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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.

Our systems of faith, values and ethics also shape and influence how we choose our leaders and how they lead us. I have asked our leaders how their faith, values and ethics are used in their day to day lives, and am writing an ongoing series about leadership in Spokane.

[todaysdate] By Tracy Simmons Members of the Spokane City Council spent more than three hours Monday night listening to residents mostly air their opinions about abortion. The ordinance drawing the crowd, which passed 6-1, revised Spokane’s Municipal Code to include driveways in an ordinance about obstructing traffic. The ordinance states …

It’s looking to be another agonistic Spokane City Council meeting tonight as pro-lifers and pro-choicers gear up to talk about the protestors that frequent the local Planned Parenthood. In Spokane it’s illegal to block sidewalks and obstruct vehicular traffic, but it’s currently OK to block driveways. Anti-abortion demonstrators commonly block the driveway at …

The Spokane Alliance plans to pack the city council chambers at Monday's City Council meeting to ask Council President Ben Stuckart and members of the council to pass three Quality Job ordinances.

At first glance, Cleveland, Portland and Seattle may not have a lot in common. But look deeper.