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Gov. Jay Inslee gave final approval to the Spokane Tribe's casino plans.
ON INLANDER.COM
• Ten years after its original proposal, Gov. Jay Inslee approved
Spokane Tribe's $400 million
casino and retail development. Some are not happy about it.
• A local woman has been running a
needle exchange for the past 25 years. Lynn Everson looks on how she got here,
where she's going.
•
Bed bugs are back and stronger than ever. Now some are
resistant to the power pesticide that once killed them.
•
Elk Fest is this weekend in Browne's Addition. Here is
everything you need to know.
IN OTHER NEWS
• How much are the citizens of
Spokane Valley willing to pay for a
police force with its own identity? That's one of the major questions populating the Valley city council's
discussion about its contract with the Sheriff's Office, which will expire in December 2017. (
Spokesman-Review)
• Washington's
school superintendent says it might be time to
close public schools in the state until the legislature can figure out a way to provide funding, as required by the 2012 state Supreme Court decision.
• Four
new synthetic elements discovered in December 2015 will join 116 others on the periodic table after receiving their
new names and atomic numbers.
• Former Spokane Police Director
Tim Schwering trades desk job for
rookie cop beat. (
Spokesman-Review)
VIDEO
A group of kids in New York
dance in front of an unenthusiastic audience
on the subway to make money.
Some are homeless. "I'm begging without words. I'm begging with a smile," one says. They call themselves "
We Live This."