December 15, 2012 in City on Page B3 A federal judge ruled Friday that his court has jurisdiction to apply the U.S. Superfund law to a Canadian company that acknowledges polluting Lake Roosevelt in Washington state. U.S. District …

December 15, 2012 in City on Page B3 A convicted mail thief was sentenced Friday in federal court for forcibly interfering with a deputy U.S. marshal’s duties. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Roseanna Malouf sentenced Tony Lawrence Gust, …

December 15, 2012 in Opinion on Page B4 This editorial from the Los Angeles Times does not necessarily reflect the views of The Spokesman-Review editorial board. Nothing exposes partisan hypocrisy quite like the filibuster, that irksome parliamentary rule …

December 15, 2012 in Opinion on Page B4 For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan this week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state, birthplace of the … 54

December 15, 2012 in Opinion on Page B4 Ah, the great American West, where man can generally breathe free and also inhale – woman, too. Thank you, thank you, voters in Colorado and Washington state, for legalizing marijuana. … 1

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Call me naive, silly or uninformed, but I do not understand why we plan to send 54 million tons of American coal to China and other Asian markets. Is this … 4

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 By a wide margin, Americans feel that Bush-era tax cuts for the super wealthy should be terminated. These unnecessary tax cuts for the ultra-rich are political corruption plain and simple; … 18

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Wow! Matthew Descamps (Dec. 2) should not be declared a career criminal. Only an attorney and legal language that contains no common sense at all, and a law professor at … 3

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Since the election, there has been a flood of opinions expressed in The Spokesman-Review proclaiming the conservative movement has experienced its Waterloo and there will be much rejoicing. Well, you … 3

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Carolyn Jacobsen (Nov. 14) and other studded tire users, please open up your eyes and read the safety reports! Every current report states that studded tires actually have less traction … 4

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 I attended the most recent Spokane City Council meeting as a member of the Spokane Alliance, an organization that represents common interests of 20,000 Spokane citizens from various education, labor, … 13

December 15, 2012 in Opinion on Page B5 Over 1 million Washington residents currently depend on Medicare, the government health care program for seniors and the disabled. But Medicare faces a $40 trillion shortfall over the next several … 2

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 So U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell wants us to give up Social Security raises. Well, if he didn’t live in civil service retirement land, where all perks are protected … 3

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 The musicians of the Spokane Symphony would like to take this opportunity to thank you, the people of Spokane, for the support you have given us during the past month. …

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Dana Milbank’s Dec. 6 column is the latest bomb from this progressive Democrat wherein he pans Mitt Romney for joining the board of directors of Marriott. 5

December 15, 2012 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 The Park Board is threatening to close the Imax due to low patronage. I just went to the 3:30 showing of “Breaking Dawn,” and there were only 10 people. Imax … 1

December 15, 2012 in City on Page B6 The Idaho State Police seized about 120 pounds of marijuana Thursday from a vehicle traveling east on Interstate 90 in Shoshone County. The driver, Serafin Moreno, 40, was arrested and … 4

December 15, 2012 in City on Page B6 Spokane County Marriage licenses

December 15, 2012 in City on Page B6 HELENA – The Montana Land Board is preparing to sell easements to a Canadian company so the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline can run through the state as it crosses …

December 15, 2012 in Sports on Page C1 The Spokane Chiefs were done, cooked, hung out to dry. Mitch Holmberg had a different idea.