Eliza Billingham
ReporterEliza Billingham is a full-time news reporter for SPR. She earned her master’s degree in journalism from Boston University, where she was selected as a fellow with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover an illegal drug addiction treatment center in Hanoi, Vietnam. She’s spent her professional career in Spokane, covering everything from rent crises and ranching techniques to City Council and sober bartenders. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, she’s lived in Vietnam, Austria and Jerusalem and will always be a slow runner and a theology nerd.
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The public health leader had been on paid administrative leave because of district concerns about her performance. -
Whitworth alumna Kristin Blyckert talks about helping Ukrainian authorities investigate Russian war crimes. Former Boise Mayor David Bieter shares his city's strategy for homelessness with Spokane business leaders. CDA naturopath Dr. Casey Carr says soil health is important to preserve human health. Apple detective Dave Benscoter starts a wiki website to help people discover whether they have heritage apple trees. -
Changes are afoot as classes start at Washington's most affordable public university. -
Chattanooga's first-in-the-nation PILOT program is incentivizing market rate developers to build below market rate apartments -
University of Washington's School of Dentistry's collaboration with Eastern Washington University expands its labs and instruction at UW-GU Health Partnership building -
The creative approach to making housing permanently affordable could help all of Washington state. -
Speakers included university chapter presidents, plus pastor and extremist Matt Shea. -
Sravasti Abbey builds a new Buddha Hall to welcome more people learning dharma. -
A grant funded reentry coordinator will facilitate services for driver's licenses and housing, but also Wellbriety and sweat lodge ceremonies. -
This week's Inland Journal features interviews with Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer, a debrief with a Seattle reporter about the state's responsibilities for caring for transgender inmates, a few minutes with Brian Heywood about the initiative process and a visit to Sravasti Abbey near Newport, which recently opened a new Buddha Hall.
