Spokane Regional Health District doesn t report new cases the same way the state does If you ve been following the COVID-19 numbers in Spokane, nobody could blame you for being alarmed at what looks like an uptick in cases this last week. Since Friday, according to the Spokane Regional Health District, there have been more than 1,000 new cases, or 168 per day a huge increase in case rate from the week before. Using those numbers, the But those numbers are deceiving. At least 300 of those cases are not actually new cases at all but instead positive cases from weeks or months earlier, says health district spokesperson Kelli Hawkins. Some of them are positive test results from as far back as December.
); })() New owners Amanda and Jeff LaShaw took over this small coffee roastery in Kendall Yards at the start of the year, and while much of Tom Sawyer s offerings haven t changed, the couple did make one exceedingly popular addition: coffee flights. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Tom Sawyer s cafe seating is full, and nearly every table is sampling its spring seasonal coffee flight. Served on a wooden board, each flight of four 10-ounce servings can be customized to include any beverage on its menu. The featured spring flight, however, offers a wide sampling of the cafe s current offerings, and was crafted to be on the lighter side with two lattes and two non-coffee drinks.
Young Kwak photo Kendall Yards is praised for being a walkable neighborhood, but its townhomes and cottages are illegal to build in much of Spokane. B
en Stuckart spent eight years as president of the Spokane City Council, often weathering the outrage and criticism slung by a frustrated public. But now that he s part of that frustrated public, he s the one slinging criticism at the council. I think they re failing, says Stuckart. They re failing in their job to provide urgent public policy. Today, as director of the Spokane Low Income Housing Consortium, he s horrified by what s happening to Spokane s housing market.
Young Kwak photo FROM LEFT: Spokane Resource Center Director Jen Morris, Spokane Workforce Council Chief Executive Officer Mark Mattke and Chief Operating Officer Dawn Karber at the Spokane Resource Center. T
o be at the margins to be homeless or nearly homeless is to constantly be navigating mazes of social services agencies, forests of phone trees and labyrinths of bureaucracy to get the help you need. But at the Spokane Resource Center, the idea was that all anyone had to do was walk through the door, and they d have a personal guide to different services, whether that s energy assistance, resume help, or a closet full of professional clothes they could borrow for a job interview.