Past As Prologue: Rural Places Are Queer Places And The History Of WSU’s LGBTQ Awareness

By NWPB News
WSU Student newspaper The Daily Evergreen article on homosexuality.
What the struggle over recognition for WSU's Gay Awareness student group shows is some of the similarities between rural and urban LGBTQ rights. Rural areas — especially college towns like Pullman or Moscow — are also queer places. People in cities who were against gay rights used the same tactic as those in Pullman—the public-referendum—to deny housing or employment Read More

Spokane Area’s Largest Districts To Begin Year With Remote Classes; Palouse Region Schools TBD

By NWPB News
The first electric bus for a Washington school district went to the Franklin Pierce School District in Tacoma. Courtesy of Washington Governor's Office
Spokane Superintendent Adam Swinyard says parents in his district can choose full-year distance learning or an option that allows for a transition to classroom learning, if that becomes possible later. Both would involve live instruction with teachers. For other districts, like Pullman, there's still an open question about what the fall term will look like, at least in the Read More
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