There have been a handful of October surprises ahead of this year’s Spokane City Council races, those last-minute events that may or may not sway voters in the waning days before the election.
As thousands took to the streets for the third day in a row in Tanzania’s biggest cities and towns, protesting an election in which the country’s president barred her two main opponents from running against her, human rights groups warned of growing violence against demonstrators.
In Spokane, homelessness has been on local streets and minds for years, and either Spokane City Council incumbent Zack Zappone or newcomer Christopher Savage will be elected to help address the problem.
Voters who have not submitted their ballots yet should stop submitting them through the mail due to unprecedented concerns ballots will not be postmarked in time for the election, according to recommendations from the Washington secretary of state .
Sandpoint voters will decide Nov. 4 whether to approve a $130 million bond to replace the city’s aging wastewater treatment facility. The bond would be paid through utility rates, not property taxes.
Three residents sued Spokane City Council candidate Alejandro Barrientos on Monday, questioning whether he resided in the district he is running to represent .
Alejandro Barrientos’ qualification to legally run for Spokane City Council is being scrutinized over questions about whether he met the residency requirement for candidates.
An attack ad against Spokane City Councilman Jonathan Bingle, who is running for re-election against reproductive rights organizer Sarah Dixit, was allegedly produced by an independent political committee funded by two unions that have endorsed Bingle.
The annual fire and police levies are once again on the ballot in the small southern Spokane County towns of Rockford and Spangle. The towns typically run one-year levies each year to pay for services or for contracts to provide needed emergency services that they can’t afford without the taxes.
A new playground, a splash pad, a gazebo, a turf field, sport courts, a parking lot, even a dog park could be coming to the “rapidly developing” Latah/Hangman Neighborhood in southwestern Spokane.
Among the 200-plus projects that would be addressed in Spokane Public Schools’ $200 million bond and city parks’ $240 million levy is the replacement of the city’s second oldest public school still in use.
Though it’s officially named “North Central High School,” some school officials dubbed the patchwork school “the SeaTac project that’s never-ending,” or “A Tale of Two Cities,” for the piecemeal updates made over the years.
