Two Into One

The SPD and the County Sheriff's Department should eliminate redundancy and merge. It's worked in other cities.

Chief Concerns

The U.N. and City Hall

Happy Tax Day

Think of it this way: Paying your taxes fights off cynicism

Big in the Small-Time

Whitworth’s vying for a national championship on the back of a kid who was cut from his high school team

Peep Show

ChatRoulette is hilarious, disturbing, entertaining and odd. Kinda like real life.

Ascetic Love

The Last Station, covering the final year of Tolstoy’s life, highlights the struggle between natural impulses and restraint

Big Hair, Big Laughs

In laughing and crying, in camaraderie and tragedy, the Civic’s six-woman ensemble mostly succeeds in Steel Magnolias

A Short-Staffed Sheriff and Nukes

The Spokane sheriff restructures, Hanford waste lurks and Eastern turns down more financial control

Why Things Are Getting Worse

Pseudo-conservative fundamentalists worry about losing status. And they just want somebody to hate.