Columnists

Business
Bert Caldwell

Bert covers business-related news, with a focus on economic development and financial institutions.

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Features
Jim Kershner

Jim writes features, reviews, columns and arts stories.

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Paul Turner

Paul writes "The Slice" column, which appears six times a week and produces general features stories for the Today section.

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Local news
Jim Camden

Jim works on computer-assisted reporting projects and covers politics.

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Doug Clark

Doug writes a column three times each week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday).

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Opinion
Gary Crooks

Gary writes editorials, selects cartoons and edits content for the opinion pages. His "Smart Bombs" column runs on Wednesdays and Sundays.

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Sports
John Blanchette

John writes three columns a week, including the Sunday sports column.

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Rich Landers

Rich writes, photographs, and gathers information for a wide range of Outdoors coverage, with a special feature package in the Sunday Sports section. Landers' outdoors column runs Thursdays in the Sports section.

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Alan Liere

Alan writes a weekly hunting and fishing report that appears in the Sports section as well as other essays and humor pieces that occasionally appear elsewhere in The Spokesman-Review. Alan lives in Spokane County.

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Voices
Mary Jane Honegger

Mary Jane writes a weekly column called Rathdrum Prairie News in the North Idaho Prairie Voice. It appears every Thursday.

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Cindy Hval

Cindy writes for The Spokesman-Review Voices neighborhood sections in Spokane County. Her stories appear weekly, and her Front Porch column appears twice a month in the Thursday Voice.

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Patrick Jacobs

Patrick writes a weekly Get Out! column covering dining, music and arts. Patrick's columns appear in the North Idaho Handle Extra section, published on Sundays.

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Stefanie Pettit

Stefanie writes a bi-weekly column called Landmarks, featuring historic sites, buildings and monuments that often go unnoticed. She is also a regular Front Porch column contributor. The columns appear Thursday in the Voices community news sections. Stefanie is a former Spokane newspaper reporter and Eastern Washington University public information officer.

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Nils Rosdahl

Nils writes a weekly column called Handle on Business, which appears Sundays in the North Idaho Handle Extra section. Nils is an instructor and adviser with the journalism department at North Idaho College.

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