The Spovangelist

“Oh no, here she goes again!” My friends automatically cringe at the word. It doesn’t matter the context or the subject at hand. As soon as I say it: *COMMUNITY* Eyes start to roll, people look out the window, and shift around uncomfortably in their chairs. What is so threatening about this word? Sadly it [...]

Spokane needs a local independent sports blogger. When I say “local” and “independent” that is exactly what I mean. The vast majority of sports blogs out there are products of the newspaper industry trying to make the digital jump. But for some reason these “sports blogs” don’t seem to be very much fun at all. [...]

I live for moments like these: Last night I conducted a Flickr experiment: Searching the terms “spokane rainbow” yielded 6 pages of fairly interesting results. What was even more interesting, however, was the discovery that almost every shot of a rainbow in Spokane (excluding the predictable river pictures and sky-only compositions) displayed some kind of [...]

You may be surprised to learn that a cutting-edge grassroots democracy movement is taking shape right here in Spokane. In response to the lack of agency that local communities face when advocating for their interests, a broad coalition has begun to develop around a new “rights-based” strategy for implementing change. While Envision Spokane is still [...]

Tell everyone you know: An outstandingly progressive Community Kitchen is setting up shop on East Sprague this September. Their plans are so exciting its almost too good to be true, but as Spovangelites we must believe in, manifest and trumpet their success. Excerpts from the One World Everybody Eats Spokane website: Business Model The One [...]

Anyone who knows anything in Spokane should be reading MetroSpokane. It is the most prolific of our local blogs, and covers a wide variety of things including land use, development, urban design, and other tantalizing topics of civic interest. Every once in a while, however, this please-all super blog gets a little edgy – commenting [...]

The Inland Empire would strongly benefit from creating a Regional Coordinator of Young Adult Marketing Initiatives to address the problem of talented young people fleeing our area. This savvy and passionate person would do the following: Collect, organize and compare all the existing demographic data that describes the composition, behavior, assets and outlooks of young [...]

When you ask people in the park what they like about Spokane they say “it’s not too big” and “doesn’t have traffic like Seattle”. Some think Spokanites are “friendly” while others point out our access to nature and recreational resources. On the flip side, comments about barriers to Spokane’s success contain equally generic and uninspired [...]