Doug Floyd

Recent stories by Doug

• Doug Floyd: So long, and foster democracy

  June 26, 2011 in Opinion on Page B8 The sedan ahead of me was barreling along the byways outside of Kansas City, and I was glued to its bumper. The Washington state trooper at the wheel was hustling … 10

• On reclaiming civil discourse

  September 13, 2009 in Opinion on Page B9 Whatever it was that was so shocking about South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson’s “You lie” outburst during President Barack Obama’s health care speech on Wednesday, it wasn’t the simple breach … 3

• Events Spotlight Best Of Our Youth

  March 21, 1998 in City on Page B6 It’s spring, the season when, as poet Joan Walsh Anglund put it: “… new life presses out from every growing thing, fulfilling our trust, renewing our faith, that this has …

• Evolution Alone Should Be Taught Place For Everything Faith-Based Teaching Appropriate At Church And In The Home.

  March 13, 1998 in City on Page B6 Creationists declare that evolution, (they prefer to call it Darwinism) is only a theory and no more entitled to be part of the public school curriculum than any other theory. …

• Void Power Play Of A Selfish Few

  March 5, 1998 in City on Page B5 Cherie Rodgers is known as a clean air activist. That shouldn’t keep the Spokane city councilwoman off the Spokane County Air Pollution Control Authority, given the clean air agency’s mission. …

• Building Community Safe After-School Places A Necessity

  February 17, 1998 in City on Page B4 “It’s 10 p.m. Do you know where your children are?” That familiar question has been around for awhile. It’s an appropriate reminder to parents of their responsibility for the guidance …

• People Can Guide Downtown Plans

  February 4, 1998 in City on Page B6 Early in October 1959, a handful of New York consultants arrived in Spokane to begin laying out a 20-year development plan for the city’s core. Four months later, the preliminary …

• Put Interchange Into Higher Gear

  January 20, 1998 in City on Page B4 Washington state Sen. Bob McCaslin takes great pride in never voting for tax hikes. Yet even that staunch conservative has said he’s ready to support a fuel tax increase if …

• Extra Day Off Only Invites Cynicism Not Fair Government Workers Get A Break That Many Others Don’t Receive.

  December 26, 1997 in City on Page B6 Declaring federal holidays is not a task to be undertaken lightly. The last time Congress decided to establish a holiday was in 1983 when Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday was …

• Public’s Safety Takes A Back Seat

  November 20, 1997 in City on Page B6 To every citizen or motorist who ever muttered, “Where’s a cop when you really need one?” one answer is: Not on the state and county highways on and near the …

• Silence Tantamount To Active Complicity

  November 16, 1997 in City on Page B8 When it comes to talking to kids, the S-word that stops more parents in their tracks than “sex” is “suicide.” The typical response when a youngster drops hints about ending …

• These Guardians Are Serving Us All

  November 8, 1997 in City on Page B6 In courtroom legalese they’re known as guardians ad litem. In the language of childhood make-believe, they would be called guardian angels. “They” are the volunteers who dedicate heart-wrenching hours to …

• Common Sense Is Available Locally $84,000 Answer: Concentrate On Students Who Live In The Region. Sell Your Best Programs.

  October 31, 1997 in City on Page B6 The sequence of name changes that eventually converted Cheney Normal School into Eastern Washington University tells us something about the modernization of public higher education in the Spokane area. But …

• Hjr 4209 Offers Flexibility

  October 30, 1997 in City on Page B5 In 1970, Washington voters decided this state’s longstanding restriction against lending public money for private purposes was too limiting. They amended the Constitution just enough to let local governments loan …

• Barlow’s Attuned To Needs And Goals

  October 26, 1997 in City on Page B9 Twenty years ago, the crisis in Washington state’s public schools was how to pay for them. Today’s crisis is even more urgent than that. It’s how to set higher learning …

• Value Fair Play, Not Foul; Pass 677

  October 15, 1997 in City on Page B4 Homosexuality is controversial. Fairness isn’t. And Initiative 677 is about fairness more than it’s about homosexuality.

• Too-Simple Remedy Is A Disservice To All Dragnet The Graduated License Plan Impacts All Teens, Including Those Whose Performance Is Exemplary.

  October 10, 1997 in City on Page B6 It’s the American way: identify a problem, write a law, go on to the next problem. So, if teenagers account for a disproportionate share of traffic accidents, it’s not surprising …

• Building Community Future’s Happening Right Where You Live

  October 6, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A12 A virus is going around. It goes around every election season. It’s called cynicism.

• A Citizen’s Right To Police The Police

  September 28, 1997 in City on Page B10 Police officers are vested with virtual life-and-death authority. That, Spokane Police Chief Terry Mangan has said, subjects them to a higher standard of conduct than other citizens. In spite of …

• Public Should Be More Conscientious

  September 20, 1997 in City on Page B6 It doesn’t happen often, perhaps twice a year, that a hazardous-waste scare shuts down one of the Spokane regional trash-disposal facilities. When it does, it’s annoying, it’s costly and, usually, …

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