Tag Archives: Competition

Near Nature, Near Paralyzed

Spokane parks are a large part of why Spokane is such a glowing gem in the Northwest. It is virtually impossible to find 100 acres of urban park land, or 90 acres of rolling hills and lovingly maintained flower gardens located conveniently in one city– only miles apart, actually. For such a beautiful surface, the Spokane Parks [...]

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Shogan’s Softer Side

Spokane City Council President Joe Shogan is known for running council meetings “his way.” But citizens don’t give him enough credit for his softer side. Whether it’s walking in the Crime Victims Candlelight Vigil or with Human Rights Commission in the Pride Parade, you won’t see much coverage of his kindness. Instead, the reporting is [...]

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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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Flying Fish!

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 [...]

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Spokane’s Self-Esteem Strategy

After Seattle Weekly published their online article about Spokane and G. Love, Spokane commenters went ballistic. So many enraged Spokane based comments led some Seattle based commenters to call Spokane over sensitive, that we have low self-esteem and are basically just whiny. Here’s the sitch, Seattle, we weren’t born awesome. Spokane is a lot like [...]

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