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• Fast justice is best for small-time offenders

  August 26, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 In many people’s minds, an ideal criminal justice system is one that locks lawbreakers up for as long as possible and makes them miserable in the meantime. In some hard-core …

• In Darkness, Light

  March 28, 1998 in City on Page B6 The teacher stepped in front of the student and took the bullets. A split-second act done, perhaps, without a conscious thought. In Jonesboro, Ark., an entire town grieves. Two school …

• Pothole At City Hall

  March 28, 1998 in City on Page B6 John Talbott, mayor of Spokane, wants a car. A car paid for by taxpayers, even though he once criticized government spending on such things as cars. We took Talbott’s request …

• Post Falls People, Vote On Bond

  March 19, 1998 in Idaho on Page B6 Four months have gone by since Nick Scherling left Post Falls Middle School on foot for home. The cold wintry temperatures have given way to crocuses. The grass is beginning …

• Deleting Ms Gouge Blackmail Tactics Pc Vendors Offering A Competing Browser Had To Pay More For Windows.

  February 13, 1998 in City on Page B6 It’s an American dream come true if there ever was one. Smart kid just out of college with more ideas than money starts up a software company in a garage. …

• Marketplace Losers Take Alternate Route Not Monopolistic Capable Nonproprietary, Lower-Cost Or Free Products Win Out.

  February 13, 1998 in City on Page B6 Your tax dollars at work: Prodded by competitors of Microsoft Corp., political demagogues and busybody government lawyers are yapping like a pack of bloodhounds, hot on the trail of a …

• Bill Maps The Way To A Better Future

  February 8, 1998 in City on Page B8 In spite of objections from nervous employees of Eastern Washington University, efforts to improve this area’s public higher education offerings continue to progress. Where, a puzzled bystander may ask, should …

• 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 …

• Such An Easy Way To Avoid Real Grief

  January 31, 1998 in City on Page B4 The woman was well dressed and her haircut looked expensive. She used the airport bathroom, walked out of the stall and then sauntered out of the restroom. She didn’t stop …

• Nethercutt Sees What Sabey Can’t

  January 26, 1998 in Nation/World on Page A10 Rep. George Nethercutt has lent his good name to the effort to revitalize downtown Spokane. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last week, Nethercutt …

• Forging Ahead On Trail Of Success

  January 22, 1998 in City on Page B4 The hostile 1983 takeover of Western Frontiers Inc. by Coeur d’Alene businessman Duane Hagadone was one of the best things that ever happened to Post Falls. It forced Bob Templin …

• Speaker Should Listen, Pay Heed

  January 11, 1998 in City on Page B8 Clyde Ballard sits in the eye of a political hurricane. And he can let fly with some pretty good gusts of wind, himself. As Speaker of Washington state’s House of …

• Score Big One For The Common Man Work, Talent Paid Off Bono Got His Start Making Meat Deliveries Along Sunset Boulevard.

  January 9, 1998 in City on Page B6 Was Sonny Bono’s lightweight reputation deserved or did his political career prove the critics wrong? Even in death, U.S. Rep. Sonny Bono can’t shake his 1970s persona as a clown …

• These Nice Guys Should Finish First

  December 31, 1997 in City on Page B6 If this were the movies, Washington State would win the Rose Bowl tomorrow, with a miraculous touchdown as the final gun sounds. That’s the way it works. The good guys …

• Ewu Affair A Test Of State’s Resolve

  December 29, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A10 Eastern Washington University needs help, and Gov. Gary Locke has moved decisively to provide it. Locke named three well-qualified trustees to Eastern’s board. Each appears to have an open mind …

• Locke’s Gas Tax Plan The Better Solution

  December 28, 1997 in City on Page B6 Gov. Gary Locke, that big-spending Democrat, wants to raise the gasoline tax. Braaaaaack. Republican legislators, those short-sighted tightwads, don’t want to improve our potholed, congested roads. Neener neener neener. If …

• Work, Simplicity Propel Habitat

  December 27, 1997 in City on Page B6 Denise Otradovec may soon hang a “Home Sweet Home” sign at her new house on East DeSmet. This year Habitat for Humanity’s Spokane chapter celebrates its 10th anniversary. It is …

• 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 …

• , Virginia …

  December 24, 1997 in City on Page B4 Editor’s note: One hundred years ago, The New York Sun published this, the most famous editorial ever written: We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at …

• Benefits Could Be Substantial

  December 21, 1997 in City on Page B10 Last week, state Sen. Gordon Crow looked like a man who had just had a cigar blow up in his face. The Coeur d’Alene Republican unwittingly stirred up the North …

• Receiving Through The Giving Of Self

  December 20, 1997 in City on Page B6 They have old-fashioned names: Owen, Loren, Mac, Millard, Mary, Betsy, Allen, Marv. They are mostly retired from paid work, removed from the rush-rush-rush of family and career that marked their …

• Death, Destruction Are Terrible Chasers

  December 18, 1997 in City on Page B6 Whether your celebrations sparkle with cubic zirconia or diamonds, flow with Budweiser or Dom Perignon, one fact of holiday life crosses all lines of class and income. Drinking and driving …

• Cooler-Running Motors Hold Up

  December 17, 1997 in City on Page B6 Decades ago, a high school senior was forced to choose between working more hours at a grocery store and playing a final year of varsity baseball. He was on his …

• 911 There In Time Of Need

  December 15, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A14 Her voice provided a lifeline. The 11-year-old boy had just been shot by his mother. He had the wherewithal to dial 911, and the dispatcher comforted, soothed and got the …

• Prompt Resolution Should Be The Rule

  December 15, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A14 She lived every 15-year-old girl’s nightmare. Two Ferris High School boys created a business card and put the girl’s name and phone number on it, along with a computer-generated color …

• A Light On Darker Corners Of The Mind

  December 13, 1997 in City on Page B6 In one of Maya Angelou’s most memorable poems, she wrote: “… Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear, I rise. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream …

• Cooperation Laudable

  December 11, 1997 in City on Page B6 … And speaking of high-profile issues, the City of Spokane and the state Department of Ecology are on their way to settling a doozy. Kathryn Kelly, a scientist hired by …

• Thanks, 4.4 Millions

  December 11, 1997 in City on Page B6 Congratulations to the Spokane County commissioners and other stewards of the county’s finances. Five years ago, the county’s reserve funds had fallen to $517,000, so low that Wall Street analysts …

• Facilitate Breastfeeding

  December 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A16 Thirty minutes is not much time in a work day. Employees can waste that many minutes on personal calls, office gossip and meetings that last longer than they should. Thirty …

• Resist Urge To Gripe

  December 8, 1997 in Nation/World on Page A16 Judging by the toxic talk that follows any attempt to raise the pay of Spokane’s city administrators, these top jobs must have been filled in the dark of night by …

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