The Spovangelist

Recently I spent a week in San Francisco soaking up a little big city life. While in many ways it exceeded my expectations, it also reminded me of just how much we have to be thankful for right here at home. It is no secret that real estate in the Bay Area is tricky to [...]

You might remember our Blog Action Day rally post a year ago about sending a message to global leaders to limit carbon emissions to 350ppm in the atmosphere. When all was said and done, the rally was a huge success and the subject generated an obscene number of comments here on the blog. Local advocates [...]

Today I got to participate in a meeting of the Mayor’s Economic Policy and Forecasting Council. All four hours were intensely informative and I wish more people could have opportunities to learn about our region’s economy in such poignant first-person light. The Mayor opened, there was a review from the City, analysis from economic advisers [...]

When I rode by myself to meet the other volunteers for the inaugural Summer Parkways, I had that familiar first date feeling in my stomach like “yeeaaah.” Scientifically known as butterflies. What will happen, I thought, since this has never been done in Spokane? It felt like a historical moment with over half of the [...]

Basketball is a numbers game. From twenty feet away, the idea of putting an inflatable ball with a diameter of roughly nine and a half inches into a basket that is eighteen inches across and ten feet from the ground should defy physics. But that is precisely what happened countless times this last weekend with [...]