This new book tells of Cherie Rodgers and her improbable battle against the Cowles media dynasty for “the last company town in America.”
Publication date: 2008
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Hole in the wall:
Former Councilwoman Cherie Rodgers stands beneath the spot where a woman died. For nine years Rodgers fought to expose the secrets of the Cowles shopping mall. |
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Death by Parking
Were poor maintenance and improper inspection
of the Cowles
garage fatal?
Former assistant city manager says he was ordered not to inspect the garage
Former Cowles bookkeeper claims he was told to falsify garage books
By Larry Shook
THE FINAL ACT OF JO ELLEN SAVAGE was to braid her life into an extraordinary tale of dynasty, fear, and the dark arts of modern propaganda.
Haunting images of her last moments survive. It’s just past noon, April 8, 2006—a brooding Saturday of gray skies and rainy streets. Security cameras in the downtown Spokane, Wash., River Park Square garage capture Savage’s Subaru Outback as it arrives. Floor-by-floor, Savage ascends the garage behind a Chevrolet Uplander. In jerky sequenced photographs, the cameras record the doomed procession. On the fifth floor, the Uplander turns and parks against the garage’s outer wall.
The Subaru follows. The next time you see it, it’s upside down on the garage ramp, four stories below. Jo Savage, the 62-year-old art director of the Washington State University alumni magazine, lies dying inside. Complete Story
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