Tag Archives: Young People

Comfort Food and Flirting with Confidence

By The Revelator With winter coming there are always two things I crave the most, comfort food and comfortable loving. Unfortunately for me, neither comes easy. My “foodie” friends laugh at my failed attempts to cook while my “coupled” friends look on with sad eyes at my failed attempts at love. Both call for the [...]

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Preserving Spokane’s human capital, one program at a time.

By Jan Fletcher Community infrastructure — we use it everyday, but how does it come to be? For most it appears to spring up out of the ground, creating muddy holes we must pick our way through, slowly revealing a skeleton that is eventually clothed in brick and mortar, or metal and glass. These are [...]

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Head Over Wheels for Vote Bike

When Jafar and Nasim wanted to show the world the peaceful wishes of the Iranian people, they hopped on their bikes to ride around the globe. When Nathan Winters wanted to pay tribute to the work of the Nature Conservancy, he did the same thing. Vote Bike is a generation in Spokane standing up to [...]

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Trick or Vote Spokane 2010

By The Apostate I hope this fourth post involving young people and politics really gets the point across. Young people need to shake off the apathy, vote and contribute. Do I really need to bring the statistics in to this again? Or can I consider you spooked enough to get involved? This November holds several [...]

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Westboro Whirlwind

What would Spokane’s Referendum 71 results have looked like if our local Approve campaign had benefited from all the fervor stirred up in response to Thursday’s visit by the Westboro “Baptist Church”? Think about it. Before we spend time and energy decrying the outlandish statements of a few Fred Phelps followers, perhaps we should take [...]

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