ON INLANDER.COM
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NEWS: What will happen to the 107 people, most with chronic mental illness, when downtown Spokane's
Carlyle Care Center can no longer house them?
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MUSIC: D.C.-based rapper
Oddisee drops some wisdom on art in the era of Donald Trump, rap music as American literature and the hypocrisy in hip-hop and in all of us. He plays the Big Dipper on Saturday.
IN OTHER NEWS:
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Comey over
Questions continue to surround
James Comey's ouster as FBI Director in the middle of the Bureau's investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. (
New York Times). And with comparisons to Nixon's Watergate scandal, Charles P. Pierce asks,
'Are there any Republican heroes left?' (
Esquire)
• DNA match brings confession to unsolved assaults
A Spokane man who pleaded guilty to voyeurism after taking a picture of a stranger in a park bathroom is
linked by DNA to other unsolved sex crimes. (KXLY)
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Fake opioids kill more
Overdose deaths involving the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl (the same drug that killed Prince)
have increased in Washington state, according to state and university data. (
Seattle Times)
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Rub some dirt on it
Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation filled a 400-square-foot hole with dirt
left by a collapsed waste-storage tunnel. (
Spokesman-Review)