The latest issue of the Inlander is hitting newsstands today. Find it at your local grocery store and hundreds of other locations; use this map to find a pickup point near you. You can also read through the entire print edition here.
HIGHLIGHTS
This week’s cover story is all about privacy — how it’s quickly disappearing and why the coronavirus is only complicating matters. For years, we’ve been unwitting co-conspirators. Giant companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon never really wanted us to read the fine print, and so every time we’ve clicked “OK,” they’ve taken it as a license to do whatever they want. The good news: People are beginning to pay attention, to see how this power can be abused, and Washington state is taking a leading role in that effort.
• Plus, we have a look at how online education is leaving behind lots of missing kids as well as a profile of a few brave new businesses opening their doors up during a pandemic.
HITTING THE STREETS
Our staff photographer Young Kwak was in Sandpoint on Friday to document a protest against Idaho’s stay-home order. It was one of several such protests against social-distancing restrictions around the country. Check out Young’s dramatic photos here.
SOURCE OF PRIDE
Meanwhile, Prakash Gatta, a MultiCare surgeon who survived COVID-19, is proud of Washington state’s coronavirus response. "Those people who died in Kirkland actually helped save a lot of lives," he says. Read Daniel Walters’ story here.
TIMES A-CHANGIN’
The MAC’S annual ArtFest is moving online, and the traditional Mother's Day Tour of Homes is canceled. More here.
LAST WORD
The coronavirus has presented a dilemma to cities and homeless shelters everywhere: How do you keep people who are homeless safe without crowding them too close in a shelter? In Coeur d'Alene, St. Vincent de Paul has an idea.
