So, OK, we have Spokane. We have Spokane Valley. And there used to be Spokane Falls. But what if someone wanted to establish a utopian village near here and use "Spokane" as the root for this new place's name. Well, other towns and cities in…
How many times does something have to happen or how prevalent does a behavior have to be before it's appropriate to refer to it as "a Spokane thing"? "Twice on the National News," said Curt Olsen.
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Spokane's Ken Martin was on the phone with a customer service rep at a cable TV shopping network. He thinks she might have been in Florida. At the point where she was keyboarding his address, she stopped to mention that she knew someone who had…
"There may be some virtue in avoiding the obvious, and I appreciate your point about how a complicating factor is that some people were born in other states than those with which they're legitimately identified," wrote Wayne Pomerleau. "Here are two cases in point: It…
Here's a note from Bill Ellis. "I enjoyed reading your list of nominees for state flags, but as a lifelong Oregonian, relocated to Spokane in 2006, I must comment on your choice for the Oregon flag. If you wanted a writer you needed either David…
One of my favorite transplanted Montanans weighed in on the state flags matter. "As much as I like Coop, why not shake it up a bit and put Jeannette Rankin on the flag," he wrote. "She was the first woman in Congress, elected from Montana…
"I like so many of your proposals," wrote Milt Nelson. "But as far as Oklahoma is concerned, while Woody Guthrie was surely a significant person, can there by ANYONE else than Will Rogers on the flag of the Sooner State?"
"We bought our current house, which needed no remodeling, after living in a house that did," wrote Mike McKeehan. "I managed to improve the master bedroom and family room in the old house. But there was still much that Judy wanted done and which I…
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