With the current COVID-19 pandemic, learning has been difficult for many teachers and students. Learning in an online environment has brought a lot of students […]
Public Camping: Banned
On October 27th, just eight days before Election Day, Spokane City Council unanimously passed the “Safe and Accessible Spaces” ordinance, giving Spokane Police officers discretion to offer services or citations to suspects found camping on or obstructing public property. During an interview, Spokane Chief of Police Kevin Hall discussed how the new ordinance changes officers’ standard procedures and, primarily, their discretion to issue disciplinary measures to violators. “With the previous ordinance, we had zero treatment engagements,”said Hall. “Since this ordinance came into effect…It’s been 10 days, we’ve had 34 successful engagements. I think that’s because they realize the expectations have changed.” While community members debate the policy’s effectiveness, Hall argues that enforcement must be measured against its human impact. “Most…
Cultivating Plant Community
Hands-on learning meets beauty at Spokane Community College’s plant shop:…
A Tribute to the Native Collective
The Spokane Tribe community has been struggling to cope with…
From Degree to Studio
Jenn Marquis’s “kodak,” a term photographers use to describe their…
Food stamp cuts affect student body
Washington state is going to have the eleventh largest cuts…
If they only had a kidney:
SFCC has students that are handling school, life and a dialysis…
Student response to sexual harassment allegations
It feels like an earthquake. Years of silence and then…
COVID-19 vaccine distributed in WA
Governor Jay Inslee and the Washington State Department of Health declared in a press conference that residents are in Phase 1A and Phase 1 Tier […]
Campus life during ongoing pandemic
COVID-19 has affected so many lives. However, that isn’t the only thing that changed. Life expectations have changed as well. Spokane Fall Community College campus […]
What happened to SFCC’s community garden?
What started off as a project to bring the community together now lays in ruin. Four years ago, The Communicator covered the creation of Spokane […]