Students from France are the latest to get a look at Spokane.

A sign of 10 years of progress: when the UW-GU health partnership began, UW medical students studied in a building that had once been a Native American museum. Now they share a state-of-the-art facility with dental and human physiology students. Also, foreign exchange programs are alive and well in Spokane. We meet two recent French visitors.

Subcommittees on the Safe and Healthy Task Force are scheduled to deliver their recommendations next month. They could include another ballot measure that authorizes funding for a new jail.

The Washington legislature has given Spokane's incinerator some runway before it has to pay the full price of buying carbon credits to satisfy the Climate Commitment Act. But it's not a free ride. The city has work to do to clean the plant's emissions and lower the penalty it pays the state.

Plus, Spokane considers "right to cooling" for renters and pauses development of can-centric businesses in swathes of the city. Increased parking rates in Spokane might not be just because of a new tax. ID brings in more revenue than expected, but still less than legislators targeted. Private and public funders put millions of dollars towards a new library in Republic, WA.

Spokane now deploys eight co-response teams, pairing mental health experts with officers from the fire department, police department, and sheriff’s office. These teams offer certain advantages for the public and the vulnerable populations they serve, but they're a small part of a system peppered with gaps.

Now the former Republican U.S. representative leads an organization that promotes taxing carbon as a way to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.

We talk with NPR's media correspondent on the eve of his visit to Spokane. Eliza Billingham hears what Spokane police officers think about working with mental health professionals in the field. A former South Carolina congressman urges his fellow Republicans to use their taxing powers to combat climate change.

Kent Craford has targeted older, less busy airports such as Felts and Boeing Fields for his Northwest commuter routes.