Shawn Vestal
SpokesmanReview
Spokane, WA, United States
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Shawn Vestal: Probe details extensive communications, favors between police chief and business group
When Chud Wendle – the combative leader of a group of property owners who regularly criticizes City Council members over crime and homelessness – wanted a special report from the police department about crimes committed by transients, he didn’t file a public records request. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Of the forking paths at Camp Hope, one produced results
At some point in the last several months, one of our local social media wags began referring to Camp Hope as Camp Brown. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Another year, another chance to fix Idaho's fatal faith-healing protections
More than seven years ago, Boise attorney Kirt Naylor signed off on a rallying cry to defend Idaho’s children. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Shooting reports were a hoax, but the terror of that hellish half-hour was real
They practice for it now, our children, as they practice for a volleyball game or the school play or the holiday concert. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Mar-A-Lago supper, echoes Allsup strategy for infiltrating the GOP
It was hard – in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago supper between the loathsome Nick Fuentes and the loathsome Donald Trump – not to think about the mostly forgotten (though also loathsome) James Allsup. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Debate revealed more about temperament and style than political positions
One of the great benefits of candidate debates is not that they unearth unknown positions or opinions, but that they give us a chance to see the temperament and demeanor of candidates under pressure, to see how they act when challenged, to see how they think, or don’t, on their feet. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: In the midst of a housing crisis, Mayor Woodward leaves millions on the table
About a month ago, a federal housing official sent a letter to Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward, all but begging her to develop a plan to spend $6 million in federal funds meant to address affordable housing and homelessness. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Mead board wisely rejects the borrowed proposals to corral civics lessons
Maybe the Mead School Board should adopt a policy against plagiarism in proposed policies. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: A quick end to Camp Hope is probably not on the horizon
Winter is coming. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: If Rolovich takes the next step, he'll be facing an unbeaten opponent
Last fall, we went to a great football game in Pullman. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: WSU forced an accounting on its police department
At least WSU was pushing. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: The new downtown library pays rich dividend for the community's investment
We invested in it. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Lack of response to race survey tells a sorry story about sheriff's office
An audit of attitudes about race among deputies in the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office crashed and burned last year, because so few deputies bothered to respond that auditors could not accurately draw conclusions. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Scholarship initiative targets cost, as well as maze of other obstacles
If you’re familiar with the FAFSA – the federal form to apply for financial aid for college – then this may not surprise you. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: In the world of 'election integrity,' no integrity's required
There is a lot of code words in political discourse – words that mean something other than, or something well beyond, what they seem to mean. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Idaho said no to the far right, but Kootenai County said yes, yes, yes
Broadly speaking, Idaho rejected the wingnut right in Tuesday’s major races. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Let unvaxxed Spokane firefighters live with the consequence of their choice
As the City Council looks at soaring overtime costs in the fire department, some council members want to rehire firefighters who chose to leave their extraordinarily well-paid jobs rather than get vaccinated against COVID-19. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Even under a 'settled' Roe, doctors risked their lives to provide access to abortion
In the 1990s, I lived in beautiful Bozeman, where a woman’s access to an abortion – a supposedly settled constitutional right – was nevertheless precarious. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: The case of the stolen ammunition began with online extremism
On a pleasant Saturday in early March, a group of seven people headed to a shooting range at Fishtrap Lake. → Read More
Shawn Vestal: Wood giving up her seat as a trustee to protect NIC from 'Biff' the board president
After 18 years, it was not the way Christie Wood imagined departing from the North Idaho College Board of Trustees. → Read More