Regional Elections 2021

Voters in cities around Spokane have re-elected several mayors and city council members. But there are places where new elected officials will play…

Kata Dean and Riley Smith are running for an open seat on the Spokane school board.Dean is a life coach who has also worked with teenagers, some with drug…

Melissa Bedford and Daryl Geffken are running for an open seat on the Spokane school board.Bedford is an assistant professor of education at Eastern…

The relatively obscure issue of captive insurance is on the election ballot now in Washington voters’ hands. Advisory Vote 38 asks whether a new tax on…

On Election Day Washington voters will have the chance to share their opinions about a controversial new state capital gains tax (Advisory Vote 37).The…

On Washington ballots this month is an advisory question about a tax on phone lines and other telecommunications service. The money collected from that…

Spokane is in a housing crisis. Apartment vacancy rates are historically low, and many are priced out of home ownership.Here’s how candidates for Spokane…

Three Spokane municipal court judges are up for re-election this year. There’s one contested race for the seat now held by Matthew Antush, but the other…

The two candidates running for a Spokane Municipal Court judicial seat are: Matthew Antush, the current judge, and Gloria Ochoa-Bruck, who has been a…

Three City Council candidates and a school board candidate promised to take climate change seriously, and look for ways to promote local environmental…