Thirteen years ago, Larry Shook put himself in the right place at the right time to put a human face on Spokane’s most revealing political story.
There’s no easy way to set the context for Judge Guy Meets Cherie Rodgers, the artful and deeply revealing story that my reporting colleague, Larry Shook, wrote in early September of 2001 for our national award-winning Camas Magazine project. I don’t know of another single story that better exposes Spokane’s political bedrock, and so clearly frames the long struggle to transform the city from a cozily corrupt company town into something less cynical and more democratic. (Certainly a fuller treatment of this tale, going back more than a century, is available in Bill Stimson’s political history of Spokane: Insiders and Naysayers.) You can also listen to a short interview with Larry and Cherie recorded on September 11, 2014. Continue reading Judge Guy Meets Cherie Rodgers→
How photographer Charley Gurche looks to capture the world around him.
Charley Gurche is tall, and lean, and travels widely with a professional camera and a banjo. Even more than his thick, and still dark hair, it’s his humor and sense of wonder that allows one to accept the ease with which he has gotten to be sixty years old without seeming to have aged past his teens. Continue reading A Natural Eye→
“It’s busy, it’s hot,” Beth Robinette says without hesitating when she’s asked about life on the ranch this July.
It is early Monday, and one of Spokane County’s youngest and most unusual entrepreneurs is drinking coffee beneath the shade of her large, black cowboy hat.
Beth testifying before the National Organic Standards Board in Seattle.
Fifteen Years Ago, Tim Krautkraemer was a sick kid who just wanted to play football. The story behind the movement and the lawsuit that now protects the health of thousands of people in Washington and Idaho.
By Tim Connor (originally published March 2, 2009)
(Editor’s note, 8.4.2014: Tim Krautkraemer continues to thrive in good health. After spending two years in the Teach for America program, as a Spanish teacher and football coach in Mississippi, Tim spent the past year teaching Spanish at a middle school in Bloomington, IN. This fall he’ll be at the University of Texas, beginning work on his master’s degree in Cultural Education.)
A few months before Spokane was introduced to the Center for Justice, eastern Washington was introduced to Tim Krautkraemer. Continue reading Every Breath He Takes→
Stories, dreams, and landscapes from the Inland Northwest
