March 2, 2013 in Business on Page A6 For 03-02-2013

March 2, 2013 in Business on Page A6 Spokane-based Clearwater Paper Corp. will buy back $50 million worth of common stock, the company announced Friday. Company officials said the plan is eventually to buy back $100 million in …

March 2, 2013 in Business on Page A6 DETROIT – Americans want new cars and trucks, and they’re not letting higher gas prices or political dysfunction stand in their way. New car and truck sales were up 4 …

March 2, 2013 in Business on Page A7 Soft white Cash bid Change March 8.70-8.71 up 0.08-0.06 April 8.65-8.71 up 0.07-0.01 Hard red winter (ordinary percent protein) Cash bid Change March 8.41-8.69 up 0.03 Hard red winter (11.5 …

March 2, 2013 in City on Page B1 A federal decision on the proposed tribal casino on the West Plains will be delayed until at least May 1. The U.S. Department of Interior has granted several requests for …

March 2, 2013 in City on Page B1 From our archives, 100 years ago The Sunday magazine section ran a feature headlined “Remarkable Growth of Public Library in Spokane” extolling the virtues of the local library system.

March 2, 2013 in City on Page B1 The city of Spokane and its insurance company would pay the family of a boy hit by a city dump truck $2.5 million under a settlement that still must be …

March 2, 2013 in City on Page B2 A convicted felon is accused of fleeing from law enforcement and crashing his vehicle into a fuel pump depot at the Coeur d’Alene Airport early Friday morning. The crash caused … 2

March 2, 2013 in City on Page B3 Spokane County Marriage licenses

March 2, 2013 in City on Page B3 For 03-02-2013

March 2, 2013 in City on Page B3 A toddler who fell out a second-story window Friday afternoon was saved, first by his mother grabbing his foot and then by his grandmother, who caught him from below. Spokane … 1

March 2, 2013 in Opinion on Page B4 The latest dispatch from the food wars: For those at high risk of heart disease, following the Mediterranean diet results in 30 percent fewer heart attacks and strokes. Focused on … 5

March 2, 2013 in Opinion on Page B4 “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told the Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” Think about that. Worst case? That a government … 38

March 2, 2013 in Opinion on Page B4 The federal budget sequester was designed to be a hare-brained scheme so obviously stupid that our nation’s leaders wouldn’t allow it to unfold. But down the rabbit hole we go. 12

March 2, 2013 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Remember the days when the Legislature left fit parents alone? Remember the days when the Legislature didn’t draft bills that made fit parents accountable to the courts? Well, those days … 3

March 2, 2013 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 In the Associated Press article “Seattle gun buyback draws crowd (Jan. 27)” we find the following: “In the six months after Seattle’s 1992 gun buyback – the city’s only other … 9

March 2, 2013 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 With Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan’s remark calling Gov. Jay Inslee a “lying whore,” he is just asking for a demeaning article from Spokesman-Review columnist Doug Clark. Fagan has clearly … 18

March 2, 2013 in Letters, Opinion on Page B5 Unfortunately, the College of Cardinals, who will now select the next pope after the resignation of Benedict XVI, are composed mostly of like-minded elderly men, living in isolated splendor, who … 5