Bloglander

ON INLANDER.COM

• NEWS: What will happen to the 107 people, most with chronic mental illness, when downtown Spokane's Carlyle Care Center can no longer house them?

• MUSIC: D.C.-based rapper Oddisee drops some wisdom on art in the era of Donald Trump, rap music as American literature and the hypocrisy in hip-hop and in all of us. He plays the Big Dipper on Saturday.

IN OTHER NEWS:

• Comey over
Questions continue to surround James Comey's ouster as FBI Director in the middle of the Bureau's investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. (New York Times). And with comparisons to Nixon's Watergate scandal, Charles P. Pierce asks, 'Are there any Republican heroes left?' (Esquire)

FUN FACT: President Nixon never fired the Director of the FBI #FBIDirector #notNixonian pic.twitter.com/PatArKOZlk

— RichardNixonLibrary (@NixonLibrary) May 9, 2017

• DNA match brings confession to unsolved assaults
A Spokane man who pleaded guilty to voyeurism after taking a picture of a stranger in a park bathroom is linked by DNA to other unsolved sex crimes. (KXLY)

• Fake opioids kill more
Overdose deaths involving the synthetic opioid drug fentanyl (the same drug that killed Prince) have increased in Washington state, according to state and university data. (Seattle Times)

• Rub some dirt on it
Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation filled a 400-square-foot hole with dirt left by a collapsed waste-storage tunnel. (Spokesman-Review)