When SpokaneFAVS launched its new website a few weeks ago, we also moved to a new commenting system. No more spam. No more computer-generated riddles to make sure you’re a real person. No more having to register and sign in.
To use our new commenting system simply scroll to the bottom of the article you want to reply to and choose which of these three ways you’d like to post your comment:
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2) Sign in as a guest
3) Sign in using social media
And, with our new system you can upvote comments and share them on social media!
We look forward to you joining the thoughtful conversations happening on SpokaneFAVS!

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.