(S-R file photo by Christopher Anderson)The Death and Dying Dialogues series prompted me to write my Sunday column on baby boomer death and dying trends, such as Hospice houses, holistic hospital settings and green burials.One trend I labeled "negative" was this trend:There are boomers who…
Some comments were taken down over the weekend, because they violated important rules of decorum: No name-calling. No foul language.Sorry to burst bubbles on people's pet theories for why those posts were removed. It really was in reaction to juvenile posting methods, not whether we…
In Our View, it's taken too long to replace Kim Thorburn, the former head of the Spokane Regional Health District, and the vacancy is becoming an embarrassment.Your thoughts?
Republican politicians are certainly all worked up over the environment. (...) All the Republicans that you quote seem to find many horrible things that will happen if we try to reduce CO2 emissions. Our summers are getting hotter and drier, our winters are wetter but…
I have been closely following this event through other news sources, but it would be nice to have it mentioned somewhere in Blog-dom that The New York Philharmonic Orchestra have arrived in Pyongyang, North Korea, where they are slated to perform in concert, which is…
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