Do you want to see 75-foot tall buildings around Mission Park and the area leading towards the Mission bridge? The Planning Commission is about to recommend that to the Spokane City Council on Monday, Jan 29, 2024. This is part of the “South Logan TOD” — a transit-oriented development zoning plan for the area now…

Yes, please come to the meeting tonight, either in person or via Zoom. Yes, there’s a men’s basketball game tonight, also at 6p. Yes, that means the free parking in the building at Hamilton and DeSmet is limited. But we have an interesting conversation planned about STA and Division Street. Tuesday night home games aren’t…

How many of us truly feel Halloween is the best holiday? Seriously, how many times do you get to dress up, pretend to be something/someone you’re not, and get candy for doing it? Halloween let me combine my love of puns, pop culture, mythology/fairy tales, and art. I got to decorate the bay window in…

Confession time: I don’t really know many of my neighbors yet I remember one next-door neighbor’s name because he sometimes plows our alley with his business’s small bulldozer. I remember my next-door-neighbor’s dog’s name because it’s a character I like from a movie. I remember a neighbor’s name around the corner because for a while,…

Sheryl Crow’s melancholy song “No one said it would be easy” sure fits the Neighborhood Council life. “You can’t seem to ever fold up a shirt/And I bring it up, and you think I’m a jerk/but I think we’re here to stay/And I can’t imagine it any other way” feels a little like the relationships…

Some thoughts from the Chair…. June 7, 2023 30-something years ago, I was a young adult who wanted a place to live in Spokane. I moved into a cute Craftsman house on Illinois Ave. As time passed, I got married and had a kid, and before I knew it, the three of us were walking…