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The Slice archive for May 24, 2011

TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011


Texting idiocy

So I duck into the downtown post office and head for the service counters. There's one employee on duty, and he is busy with a customer. One other person, a young man in a hoodie, is positioned about 10 or 15 feet away from the…

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North By East West 

Here's one for the Changes in Latitude file. "Regarding the North Idaho/Northern Idaho debate," wrote Shannon Bahr-Allert. "When I was visiting Pocatello last summer we were watching the local TV station and they refer to 'Eastern Idaho's biggest Ford dealership' or 'Eastern Idaho's best weather…

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Jumping ahead 

Let's preview the Slice question that will appear in Thursday's column. (Why wait for the actual newspaper? As they said on "The Six Million Dollar Man," we have the technology.) Which of the many Spokane movie theaters that no longer exist was your favorite? I…

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