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For the record, I'm wearing a gray Hawaiian shirt with green palm trees, black jeans and black skechers as I type this. No tutu (for those checking in from Bonner ...

Huckleberries Online  •  28 minutes ago  •8

Brandon Thompkins wanted to be traded from Utah and he wanted to return to Spokane. That's exactly what happened last month when Spokane acquired the former Shock receiver. Thompkins has made ...

SportsLink  •  1 hour, 8 minutes ago

FISHING — The Icicle River's fishing season for spring chinook salmon closes today an hour after sunset.   Read on for the details pertaining the closure of the Chelan County ...

Outdoors blog  •  2 hours, 2 minutes ago

Washington’s unemployment rate dropped to an estimated 6.8 percent in May, the first time under 7 percent since November 2008, when the rate was 6.5 percent, the state Employment Security Department ...

Office Hours  •  2 hours, 11 minutes ago

  A look at the grilling of NSA officials from Tuesday, courtesy of Talking Points Memo

Spin Control  •  3 hours, 13 minutes ago

It's always good to celebrate a little bit of the international when it comes to Spokane. I'm talking about Summer Parkways, which is an idea based on an event from ...

Spokane7  •  4 hours, 12 minutes ago

Here's a news item from the Associated Press: BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal court judge in Idaho has appointed a security specialist in the case of an Uzbek national ...

Eye On Boise  •  4 hours, 44 minutes ago

(The Slice Blog will be back in full swing on Monday. In the meantime, here's something I was thinking about.) It doesn't happen every time, but often enough. I'll say ...

The Slice  •  7 hours, 49 minutes ago

I'm a bit late in postng this news but it's still a noteworthy accomplishment: Beacon Cleaners, a locally owned and operated business, is the 2013 recipient of the Small Business ...

Down To Earth  •  8 hours, 3 minutes ago

The Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane is a regular part of my commute to and from The Spokesman-Review. It was supposed to be closed for two weeks for repairs and ...

EndNotes  •  June 18

This is just a reminder that the Spokane Valley City Council will host their annual budget workshop Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at City Hall, 11707 E. Sprague ...

Spokane Valley blog  •  June 17

Thanks for your email messages.  Whether I call them rants, grievances, or concerns, I always enjoy seeing your points of view on driving topics.  Here are a few of those ...

Precision Driving  •  June 17

John Force earned his fourth victory at Bristol Dragway and the 135th title of his legendary career when he defeated arch-rival Cruz Pedregon in the final round. Force outran daughter ...

Keeping Pace  •  June 17

     My friend called to say she’d just put a ticket to London on her credit card.        “Is the card you’re trying to pay off, the ...

Home Planet  •  June 15

Of the countless Internet videos featuring rednecks endangering their lives with amateur truck jumps, only one deserves to be dubbed the most extreme.  I took the liberty to sort through ...

Brandon's Blog on Cars  •  June 12  •1