Top grades to Medical Lake for civic involvement

This space has voiced concerns in the past urging citizens to take some time away from whatever it is they do in their spare time and pay attention to what goes on in City Hall and within their respective school districts.

That process involves 10s of millions of collective local tax dollars; real money as they say, real big money.

The stewards of that money are our members of the city council and school boards, but as we move towards the Nov. 7 general election, some different numbers jumped off the pages of the Spokane County Elections Office website.

On the positive side was the interest th...