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Spokane's county-level government has a way of getting good things done without much flash or drama. (The city is the opposite: lots of political theater, not much effective action.)
This year the county had an original, sensible and charitable idea: use jail inmates to chop and split wood for poor people who have wood-burning heaters. Gives the inmates something positive to do, gives the poor folks a warm winter.
Bravo!
Story here.