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Grant Fredericks

This Is Our Country Too

This Is Our Country Too

A Fourth of July Reflection from WA‑5 On this day, across hills and valleys, city blocks and gravel roads, the sky above Eastern Washington fills with the sound of memory. Flags wave in Republic and Rosalia, in Pullman and Pomeroy. In Spokane’s Riverfront Park, families gather by the

This Land Is Us: A Rural County Fought Back Against Washington, D.C. and Won

This Land Is Us: A Rural County Fought Back Against Washington, D.C. and Won

Where Neighbors Still Show Up At the Republic Library on a weekday morning, someone is always stopping by. A teacher drops off flyers for the summer reading program. A teenager scrolls through job listings on the public Wi-Fi. Children gather around bins of Legos and puzzles while quiet conversation drifts

Birthright Citizenship Makes Washington Strong

Birthright Citizenship Makes Washington Strong

One Birth, Two Futures In a quiet delivery room in Spokane, a baby enters the world. Same nurses, same hospital, same breath drawn into life, as all other babies born here. But under a new federal order, that baby’s right to be American now depends not on where they

The Ground We Tend Together

The Ground We Tend Together

On a soft June morning in Spokane’s Peaceful Valley, the garden is already awake. Dew glints on strawberry leaves. A robin skips between rows of kale. And in a corner of the community plot, not far from the river, two children lift the lid of a cedar box. Steam

The Quiet Liquidation: What the Land-Sale Bill Reveals About America’s Vanishing Stewardship

The Quiet Liquidation: What the Land-Sale Bill Reveals About America’s Vanishing Stewardship

A Premonition in the Pines At the northeastern edge of Washington State lies the Salmo-Priest Wilderness, untouched and elemental. It is one of the last places where the original ecology of the Inland Northwest still breathes: ancient cedars, grizzly bears, the rare echo of woodland caribou. For tribal communities, it

The Quiet Bill That Could Unravel Campaign Finance Law

The Quiet Bill That Could Unravel Campaign Finance Law

In the pantheon of modern political tools, few are more consequential, and less understood, than the nonprofit. These tax-exempt entities, ostensibly created to serve the public good, have long walked the fine line between civic engagement and political influence. With the introduction of the partisan bill H.R. 2501, that

What the River Remembers

What the River Remembers

The Fight for the Lower Snake, and the Future of the Land It Fed The Lower Snake does not rage. It does not roar. But it endures. Along its quiet bends near Lower Granite Dam, where slackwater curls around concrete and turbines hum without notice, the river moves with the