sheriff's office was sued over the death of a child hit by a speeding patrol car, the county settled for $1 million. In 2013, the shooting death of a Spokane Valley Pastor resulted in a $2 mill settlement

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

@Carlschirps from @RANGEMedia4all , who broke the story yesterday, got turned away at the door and wasn’t allowed in to the presser

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

"When will Spokane voters get a public safety plan?" The answer, apparently, is today. Here's the plan Brown just released to "stop this downward spiral"

Nadine Woodward

@SpokaneNadine

1 year

It’s been over 100 days since Lisa Brown launched her campaign. When will Spokane voters get a public safety plan?

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

NEW: Emails show special access between the Spokane police chief and a small group of powerful property owners. A lot of people in city hall really upset about it: "There's something wrong... honestly, it's a little bit scary" "It's discrimination"

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

And the timing of the tweet — just hours after @danielwinvw story about the network of former and current McMorris Rodgers staffers pulling behind-the-scenes strings in Spokane politics — is a little on the nose.

How a network of politicos tied to U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers are pulling behind-the-scenes...

Just weeks after Spokane City Council member Jonathan Bingle submitted an ethics complaint against former Council President Ben Stuckart last year, Bingle faced an ethical...

www.inlander.com

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

3 years

new student paper just dropped??

We're changing the name. Here's why

This website is a part of a larger evolution that has been in the works for a while. It couldn’t have happened without the hard work and contributions of numerous past editors. Some of the changes...

www.westernfrontonline.com

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

8 months

The impact of the Matt Shea incident on this year's election is genuinely wild — his name shows up now when you google "spokane mayor"

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

3 years

late announcement but I'm going to be taking over as editor-in-chief of @TheFrontOnline this quarter! @TheLaurenGallup is going to be managing editor and we stoked for spring. There are a few cool changes coming.

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

Moose on the loose in the Manito pond

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

The cool thing about digital media is that people can change a couple random words in the copy and then put their own byline on your work

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

2 years

At least one cop car seemed to be tailing them

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

1 year

"When you compare these two World's Fair icons, ask yourself: Who was this built for?" I wrote a hot take about how Spokane's Pavilion is actually cooler than the Seattle Space Needle

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

9 months

Passed 4-3

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@sanford_nate

1 year

Earlier this month, @propublica published a database showing that universities across the country still hold the remains of thousands of stolen Native American remains. That includes some universities in Eastern WA:

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

10 months

Breaking: The director of Spokane’s Community Housing and Human Services department — which has struggled with high staff turnover and turmoil in recent years — abruptly resigned today.

Spokane's Community Housing and Human Services loses two senior officials, a 'blow' to a department...

Spokane’s Community Housing and Human Services Department — which has struggled in recent years with turmoil and staff turnover — lost its director on Thursday....

www.inlander.com

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

10 months

The fire was as loud as a hurricane and moving like a train. Vibrant orange and red hues twisted and roared with the wind. He could hear neighbors screaming. "I ain't never seen nothing like it in my life" @SAWohlfeil and I on Spokane's weekend inferno:

Destructive fires swept through Spokane County last weekend, killing two and leaving hundreds...

After days of record heat that soared into the triple digits — 14 degrees higher than normal — high winds kicked up last week, and...

www.inlander.com

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Nate Sanford

@sanford_nate

4 years

Not a group of 15 freshmen getting together on campus without masks and spitting on an immune compromised person 🙃 first day of fall quarter 🙃

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