Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Doug Clark: Don’t let bloodsucker see weakness

  March 1, 2012 in City on Page A5 Words you don’t often see in a Clark column: Great job, Spokane City Council! 12

• Rights panel poorly understood

  February 29, 2012 in City on Page A5 Controversy over a proposed deal to rehire a Spokane police sergeant after he was fired for an off-duty drunken driving collision has focused attention on an often-misunderstood state agency involved … 7

• Thoma sues city over dismissal

    February 29, 2012 in City on Page A6 The fired police sergeant who was caught driving drunk and leaving the scene of a collision filed a lawsuit against the city on Tuesday for wrongfully firing him. Bob Dunn, … 39

• Thoma will file lawsuit against city today

    February 28, 2012 in News, City The new proposal would drop $15,000 that would be paid to fired Spokane Police Sgt. Brad Thoma’s attorney. 52

• Spokane City Council rejects Thoma settlement

    February 27, 2012 in News, City The Spokane City Council will vote tonight on a proposed settlement with fired Spokane Police Sgt. Brad Thoma afterall. 108

• Clark: Click heels and repeat: There’s no disgrace like Thoma

  February 26, 2012 in City on Page B1 One day Spokane Mayor David Condon declares there’s no good way out of the Brad Thoma tar pit. The City Council, he says, must vote to put Thoma back on … 111

• Police Guild calls Thoma’s behavior ‘reprehensible’

  February 25, 2012 in City on Page A5 Although the Spokane Police Guild filed a grievance in Sgt. Brad Thoma’s defense, the union on Friday called Thoma’s behavior when he drove drunk and fled from the scene of … 73

• Police Guild calls Thoma behavior “reprehensible”

  February 24, 2012 in News, City The Spokane Police Guild today called former police Sgt. Brad Thoma’s decision to flee the scene of an off-duty drunken crash “reprehensible” but said its job is to make sure … 114

• Clark: Drunken cop back on job after hiring genius lawyer

  February 23, 2012 in City on Page A5 A mediated settlement would reward drunken driver Brad Thoma with nearly 300 grand in back pay and lawyer fees, plus put the fired Spokane police sergeant back on the job … 38

• Fired officer’s settlement unleashes outcry, review

  February 23, 2012 in City on Page A1 A controversial plan to rehire an alcoholic police officer fired after an off-duty drunken driving crash, and to give him back pay, has officials scrambling to explain the decision and … 65

• Mayor defends Thoma settlement

  February 22, 2012 in News Mayor David Condon today defended the City of Spokane’s decision to rehire an alcoholic police sergeant fired after an off-duty drunken driving crash. 66

• Settlement awards officer job, back pay

  February 22, 2012 in City on Page A1 A Spokane police officer fired in 2009 after driving drunk while off duty, hitting a pickup with his truck and leaving the scene of the collision is likely to be … 119

• Change in DUI law means fired cop can be rehired

  January 8, 2011 in City on Page A1 A former Spokane police sergeant fired after a drunken hit-and-run crash has been offered a spot as a detective after a change in state law lifted his driving restrictions. City … 65

• Don’t blow off Thoma’s side of the story just yet

  February 4, 2010 in City on Page A5 Let it never be said that Doug Clark’s the sort of guy who can’t admit when he’s wrong. So listen up. I totally blew it on the issue of breathalyzers … 9

• Doug Clark: Bottle babies in blue make news again

  January 10, 2010 in City on Page B1 Corporal Clark is back by popular demand to answer your law enfarcement questions. Q: We’re barely into the New Year and another local cop has made the news for possible … 1

• Doug Clark: Breathalyzer Brad offers wobbly defense

  December 29, 2009 in City on Page A5 Another season of peace, love and excruciatingly inconvenient gift-return lines has passed, and it’s time for me to get back to vivisecting the bah-humbug realities of life. And nothing curdles … 2

• Police sergeant in DUI crash on paid leave

  September 24, 2009 in City A Spokane police sergeant accused of driving under the influence and possible hit and run has been placed on paid administrative leave. Bradley N. Thoma, who has been with the … 8