Columnists at The Spokesman-Review

City
Jim Camden

Jim serves as the Washington state capital bureau chief in Olympia covering state issues and politics and writes the Spin Control column and the Spin Control blog.

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Features
Jim Kershner

Jim writes occasional stories for the Features section.

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Susan Mulvihill

Susan is a gardening columnist for the Today section of the newspaper.

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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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Idaho
Betsy Z. Russell

Betsy covers Idaho news from the state capitol in Boise.

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Local news
Doug Clark

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

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Shawn Vestal

Shawn writes a news column two times each week (Wednesdays and Fridays).

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Management
Gary Graham

Gary oversees the news department.

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Online
D.F. Oliveria

Dave writes the Huckleberries print column for Handle Extra and compiles the Huckleberries online blog.

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Opinion
Gary Crooks

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

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Sports
John Blanchette

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Bill Jennings

Bill writes a weekly winter skiing column featuring a wide rage of topics from Inland Northwest slopes.

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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
Sandra Babcock

Sandra writes for The Spokesman-Review Valley Voice neighborhood section in Spokane Valley. Her Front Porch column appears monthly in the Saturday Voice.

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Jill Barville

Jill writes for The Spokesman-Review Voices neighborhood sections.

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Deborah Chan

Deborah writes for The Spokesman-Review Valley Voice neighborhood section in Spokane Valley. Her Front Porch column appears monthly in the Saturday Voice.

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Patty Hutchens

Patty writes for The Spokesman-Review neighbordhood sections in North Idaho. Her stories appear weekly, and her Slice of Sandpoint column appears twice a month in the Sunday Handle Extra.

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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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Randy Mann

Randy is a meteorologist, and writes a regular weather column for the Voices.

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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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