ON INLANDER.COM
• This week's
cover story explores
issues facing transgender people in the midst of the latest American culture war. (Officials from
11 states have filed lawsuits challenging Obama's sweeping directive that all public schools allow transgender students to
use bathrooms that match their gender identity.)
• Willie Nelson is working with one
local weed grower to produce
Willie's Reserve, his own brand of weed.
• Got
warrants in the city? Get 'em taken care of
June 9th,
no questions asked.
• Councilman
Breean Beggs has answers, but
will the city listen?
IN OTHER NEWS:
• An apparent
murder-suicide on UCLA's campus yesterday left two dead. Police identified the shooter as Mainak Sarkar. The victim has been identified as UCLA engineering professor William Klung, who Sarkar accused of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, the
LA Times reports. Additionally, a woman on a "kill list" in the suspected shooter's home was found dead in Minnesota, according to the
Associated Press.
• Spokane gives the (third) most bang for your
minimum wage buck, according to a
new study. (
Spokesman-Review)
• One man has been
waiting on Rikers Island for six years to stand trial. Eighty-seven percent of Rikers' approximately 10,000 inmates have not yet been tried, according to a report from
The Intercept.
• Spokane Valley City Council names
six finalists to fill two vacant seats. They are:
1.
Jonathan "Caleb" Collier — letter carrier, precinct committee officer for the Republican Party.
2.
Pamela Joan Haley — Spokane business owner
3.
Frank Edward Hutchison — owner of Hutchison Solutions
4.
Michael J. Munch — president of Able Construction LLC, former treasurer of Stevens County Republican Party
5.
Michelle René Rasmussen — director of parking and transportation at EWU.
6.
David Wiyrick — former Spokane County undersheriff, small-biz owner.