Every quarterly edition, frozen exactly as it was published. Old figures are never revised in place and old grades are never quietly upgraded. If something here turns out to be wrong, the correction goes in a new entry in the change log, and the original stays visible.
A scorecard that can edit its own past is not a scorecard. The whole claim here is simple. The numbers were what they were on the day they went up. And anyone can check whether a grade moved because the data moved, or because the argument got inconvenient.
So each quarter, before any figure is touched, the current edition is copied here unchanged. The live page moves forward. This page does not.
One node per edition. As quarters accumulate, this becomes the story of whether Spokane is turning.
August 2026First edition
Off track
1 strong · 4 mixed · 3 weak. Payrolls down 2,900 year over year, with nearly all remaining growth in one sector.
Read the August 2026 edition · its methodology · its calculator
Next: November 2026. That update will add a “what changed since August” summary to the top of the live scorecard, naming every figure that moved and every grade that changed, with the reason. This page will hold the August edition so the two can be compared directly.