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Stuff the turkey with ham AND bacon? Not a bad idea, kid.

Whitman College’s new mascot – the Blues – evokes juke joints, not a mountain range, says Doug Clark.

So, who are the “Citizens for HJR 5”?

It’s a nice place, except for the cold, the mud and the “dull” business climate.

Or, just fill you weekends with other responsibilities from now until Christmas.

It’s the perfect time to fill out your ballot.

They’ve got you beat.

And now they’re ready to go back in the closet.

Doug Clark is looking for members of his 2016 Presidential Press Posse; do you think you have the right stuff?

Rain, rain, go away ...

Imagine it: Your house on fire. Your children inside.

The mystery of the Doug Clark belt buckle has been solved – sort of.

The trick might be in the keeping track.

The last part of one of the state’s largest butterfly collections has been given to Washington State University.

Idaho Gov. Butch Otter is urging a “no” vote on HJR 5, the constitutional amendment on the November ballot, and he’s added a new twist to the debate: Otter says a clause in the amendment that says “in whole or in part” actually would vastly expand the Legislature’s current power to review administrative rules, rather than simply writing that current power into the state Constitution.

“Joltin Joe” DiMaggio may have gone away, as the old Simon & Garfunkle song says. But his old teammate Yogi Berra still provides words to live by in this fall of discontent while we wish/hope/pray for the presidential election to go away, too. Robert Cliff, of Coeur d’Alene, is Facebooking daily one of the famous non sequiturs from the late New York Yankee catcher, to keep his sanity and to bring a smile to his friends’ faces.

Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow.

That’s what they all say.

The third graders in Tiffiny Santos’ class at Spokane’s Westview Elementary School have been my go-to youth advisers this year. And they came through once again after The Slice sought advice about creating a Halloween classic. So let’s get right to it.