RANGE

Jan 31 2025 85 ep. 60 mins 20
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News, analysis, and conversations for people who love the Inland Northwest and want to make it better. Thinking about how to imagine and build a significantly better world than the one we live in. Equal parts mad & funny. www.rangemedia.co

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Where RANGE stands, know your immigration rights and a little bit of hopecore.

Jan 31 2025 61 mins  
On this week’s episode of the pod, Luke, Erin and Aaron Hedge sat down with Sam Smith of Manzanita House to do a civics-for-adults training on your immigration rights and how to exercise them. Then, we played a pre-made package by Erin on a group of local teens who traveled to Olympia to lobby the state legislature for policies to shield transgender students, update reproductive

Faith in Flux: Deconstruction, TikTok & Community

Jan 24 2025 51 mins  
Val, Luke and Aaron Hedge talked about deconstructing from Christianity, TikTok (and the potential ban) and how those two wildly different things relate — and the lessons on community that these reflections can give us. 03:49 Brief overview of the latest TikTok news07:16 Defining Deconstruction in Christianity13:26 Personal Stories of Faith and Doubt25:20 Navi

Behind the scenes of a story that didn't get written

Jan 17 2025 51 mins  
This week on Free RANGE, Luke and both Erin/Aarons discussed an unexpected nationalist rabbit hole Hedge dove down, the contours of a new bike box program for people biking to City Hall (Spoiler alert, it's not all it's cracked up to be) and a Sellers deep-dive into numbers for the city's new homeless scatter sites, focusing on one that's opened beds for 30 medically fragile unhous

Deescalation and Spokane's Police force

Jan 10 2025 44 mins  
Luke was out doing ~boss-coded things~ so co-host Erin interviewed fellow RANGE reporter Aaron Hedge on his newest big story: “A burning question for police: Does ‘deescalation’ mean ‘up to lethal force’?If you’re not a big fan of reading 4k word stories, but you want to know about how Spokane’s police force — the third deadliest per capita in the nation — th

RANGE's NEWS Year Resolutions

Jan 03 2025 53 mins  
The whole gang discusses our news year resolutions, including but not limited to: striving for better work-life balance, engaging more deeply with community, and doing more labor, rural and culture reporting. 00:00 Intro01:03 Holiday Break Recap04:33 Personal and Team Goals for the Year06:39 Labor Reporting and Community Engagement21:05 Connecting community desires with coverage27:

The Right To Choose (To Unionize)

Dec 20 2024 53 mins  
Luke was out sick, so Audience Editor Valerie Osier joined Erin to talk about RANGE’s newest labor story: a timely expose on union-busting at the local Planned Parenthood affiliate. If you’re not a big fan of reading 4,000 word stories, but you want to know about the CEO’s crazy-high salary, the high cost of union-busting ($425 an hour) and the employees caught in the crossfi

2024 RANGE Wrapped

Dec 13 2024 54 mins  
Luke and Erin did a 2024 Wrapped, running through the interesting (and often depressing) coverage RANGE did in the last year. You can find all of our coverage here! And, shameless plug, we just launched a merch line, which you should shop! Help us get sustainable, show your commitment to civic engagement, and look hot doing it.Do you have questions about local government?

City Council rules, Library boards and more

Dec 06 2024 50 mins  
Luke, Erin and guest Aaron Hedge — the environmentalism and County reporter at RANGE Media — chatted Spokane City Council rule changes (and the consequences for conservatives), the continued saga of Liberty Lake City Council’s growing control over their library and a grab-bag of other local news items! If you listened to our episode and want to learn more, here are the storie

Free RANGE 11.28 — Friends, rent protections, community-connected journalism and other reasons to be thankful

Nov 28 2024 54 mins  
Welcome to our very special Thanksgiving episode of Free RANGE, where Luke and Erin convened a panel of local notables Joni Harris, Sara Dixit and Kai Teo — a cook, an organizer and a data journalist, respectively, to discuss the political disconnection felt right now by working people in Spokane and one idea the nerds at RANGE have had to try to help struggling renters feel more

FreeRANGE: COPS, Krauter and CIVICS

Nov 22 2024 52 mins  
Luke, Erin and guest Aaron Hedge — the environmentalism and County reporter at RANGE Media — talked about the city’s will-they-won’t-they relationship with the C.O.P.S. contract, CEO Larry Krauter’s departure from the Spokane Airport and a short Civics round-up of all the biggest pieces of news that came out of local municipal meetings this week. If you listened to our ep