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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

MONDAY, JUNE 20, 2005

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Issue: Phoenix reclaims title as sweatiest city: "Valley of the Sun" city top persperation producer for second time in four years.DFO: I worked for four years in Red Bluff, Calif., where rattlesnakes died if they made the mistake of trying to cross one of the…

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Her Sandiness sez ...

... tells Huckleberries she didn't cry while The Duane was browbeating her at his HQ for her opposition to the downtown gardens. Huckleberries hears otherwise. But she was there. And we weren't. Besides, why would she fib about something like that? No big deal either…

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Wayback Machine -- Brunswick Cafe

Here it is; the Brunswick Cafe, Sherman Avenue between 4th and 5th Streets, in 1968! It was the last year of Lyndon Johnson's presidency...gas was probably 25 cents a gallon, if that...I used to go into the Brunswick as a kid...and drink Cherry Cokes. (strong…

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Photo of the Day -- 6/20/05

NASCAR driver Mark Martin and Batman at Michigan International Speedway Friday. You write the cutline.Top Cutlines:1. So...what is it going to take to put you in this car today? -- Political Geek.2. They was telling me that you was real famous, Mr. Batman. I'm not…

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Best of the Northwest -- 6/20/05

Shannon Sullivan (above, volunteering at her son Dylan's elementary), 37, the single mother pushing the recall effort against Spokane Mayor Jim West, has lost her job and her savings account. And now is looking for work. Her life would have been much simpler had her…

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Shameless Internal Boosterism

From the penultimate paragraph of Bob Paulos' Sunday Brand X column:It should be clear to just about everyone that the major development in the next few years will continue to be along Northwest Boulevard between Government Way and Kathleen ... Riverstone, the new community center…

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Cool Local Photo

Jane Q. Citizen snapped this mutt a coupla weeks ago in a Post Falls alley. She called it the "quintessential north Idaho snapshot." And she could be right.

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Realtors® Uber Alles (Redux)

The blitzkrieg is rolling,they have carried the day;they have turned Coeur d’Aleneinto little L.A.The Bard of Sherman AvenueFeedback:Good God - I hope not ... I fled Left Angeles in 2001 and wanted to get away from this type of helter-skelter developmenmt, but it seems to…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.