Valerie Osier, Author at RANGE Media

Valerie Osier

Valerie Osier is from the Inland Empire of Southern California and found her love for journalism while at community college. She has been the Audience and Membership Editor at RANGE since January 2022 and is proud to call Spokane home. Valerie is passionate about empowering her community through knowledge and bringing important issues to light. Outside of the newsroom, you can find her reading books, thrifting for new treasures or trying a new DIY home project with far too much confidence.

Spokane City Council poised to create an eviction diversion program

By Erin Sellers, Aaron Hedge & Valerie Osier ● CIVICS ● December 8, 2025

CIVICS: Spokane County set to spend millions on TASERs, body cameras and surveilling private drones.

Hello CM Kate Telis, goodbye algorithmic rental price fixing?

By Erin Sellers, Aaron Hedge & Valerie Osier ● CIVICS ● December 1, 2025

CIVICS: Spokane City Council could ban software artificially inflating rents, set their legislative agenda and laying groundwork to ban kratom.

Big budget business for Spokane city

By Erin Sellers, Valerie Osier & Aaron Hedge ● CIVICS ● November 24, 2025

CIVICS: Plus, extra overtime on offer for SpoVal cops during holidays, Spokane Valley projects a deficit in 2026 and Spo City could declare 2025 the year of the Cooperative.

Proposed purchase of crowd control noise device to draw protest

By Aaron Hedge, Erin Sellers & Valerie Osier ● CIVICS ● November 10, 2025

CIVICS: Plus, homeless shelter contracts, fast-tracking PFAS filters and eviction prevention

A turn to the left?

By Erin Sellers, Aaron Hedge & Valerie Osier ● Election 2025 ● November 7, 2025

Following national and statewide trends, progressive candidates and ballot measures in Spokane win big. Here’s where they stand as of Friday.

District 2 residents sue to disqualify candidate Alejandro Barrientos from office

By Valerie Osier ● Election 2025 ● October 27, 2025

The lawsuit cites RANGE reporting on Barrientos’ ambiguous living arrangements in different districts in the year before he filed for candidacy.

WIDE RANGE: Keep Big Bird, kill journalism?

By Erin Sellers & Valerie Osier ● RANGE ● September 26, 2025

Wide RANGE is usually available through email only, but we’re giving you a peek at the sheer perfection of our fun Friday round up newsletter.

Resting for the fight ahead

By Valerie Osier ● RANGE ● August 1, 2025

The RANGE team is taking a week for collective rest.

Q&A with SPD Chief Kevin Hall on ICE and the protests

By Luke Baumgarten & Valerie Osier ● Criminal Legal ● July 28, 2025

What happens when Kootenai Sheriffs come to town? How far do WA’s sanctuary state laws go? Do local cops ever know when ICE is going to take action? We found out answers to those questions and more.

Justice Forral pleads not guilty to ‘unlawful imprisonment’ charges from ICE protests

By Aaron Hedge & Valerie Osier ● Criminal Legal ● June 25, 2025

The activist appeared for a third time in court in as many weeks on June 25 to face the felony accusations.

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