Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub opens Spokane location
Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub, an Everett, Washington-based restaurant chain, has opened its first restaurant east of the Cascades on Monroe Avenue in Spokane. The new location in the former Milford’s Fish House opened for business at 11 a.m. Monday, according to a company news release.
Midnite: A spent uranium mine
In the midst of this gorgeous natural paradise we call the Inland Northwest is a ticking time bomb — a radioactive Superfund site that has possibly poisoned hundreds of local residents and won’t be cleared of danger — to the federal government’s standards, at least — for another half-decade.
Barr doesn’t accept key inspector general finding about FBI’s Russia investigation
Attorney General William Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report – that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.
Chicago mayor fires city’s top cop over ‘ethical lapses’
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired the city’s retiring police superintendent Monday, citing “ethical lapses” that included telling lies about a recent incident in which Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel of his car after having drinks.
State puts portion of North Spokane freeway on hold in response to I-976State puts portion of North Spokane freeway on hold in response to I-976
More than $90 million in Spokane-area transportation funding has been delayed due to last month’s passage of Initiative 976 by Washington state voters. Topping the list is work on the North Spokane Corridor, also known as the north-south freeway, according to a list released by the Washington state Department of Transportation. Between $45 million and $50 million in work to construct the freeway between Sprague Avenue and the Spokane River has been deferred.
Then and Now: NorthTown Mall
NorthTown started as a shopping center surrounding a new 30,000-square-foot supermarket built by Idaho grocery magnate Joe Albertson at the corner of Division Street and Wellesley Avenue. The store was twice as big as Albertson’s “home” store in Boise and opened in 1951. The massive parking lot had a strip of smaller stores which included Bell Furniture, a W.T. Grant dime store and other clothing or drug stores.
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Here’s how to combat the evil being done in our names
Here in the season of festivity and light, it’s probably natural that we don’t think much about how it feels to be a child in a chain link cage, a woman sleeping on concrete, a man denied soap, toothpaste and medicine. In the season of home for the holidays, who wants to be reminded of those who have no home to go to? Of those who are mistreated as a matter of policy by our government? And thus, by us. ... The evil – and the word is apropos – being done in our name at the border depends for its success on our willingness to watch in compliant silence as fellow human beings are “otherized” and “monsterized,” stripped of their individuality, remade in the image of American fears.
Hanford boosts contaminated groundwater cleanup to protect the Columbia River
The Hanford nuclear reservation is expanding its capacity to clean chemical and radioactive contamination from the groundwater. The 580-square-mile nuclear reservation sits over about 65 square miles of groundwater contaminated by past practices at the site, such as dumping contaminated liquids into the soil.
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