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Matter of Opinion archive for April 14, 2008

MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2008

County GOP platform

Heard this joke this morning about party platforms: "The platform is what's left behind when the train leaves the station."The Spokane County Republicans came up with their platform over the weekend. Among other things, it rejects the current war policy.Hmm ... when non-Republicans do that…

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Jamie's Sunday Column

I miss having Jamie Tobias Neely as a colleague here. But the now EWU journalism prof still graces our pages once a month.In her Sunday column, she skillfully showed the link between early childhood trauma and adult chaos/illness/despair.Researchers were studying obesity among employed middle-class Kaiser…

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Monday Pope Factoid

Just in time for the pope's visit to the United States comes the book "101 Questions & Answers on Popes and the Papacy" by Christopher M. Bellitto of Kean University.(Disclosure: Bellitto is also an editor for Paulist Press and did a fine job editing two…

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Heating up

Monday's editorial questions a regulation under consideration by the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries regarding heat-related illness.

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