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The Spokane City Council will host a community educational forum on Fair Chance Hiring March 8 at 6 p.m.in the City Council Chambers.

The Spokane City Council announced this week that it has has introduced a resolution calling for Spokane to be included in the International Charter for Compassionate Communities.

An email interview about leadership with Spokane City Council President Ben Stuckart.

Lori has had to worked not just hard, but smarter, to be where she is. She has successfully began and worked on many projects and brought them to fruition, such as the community gardens project. This is one reason many people who have voted for and endorsed Lori, choose to do so – they've seen her quiet, decisive work in action.

Biel strikes me a very sincere person who also has that rare quality seen these days in politics: a reasonable conservative and a non-partisan candidate.

John Waite is one of the few candidates in memory to make mental health part of his platform. It is courageous because many people are afraid of mental health issues because they don't take the time to understand what mental illness is or how it affects our community. Ignorance of mental health and how it works has had devastating results all over the country and certainly in Spokane.

The transformation shows the capacity for creativity, innovation and imagination in Spokane as a city and by individuals in the city. It shows how leaders collaborate together to make something new out of the old via a process of transformation, starting with a dream and then making that dream a reality.