The Spovangelist

How come Spokane seagulls are more well fed than Spokane homeless? Well fed isn’t the word, just fed more. Seagulls, I suppose, are more predictable. Photo stolen from patia’s Flickr account

It all started with Jon Snyder, creator and former editor of Star Wars Insider, and now the geekdom has exploded in the city council race. John Waite, candidate for Spokane City Council District 3 posed as a player in the game Starcraft, a military science fiction real-time strategy online game much like World of Warcraft. [...]

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 [...]

As part of The Spokane Riverkeepers ongoing relationship with Aveda for their Aveda Earth Month, The Riverkeeper has teamed up with the Aveda store at Riverpark Square to create a video for the Aveda Earth Month video contest. The video that gets the most views on YouTube wins $3,000. That’s $3,000 that we’ll invest right [...]

How do we solve the dropout dilemma without teachers? The Spokesman reported an unprecedented 238 layoffs were sent today, Elementary school teachers hit the hardest where a Gonzaga study identified early intervention as the highest priority. As of last year, Spokane Schools experienced a 38 percent dropout rate, this year the rate has dropped to 30 percent. [...]