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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Gonzaga University president Katia Passerini had a lot to say about how 'profoundly AI is reshaping higher education.' ... One thing that Passerini didn’t write in her column: that she used AI to help write it for her." God, I love @rangemedia.co.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 30/09/2026
In response to this discovery, our team has worked together to draft our own AI policy that governs our usage, as well as guest submissions. Read now:
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RANGE Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy
From transcriptions to data extraction, here's how we use AI in our work and where we draw the line.
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Mr. Bible Lore Podcast @haydentank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a great series from the RANGE crew and especially @danieltwalters.bsky.social -- if you've wanted a deep dive into how AI has impacted local journalism and politics, this one's for you!
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Valerie Osier @valerieosier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The number of banger lines in this story is extensive
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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Even at a badass publication like RANGE, where journalists do cool and rebellious things like get tattoos and use contractions, we have ethical codes too: and one of them is, don’t donate to a political party we’re covering" Lots of humor in this piece. I laughed out loud.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 27/08/2026
We reported directly outside of the 2026 Spokane GOP convention because we didn’t want to pay $100 to the local Republican Party. Here's how Daniel Walters got the scoop anyways, with the help of party insiders, a long wildlife photography lens and one crucial venue weakness: windows.
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We reported directly outside of the 2026 Spokane GOP convention because we didn’t want to pay $100
Never underestimate the stubborn frugality of a journalist
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resonanteye, anji @resonanteye.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
arborvitae uggggh
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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"[WSU] refers to them as “plant torches.” “It’s like a can of gasoline,” De Ruyter said. “They put out a shit ton of embers.” Worse, a lot of people like to grow their arborvitae right smack up against the side of their houses, almost ensuring that a plant fire becomes a house fire. "
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Did Spokane's watering restrictions make the wildfires worse? Nah. But there really ARE landscaping choices that can make your house much more vulnerable to an out-of-control blaze. www.rangemedia.co/the-landscap...
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The landscaping that burns down neighborhoods
Your water-restricted lawn is fine, but some popular plants are fire bombs waiting to happen.
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I wrote about the (very, very silly) argument that the arrest for arson disproves the idea that the fires highlight the dangers of climate change. www.rangemedia.co/if-the-old-t...
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If the Old Trails Fire was arson, climate change was its accomplice
Because of arson arrest, online pundits are mocking former Gov. Inslee's argument that fires show danger of climate change.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 23/07/2026
An audit of the auditor's race, think the important nuts and bolts beyond all the flashy, spicy stuff that @danieltwalters.bsky.social 's has been covering:
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Auditing the Auditor Race
We pose questions about the Auditor’s race and then answer them ourselves
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 22/07/2026
Did you know we have one-stop shop on our website for all things Spokane elections? Well, we do! Click the link below for our comprehensive election coverage + voting resources:
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Spokane Election 2026 – RANGE Media
Welcome to RANGE’s one-stop shop for Washington election stuff. Here you’ll find resources for voting, links to voters guides and our coverage on it all. We’ll be updating this page with more of our c...
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 21/07/2026
Spokane County Auditor candidate Michael Cathcart says he rejected a proposal last year from Dale Whitaker to hire him if he became auditor. Cathcart is now facing a deluge of attacks from fellow Republicans. More on the battle behind the scenes from Daniel Walters:
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Cathcart says opponent offered to stay out of auditor race for job promise
“[Whitaker] offered that he would not run against me if I were to hire him,” Cathcart said.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL — CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
VERSUS — JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
ALEX STAMOS ET AL — MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D. MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos, Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition [Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
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Lauren @lpangborn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
BIKE THE BRIDGE TOMORROW
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 24/06/2026
This is a story about hope. This is a story of three daring escapes. It’s May 2026. Jeremy Root, Seamus Galligan and Joseph Sampson are alive. And none of them are homeless:
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Stabbed. Frostbitten. Overdosed. Sheltered. Sober. Saved.
In 2023, I interviewed three unhoused men at the Spokane library. Over the next three years, all of them escaped homelessness
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What a reporter does when his reporting leads him smack dab into a conflict-of-interest:
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
It was 2025! A different time!
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Okay, but in Spokane, the context...
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 19/05/2026
For nearly eight hours on Monday, Judge Rebecca Pennell, lawyers from the federal government and lawyers representing Jac Archer, Justice Forral and Bajun Mavalwalla II questioned a pool of more than 100 prospective jurors about their beliefs and potential bias.
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Trial of the Spokane 3, Day 1: ‘Please do not bring in politics. Please do not bring in politics.’
Jury selection for the Spokane 3 Trial will bleed over into day two as lawyers probe the jury pool for bias, and jurors share fun facts, favorite movies and interesting takes.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 16/05/2026
Consider, for a moment, one of the most wholesome of all clickbait tropes: the unlikely animal friendship. Bingle (a Republican) and Ocheltree (a Democrat) are the Unlikely Animal Friends of the local political scene. And they're both running for the state legislature.
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Unlikely Political Animal Friends
Spokane Republican and his former city council aide, a Democrat, are running for dual seats in the sixth district
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Did a single non-binding City Council resolution do $10 million worth of unconstitutional psychic damage to former mayor Nadine Woodward? I investigate for @rangemedia.co www.rangemedia.co/nadine-and-t...
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Nadine and the supremes
Does ex-Mayor Woodward have a chance to win $10 million from the city she led?
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Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Content farms using AI and/or cheap overseas labor to mass request bod camera footage for their clickbait YouTube channele are ruining the free public requests process. Sometimes they even imply this is journalism. Curses upon their households
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 28/04/2026
"As someone born and raised in Spokane, there has got to be an untapped gold mine for Spokane bodycam videos,” one commenter wrote on a video. But now, the county is charging for access to that footage, after online accounts started mining cop footage for content. New by @danieltwalters.bsky.social
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The sophisticated YouTube operations that seek to make your most embarrassing arrest go viral
The content creators who caused Spokane County to start charging for bodycam footage — and the people hurt because of it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/04/2026
raising kids is like watching the “reaping/sowing” tweet happen five times a day
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Kristofer Goldsmith @krisgoldsmith85.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The SPLC was just indicted by the Trump DOJ for its work related to researching extremist organizations. For today’s episode of On Offense, I interviewed @michaelehayden.bsky.social, who was one of the SPLC’s top researchers about his new book, Strange People on the Hill. 1/2
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Aaron Hedge @aaronhedge.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ooh, I’m in this story! www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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Browne's Addition residents raise alarm at new neighbor: a pastor in Trump's orbit
The Browne’s Addition Neighborhood council meeting had nearly come to a close when someone asked to talk about what everyone wanted to talk about: the new church.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 11/04/2026
Failure to Thrive: After brutal legal blow leaves Thrive International with millions in debt, refugee nonprofit makes last-ditch move to save organization and homes.
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How Spokane's immigrant housing non-profit hit financial ruin — and may be okay anyway.
After brutal legal blow leaves Thrive International with millions in debt, refugee nonprofit makes last-ditch move to save organization and homes.
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yazikus @yazikus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"The contract works like this: Commit a felony anywhere in Spokane County, and the county will pay for your stay in jail. But commit a misdemeanor inside the Spokane city limits — like driving drunk or stealing property worth less than $750 — and the city’s going to be the one footing the bill. "
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 10/04/2026
Spokane's bills for jailing inmates in Spokane County’s facilities spiked from $4.2 million in 2021 to a projected total of over $9 million in 2025. But no one at the city could answer the question: "Why?" Reporter Daniel Walters investigates why the city's jail bill keeps growing:
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Spokane and the Mystery of the Rising Jail Costs: A RANGE casefile
Spokane jail’s bill keeps growing and growing and growing — RANGE investigates why
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Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
For all that WA state officials like to talk about protecting immigrants, they’re leaving huge loopholes for federal agents to access data. In som cases, there are devastating consequences.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 23/03/2026
CIVICS: Spokane City Council could approve $120,000 for Mujeres in Action to train cops on cultural competency and increase language access on DV and sexual assault calls. Plus, PFAS clean-up updates, a jail cost audit and $$ for county bodycam footage:
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$120,000 for Mujeres in Action to train cops
CIVICS: Plus, PFAS clean-up updates, a jail cost audit and $$ for county bodycam footage.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 18/03/2026
Yesterday, we republished a piece from Murrow fellow Monica Carrillo-Casas on the devastating impacts of Long COVID in Latino workers. You can read the piece in both English and Spanish.
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
RIP John Stockton and Adam Morrison. Get well soon, Mark!
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Erin Sellers @merrywanderer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I have never giggled so much when reading a RANGE story. @danieltwalters.bsky.social’s newest takes a long hard look at the fake basketball news flooding Facebook
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
If you are wondering why Range stories style "Range" as RANGE, it's because, if you're reading the article out loud you're supposed to yell it.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 11/03/2026
Have you heard of the Bowdish Bump? Daniel Walters' first story for RANGE, and first story of a new series we're calling Accident By Design, focuses on the infamous intersection in Spokane Valley that was plagued by two problems: a sudden incline and a poorly placed stop sign:
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Grieving mom wishes Spokane Valley fixed city’s worst intersection before it killed her son
Why did it take so long to fix the deadly intersection on Bowdish and 16th?
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danieltwalters.bsky.social @danieltwalters.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Created this Bluesky account to make getting canceled more efficient when the time comes.
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