Tag Archives: Breaking Boundaries

Urban Growth ought to Grow Agriculture

Moving from place to place is getting expensive as gas reaches a national average of four dollars a gallon. With the rising cost of transportation comes the high price of food. We are going to run out of a reliable fuel source someday, and someday much sooner than we’d all like, most food will become [...]

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Complete our Streets!

The concept is simple. Make walkways, driveways and bikeways safe for walkers, drivers and bicyclists. Get it? Complete Streets Spokane makes transit safer for all users. When it’s safe to get around, the whole city can change the way it moves. It sounds easy but the process is long. It takes tons of work convincing [...]

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Maddening Masculine

Just when we thought a barber shop would be the last place to expect a jingoistic reaction to the death of Osama Bin Laden, the Man Shop is there to prove you wrong. The testosterone fueled hair salon with the tag line ”A Kickass Place For A Guy To Get A Haircut” featuring Maxim-like women wearing tool belts are [...]

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New Wave No Wave

By Taylor Weech Watching “Blank City” alone–as in, the only person in the theater, not just dateless– at the Magic Lantern Theater last week, I came to a series of conclusions. The first of which is: Manhattan in the late 1970’s doesn’t seem too far removed from parts of downtown Spokane, but this is a [...]

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Social Media Proves Racist

Social Media Proves Racist

By Bart Mihailovich Like most Americans on Sunday evening I watched the details of Bin Laden’s death unfold on Facebook and Twitter. As a graduate of journalism school and a self-educated social media aficionado, this exercise was both insightful and saddening. Now I see why Katie Couric and the likes want nothing to do with [...]

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