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Just one side of the story

During some vigorous channel-flipping late yesterday afternoon, I heard a local TV news person wind up his report on an alleged Spokane crime by saying, “The house has been a problem in the past.”

Well, it might have been nice to get the house’s side of it. I can just imagine.

“Look, I have done nothing wrong. I’m a house. But the guy who owns me insists on renting to one deadbeat dumbass after another. And you should see the parade of winners they have over. There’s your problem. My hands are clean.”

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "The Slice." Read all stories from this blog