Good evening, Netizens... It seems quite typical that anytime you have the Prosecutors, Fire Department and Police Guild involved in any public issue, you nearly always end up with facts that do not match. Mayor Mary Verner doesn't seem to get her figures quite right,…
Good morning, Netizens... We already have had our discussions, such as they are, about President Obama having won the Pulitzer Prize for Peace, so when cartoonist David Horsey put that issue squarely in his sights this morning, I simply grinned to myself, muttering something thickly…
Good morning, Netizens...Photo Credit: Marshall Smith After a perfectly lovely breakfast Saturday morning with M Hibbs, Ron-the-Cop and Marshall Smith, one of the many topics of conversation was the unusually cold temperatures outside for, as we sat down to breakfast the outside temperature was just…
Good morning, Netizens... In this photo released Friday by Playboy Magazine, the cover of the November 2009 issue featuring Marge Simpson is shown. It's a first for the magazine, which has never featured a cartoon character before. It will hit the newsstands October 16. In…
Good morning, Netizens...Yes, it is another of those days when I have to scrape my face, attempt to appear like I might know what I am doing and hit the road earlier than I normally would like. Hence the breakfast this morning has been firmly…
Good morning, Netizens...Cartoonist David Horsey asks a question that perhaps doesn't really apply to Spokane's racial makeup, although one has to admit the teen violence and gang mentality has already begun to arrive here in sufficient numbers to justify the Spokane Police Department having a…
Good morning, Netizens... AP news wire [Oslo, Norway] In this AP photograph, President Barack Obama addresses the 64th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Are you sitting down? It might be a good thing if you are because President Barack Obama has won the…
Spokane Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick is being pursued by law enforcement agencies all over the United States because she is a , , , , , minority. It is interesting to me that in the 21st Century, with all the wonders of science, all the…
Good morning, Netizens...Twenty reasons why I cancelled Ron-the-Cop's response to my message yesterday about having breakfast. Well, the first nineteen don't count. The real problem I had with the message wasn't so much that Ron announced he and Steve Thompson gathered together to discuss various…
Good evening, everyone... As our regional weather begins to lean toward fall-like conditions, it is perhaps easier for some to remember the debacle of snow removal last winter. Perhaps that is why Mayor Mary Verner and the City of Spokane are rolling out a revised…
Good morning, Netizens... There have been a few times, and I stress the word FEW when I simply could not attend to my appointed rounds with Marty and various other dignitaries at our occasional breakfasts. I was looking forward to this morning, as the Deities…
Good evening, Netizens... Who in our midst could have possibly averted the news about David Letterman's sordid affairs with his staff members. DISCLAIMER: This, of course, all took place BEFORE he was married to another staff member. The fact remains he apparently had a conga…
Good morning, Netizens... The AP picture of the day which comes to us from Canada, reminds me of raising chickens quite a bit, although I admit I never saw any chicken pop an egg quite THAT big before. An egg weighing in at 143 grams…
Good morning, Netizens... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 263,000 jobs in September, lifting the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent, according to a government report on Friday that fueled fears the weak labor market could undermine economic recovery. The Labor Department said the…
Good morning, Netizens... The year was October 17, 1989, at 5:04 PM. I was standing in the San Francisco International Airport waiting to catch a plane to Seattle, when the ground began to shake. In the aftermath, I saw the damage throughout most of the…
Good evening, Netizens... David Horsey makes a minor point appear quite innocuous while he overlooks one stark fact that somehow has eluded most of the policy-makers in Washington, DC. As far as I know nobody has won a war in Afghanistan. Perhaps I made a…
Spokesman-Review readers blog about news and issues in Spokane written by Dave Laird.
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