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This week's Inland Journal features a conversation with people on the front lines of preserving the Salish languages of the Inland Northwest about a new national plan for Indigenous language revitalization, Spokane City Council’s Michael Cathcart talks about his new seat on the Spokane Transit board, and Whitworth students and faculty that attended COP 29 share some of the highlights.
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Spokane Colleges Chancellor Kevin Brockbank talks about a rebrand for the city's community college system and author Leyna Krow tells us about her new volume of short stories.
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We look ahead at the 2025 session of the Washington legislature. How to be effective as a member of the minority party. What is a legislative whip? What does the city of Spokane want from Olympia. Attorney General-elect Nick Brown talks about preparing for his new job.
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We talk with Spokane apple detective/enthusiast Dave Benscoter about his years-long search for heritage apples, especially those that helped feed early Northwest pioneers.
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An exit interview with retiring Spokane state Senator Andy Billig and a look at how a Washington state agency is working to revamp and revitalize drivers' education.
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Joe Ader from Family Promise of Spokane talks about the regional approach to homelessness; financial pressures on north Idaho school districts and a new book about the history of the Little Spokane River Basin.
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Spokane County's sheriff says the investment in his agency's Real Time Crime Center is paying off; Idaho has reached a goal in training nurses to work with sexual assault victims.
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A Spokane nursing professor seeks to measure babies' pain; a Tacoma oncologist talks about hard-to-get cancer drugs; and a comedian comes to Spokane to encourage us to talk about our political differences
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Jazz clarinet and saxophone player Ken Peplowski plays Spokane with some of the locals; eastern Washington musician Faran Sohappy closes in on a Native American Music Award; a Spokane native creates a visual legacy of Washington's outgoing governor
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The future of Columbia River governance discussed in Spokane; an eastern Washington PFAS researcher talks about problems caused by the chemicals; and a longtime Spokane legislator looks back at his career.
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We talk about one of the leading causes of death in U.S. hospitals: sepsis; a West Valley capital school levy is on its way to victory; we get more acquainted with the Coeur d'Alene airport; and we take a final look back at Expo ’74 and the lessons learned.
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Eastern Washington University President Shari McMahan talks about rebranding Eastern as the "Region's Polytechnic.” A Whitworth professor and two students head soon to Azerbaijan for the U.N. climate conference. We learn about WSU research into cooling fruit to avoid sunburn. Producer Katie McCutcheon tells the story about the Spokane Tribe's ancestral ties to the Spokane River in part 6 of her "Echoes of Expo" series.