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Monica Carrillo-Casas
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Plus, officials want to ban an immigration detention center in Spokane, but SeaTac has already done it. And Sandpoint considers taxing itself—and visitors.
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Jerry Cornfield
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Larry and Sharon Rosenkoetter
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"Consciousness is under siege," says author Michael Pollan. His new book, A World Appears, explores consciousness on both a personal and technological level.
Arts & Culture
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Pianist Yun Park plays music of Beethoven and chats about her upcoming all-Beethoven recital -
Movies 101On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss three movies that focus on characters and how they interact, both positively and negatively, with the communities to which they belong—or, in some cases, merely encounter. They begin with “Magellan,” a film about the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. And they follow up with “The Plague” and “Peter Hujar’s Day.” -
Movie Reviews“The Plague” is a study of middle-school angst that relies on its similarity to William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies,” Dan Webster says.
Events
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Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the 35th Annual Record Sale -
Spokane Public Radio was a media partner for BANFF Mountain Film Festival -
We are no longer accepting donations for the 2026 Record Sale
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Foreign tourism is the U.S. declined last year. Is it a "Trump Slump," or something else?
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced tough questions in front of a jury in the country's first trial about whether social media is addictive and harming young people.
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a trial over allegations that social media is addictive and harmful. NPR's Leila Fadel asks Darrell West of the Brookings Institution about the case.
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Reigning world champion Alysa Liu is Team USA's best shot for an Olympic medal in the figure skating final Thursday night.
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The billionaire tech mogul's testimony was part of a landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles. The jury's verdict in the case could shape how some 1,600 other pending cases from families and school districts are resolved. -
Eight skiers in the Castle Peak avalanche near Lake Tahoe are confirmed to be deceased.
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We're continuing to celebrate Black History Month by looking back at 2016, a year that brought big moments in the culture.
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President Trump's unpredictable rhetoric and actions when it comes to foreign policy amount to what some experts call a "madman strategy." Other analysts say Trump is actually a realist in this area.
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In modern-day Jordan, a 1500-year old mass grave sheds light on the lives of people affected by the Plague of Justinian.
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As China celebrates the lunar new year, the year of the horse has taken on an uncanny association with Draco Malfoy of the Harry Potter series.
