Spokane mayor 'extremely optimistic' about possible local reopening
As recently as two weeks ago, Governor Inslee was resistant to reopening Washington's economy one region at a time, saying a statewide approach made the most sense.
But after extensive pressure from many eastside leaders, Inslee and his staff said it's now an option on the table.
That excited Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward.
"I wanted to advocate – and have been for several weeks now – to look at us differently than the west side, and I'm happy to see that the governor's willing to do that,” Woodward said in an interview with KREM. "We think that our situation is here is much different, when you look at… the number of cases, the number of increases that we've had, the hospitalizations, [and the] capacity for more hospital beds if we need it."
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