If you're weary of e-mail about money-making schemes from Nigeria and pharmaceutical remedies to all of adolescence's remedial insecurities, you probably have ideas for dealing with a spam king who was in court in Seattle this week. Today's editorial offers some suggestions.
First loose thread of the week at A Matter of Opinion: What's on your mind?
Republicans say we should be drilling for oil in ANWR, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Democrats say that wouldn't produce a drop of new oil for 10 years.So is that a harsher dig at Republicans -- or at Democrats who were objecting to drilling in…
No, I don't think they're Nazis, just like the play on words.Two courts have slapped down the dorm patrols of the Wazzu campus police. Time for the university -- all universities -- to rewrite their policies so they don't violate the Fourth Amendment. That's Our…
We're out of here.How about you?More tomorrow. Garyc shall return.
Our edit today called on both government and private employers to be vigilant in checking whether employees received degrees from bogus universities. Dixie Ellen Randock, 58, of Spokane, was sentenced last week for selling more than 16,000 fraudulent high school and college degrees around the…
It's a busy week in edit board land. Believe it or not, we have already begun candidate endorsement interviews, because the primary is Aug. 19!So we have politics and issues crowding our brains, but what's on yours?Blog lines have officially opened for the day.
Looks like the Defense Department has lost confidence in the Air Force on contracting matters. Doesn't help that the GAO found many errors in the process that could've helped Boeing.Note that the irregularities had nothing to do with the noisiest objection: Too much of it…
Here's an open thread. What's on your agenda today?
1. Slashing reimbursements to doctors is a sick way to fix Medicare.2. Idaho needs to peer into those secret tax deals cut with multi-state corporations.
Take a look. No word on when he will arrive in Spokane.Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
Spokane Mayor Mary Verner is considering a water conservation plan much like that in Post Falls. Do you think water conservation is necessary for Spokane?
In Sunday's editorial, we tout the free speech principles of the First Amendment, which are uniquely American.Do you appreciate the First Amendment. Or does it go too far?
From our editorial:It looks as if residents of southeast Spokane who don't want to be big-boxed in are going to have to deal with the kind of suburban development they've boxed out for years. Drawn by the lure of millions in sales-tax dollars, the City…
(AP file photo.)Today's editorial applauded a state program that helps low-income smokers kick the habit. It should save taxpayer money, plus help people find jobs. Whether anyone admits it, certain negative assumptions are made about job candidates who smoke.Several of my family members once smoked…
The day is done.It's been busy around here...How about your day?
(Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich talked with children in the West Central Community Center Headstart in March. S-R archive photo by Jesse Tinsley.)From our editorial today:States pondering the best way to devise early childhood education ought to look at two recent studies. They conclude, in…
A reader called and asked if anyone had ever died from being waterboarded. If no one has, he said, why are so many people objecting to its use. I said I didn't know. I told him I'd send his question into blogland to see what…
(Spokesman-Review archive photo by Christopher Anderson)Welcome, rain or tempest From yon airy powers, We have languished for them Many sultry hours. -- From A Summer Shower by Henry Timrod found at Poetry Foundation. It's muggy like the weather "back East." But storms are coming --…
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