
Spokesman Review
The Spokesman-Review is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Spokane in U.S. state of Washington, where it is the city's only daily publication. It has the third highest readership among daily newspapers in Washington, with most of its readership base in eastern Washington. Despite its hometown feel, The Spokesman-Review has been known to take a moderate-to-liberal stance when it comes to opinions ranging from tackling city hall to hate groups in the region. Those (hate) groups have threatened to attack the paper, and at times have made good on that promise. In 1997 three extreme-right militants were tried and eventually convicted of bombing the office of The Spokesman-Review as well as an abortion clinic (see Citizens Rule Book).
Spokane County is poised to pour $5.2 million into hands-on medical treatment to detox and treat drug addicts as elected officials try to slow the deepening fentanyl crisis. The treatment spending, approved by Spokane County commissioners on Tuesday, accounts for most of the $7.2 million made available from initial disbursements of money won from state lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors. “I think that we all know that this epidemic has caused so much damage in our community and all over the nation,” Commissioner Chris Jordan said ahead of the...