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Credit Doug Nadvornick/SPR Voters in Spokane resoundingly voted yes for a $65 million levy Tuesday. About 64% voted in favor of the measure in an election where more than a third of registered voters in Spokane County participated. Fourteen school districts had levies on the special election ballot Tuesday and every measure appears to be passing. School levies in Spokane County districts often pass easily with 60% or greater approval. This time around, several districts are in the 50s. Mead, for example, is at about 52%. Superintendent Shawn Woodward isn’t ready to claim victory. “You kno...

Democracy works best when the people being governed are engaged in civic life. That certainly was the case in 2020, a year with a lot of elements that

Supporters on a car wave national and military flags Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, in Yangon, Myanmar. Hundreds of members of Myanmar's Parliament remained confined inside their government housing in the country's capital on Tuesday, a day after the military staged a coup and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. - AP YANGON, Dec 2 (dpa): Myanmar's military on Monday imposed an 8pm to 6am curfew across the country hours after seizing power in a coup and imposing a year-long state of emergency. The move came hours after soldiers arrested de facto l...

Legal eagles hit back against Sam Newman We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Legal eagles hit back against Sam Newman Normal text size Footy Show star Wayne Ludbey, suing the photographer for defamation. Sam Newman has launched legal proceedings against photographer Wayne Ludbey. Credit:Illustration: John Shakespeare Nicky Winmar had themselves sued the AFL bloviator after he attacked them during his You Cannot Be Serious podcast. Newman had claimed that when Winmar lifted his jersey and pointed at his torso in 1993 (captured in Ludbey’s p...

Trolley dolly life for Albanese with gift from Qantas We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Trolley dolly life for Albanese with gift from Qantas Normal text size Advertisement After spending the better part of the year attacking Qantas for cutting jobs during the pandemic while claiming JobKeeper subsidies, Anthony Albanese has more recently executed a commendable pivot. For those who haven’t noticed, Albanese has redirected the angle of his blowtorch away from the Alan Joyce-led airline and squarely onto the Morrison government, which he a...