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SPR's Doug Nadvornick reports. A progressive Washington group is touting a new poll of people’s attitudes about criminal justice in Spokane. Fuse Washington’s survey asked residents whether they would support a two-tenths-of-a-cent sales tax increase to fund construction of a new Spokane County jail. The poll says only 40% of the 500 respondents would support paying more sales tax for a 1,200 bed jail. Conversely, 58% would rather that money go toward measures that reduce the jail’s population, says Jim Dawson, Fuse Washington’s program director in Spokane. “That’s where voters a...

What does that mean for small-scale, sustainable fashion? Next City spoke to the founders of three sustainable brands in Philadelphia about their mission, their community, and their reasons for being in the city — as well as what the COVID-19 pandemic has changed or clarified for them this past year. (Photo courtesy Brit Reed) When 29-year-old Brit Reed is asked about Tesoro’s origins, she starts abroad. “My first year at FIT [Fashion Institute of Technology], I studied in Florence, Italy, and I happened to live by the leather market there,” she recalls. She didn’t have much interes...