Column

It’s not Spokane’s biggest cold-weather problem. But drivers whose cars are not parked in a garage and then do a stunningly inadequate job of scraping their windshields and rear windows are sort of a hazard on the road because they can’t really see.

The boos have it.

Shawn Vestal gives some advice to his son – in 2028, when the now-9-year-old is first able to vote for president.

Skiers are not the only ones in the Spokane area praying for snow.

There’s a reason I keep my Facebook page politics-free and it has little to do with being a journalist. I don’t like conflict. I don’t like name-calling and I really, really don’t like intolerance and ignorance.

By the time you read this, I will most likely be hollering for morphine louder than the entire cast of “Hacksaw Ridge.”

He’s a happening guy.

Maybe this is the year the argument will make a comeback.

Cheney High School relented and will let a student’s yearbook photo run; in it he’s wearing a T-shirt that says, “They Can’t Deport Us All.”

When Sen. Dan Schmidt, D-Moscow, took the lead on crafting the state’s complex Health and Welfare budgets four years ago, there was a “very steep learning curve,” the longtime physician said.

When we think about our area’s celebrated bond with outdoor recreation, we might imagine scenes involving motors or loud splashing. More often, I’m guessing, the images that come to mind are of scenic settings and silence.

Redistributing happiness, one postcard at a time.

A dozen ways to say you’re crazy.

It seems that the entire national discussion about education has been taken over by four letters: STEM. The performance of American students on STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering, mathematics – has been analyzed, worried over, and targeted with every manner of attention we can muster. In the rush to focus on those disciplines, some educators say, we’re underestimating the importance of history, philosophy and the arts – even to those in seemingly unrelated fields.

When the “King of Queens” visited Spokane.

Doug Clark’s Presidential Press Posse made the rounds on Election Night.

Have you ever noticed that there’s an inevitable cascading effect from one simple action? Clean out one drawer in your house and you wind up cleaning out every drawer, not to mention closets and nearly everything else.

Canada: Land of Molson’s, Mounties and Justin Trudeau.

She’s voting for him. I voted for her. But on Wednesday morning, whichever one of us is celebrating and whichever one is mourning, we’ll still be family.