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Community Comment archive for Oct. 2, 2012

TUESDAY, OCT. 2, 2012

If you leave a hole open, they will tax it...

Good evening, Netizens... I read Jonathan Brunt's piece this morning titled “City Council raises hotel tax to back PFD” and nearly had a cow. Supporters of the expansion of the Spokane Convention Center and Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena promised the taxpayers there would be no…

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A Word A Day -- fourth estate

October 02, 2012 Word of the Day fourth estate \FORTH-ih-STAYT\ DEFINITION noun : the public press EXAMPLES "We should all be concerned," the senator asserted, "about the plight of newspapers and the consequences of a weakened fourth estate on our democracy." "As someone firmly entrenched…

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