Erin Sellers
@merrywanderer.bsky.social
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Journalist at @rangemedia.co
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Washington politics
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Queer artist 🦋😈💕
Journalist at @rangemedia.co
Lover of Spokane
Washington politics
Wannabe goth 🦇🩸⚔️
Slide into my DMs with those news tips 👀
Secure comms on Signal: 509-850-0488
Agree about Ocheltree, is just unfortunate there’s no recording to watch, especially when they had the meeting in a room that was equipped for it and they typically do record and stream budget meetings so the public can see.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Agree about Ocheltree, is just unfortunate there’s no recording to watch, especially when they had the meeting in a room that was equipped for it and they typically do record and stream budget meetings so the public can see.
Zappone did try to go into executive session, but that can only be used to discuss employee performance. Since cut discussions are about budgetary layoffs and not firing employees for cause, they have to do it in the open.
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Zappone did try to go into executive session, but that can only be used to discuss employee performance. Since cut discussions are about budgetary layoffs and not firing employees for cause, they have to do it in the open.
Actually, no. Liberal supermajority…
November 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Actually, no. Liberal supermajority…
Also, regardless of where you stand on staff cuts, kicking staff out of a public meeting that won’t be recorded seems dicey at best, illegal at worst.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Also, regardless of where you stand on staff cuts, kicking staff out of a public meeting that won’t be recorded seems dicey at best, illegal at worst.
We might disagree on this, but if we’re going to expect council members to govern the second largest city in WA as part time council members, it makes sense for them to have a staff. They made cuts in 2022 and 2024. Seems shortsighted to rely on always having a politically aligned mayor + staff.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
We might disagree on this, but if we’re going to expect council members to govern the second largest city in WA as part time council members, it makes sense for them to have a staff. They made cuts in 2022 and 2024. Seems shortsighted to rely on always having a politically aligned mayor + staff.
That’s fair, I’m sorry yall had to crawl to facebook!
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
That’s fair, I’m sorry yall had to crawl to facebook!
Info from Spokane Public Libraries! Just another example of hos drastically city and county services differ by regional politics… www.spokanelibrary.org/transgender-...
Transgender Awareness Week and Transgender Day of Remembrance 2025 - Spokane Public Library
“Transgender Awareness Week,” GLAAD states on their website, “is a week when transgender people and their allies take action…by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.”
www.spokanelibrary.org
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Info from Spokane Public Libraries! Just another example of hos drastically city and county services differ by regional politics… www.spokanelibrary.org/transgender-...
Important to note @spokanelibrary.bsky.social is different than @spokanecolibrary.bsky.social. Spokane Public Libraries are city funded/controlled while Spokane County is county managed. Pretty sure Spokane Public Libraries are hosting a TDOR event!
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Important to note @spokanelibrary.bsky.social is different than @spokanecolibrary.bsky.social. Spokane Public Libraries are city funded/controlled while Spokane County is county managed. Pretty sure Spokane Public Libraries are hosting a TDOR event!
Why is this a picture of Spokane City Council if the piece is about the County Commission?
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Why is this a picture of Spokane City Council if the piece is about the County Commission?
I wrote about my ridealong with the fire co-response team a while ago! Never got around writing about the police team because i got stuck in a doomloop of breaking news right after my ridealong but i keep thinking about circling back.
‘Don’t leave me here, I need help!’
RANGE takes a ridealong with one of the units addressing Spokane’s opioid crisis on the ground.
rangemedia.co
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I wrote about my ridealong with the fire co-response team a while ago! Never got around writing about the police team because i got stuck in a doomloop of breaking news right after my ridealong but i keep thinking about circling back.
One more thing, sorry: I do have questions about how they decide which unit to dispatch (fire vs. police co-response) and I think that that is an arena where advocacy could have great impact. That, and expanding hours so that there is always a co-response unit on call
November 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One more thing, sorry: I do have questions about how they decide which unit to dispatch (fire vs. police co-response) and I think that that is an arena where advocacy could have great impact. That, and expanding hours so that there is always a co-response unit on call
2/2 Advocating against free money to ensure mental health professionals *also* respond to those calls seems short sighted and ineffective. I spent the day with this coresponse team last summer. Not a single person they interacted with picked up charges and having both there defused risky situations
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
2/2 Advocating against free money to ensure mental health professionals *also* respond to those calls seems short sighted and ineffective. I spent the day with this coresponse team last summer. Not a single person they interacted with picked up charges and having both there defused risky situations
1/2 I don’t disagree with you that there are so many situation where having a police officer there only worsens the situation. But to me it seems police responding to mental health crisis is already normalized and expected.
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
1/2 I don’t disagree with you that there are so many situation where having a police officer there only worsens the situation. But to me it seems police responding to mental health crisis is already normalized and expected.
That is a different unit, and they primarily respond to overdoses (or at least when I went on a ridealong with them, all but one of the calls were overdoses.
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
That is a different unit, and they primarily respond to overdoses (or at least when I went on a ridealong with them, all but one of the calls were overdoses.