ON INLANDER.COM
• Come on over to Allyson Amstutz's (and her roommates')
house in Pullman, there's some skull-rattlin'
music in their basement and
everyone's invited.
•
Charter schools are legal in Washington state (for now). Staff writer Wilson Criscione checks in on
Spokane's PRIDE Prep.
• Local novelist (and
Spokesman-Review columnist)
Shawn Vestal on influences for his new
novel. (Bonus: read his new piece in the
New Yorker.)
IN OTHER NEWS:
• A Spokane Community College criminal justice professor's
PowerPoint slides used in class reveal
sexist attitudes. The professor,
Mike Prim, is a former Spokane police lieutenant and the chair of SCC's Criminal Justice program. One of his former students filed a Title IX complaint against him. (
Spokesman-Review)
• Country music legend
Merle Haggard died at 79. Take a minute and soak up some "Workin' Man Blues." (Or maybe "
Mama Tried" is more your jam.)
• WSU football coach
Mike Leach and Donald Trump's unique
relationship.
• The
New York Times digs into the
founders of the law firm behind the
Panama Papers — one the
son of a former Nazi, the other a novelist.
• Two men, one with
ties to Spokane, have
escaped from Western State Hospital, a psychiatric facility in Pierce County.
• Obama's fight for his
Supreme Court nominee continues as he
returns to the University of Chicago, where he used to teach. Obama will use his talk to
pressure Senate Republicans into a vote on whether to approve his nominee, Merrick Garland.