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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.

The new U-District bridge linking the promise of college with the problems of a neighborhood is a chance for change that Spokane should embrace.

In a geographical state of mind.

REI’s classes in “Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse” could come in handy the day after Election Day.

I’m old. Happy to be here, especially since there was a time I didn’t think I’d make it to here. I’m just having a little trouble recognizing that there’s a here here and that I’m actually, you know, here.

Time to redraw and rename the Crapo Line, after the guy who really deserved it all along: Chris Vance.

It has been suggested a time or two in The Slice that, when at airports in other cities, it’s possible to tell that you have found the gate for the outbound Spokane flight just from looking at the people seated there.

Dougles the Clown wants to put to rest any suspicions people harbor about clowns.

It’s a week before Halloween, so you’re probably wondering.

Counterfeit t-shirts are the tip of the iceberg. Doug Clark rounds up other counterfeit WSU products.

There are few political yard signs in Kootenai County this fall. Maybe everyone is afraid to admit whom they support. Or they fear that fanatical followers of extreme candidates might take note. But there is one sign, with black lettering on a yellow background, that catches the attention of passers-by: “Vote No ‘Demon Lord’ Judge Peterson.” One was planted near Carl’s Jr. on Appleway last week. “Demon Lord” is shorthand for “Orcus: Lord of the Undead,” a pseudonym used by Clark Peterson, a magistrate in the 1st Judicial District.

During a televised debate, 1st District GOP Rep. Raul Labrador went after his Democratic challenger, James Piotrowski, saying, “He’s not a moderate,” and reading a tweet that Piotrowski sent from his personal Twitter account in February of this year. The tweet: “@BernieSanders this tweet cost you the vote of this lifelong progressive, labor activist and socialist. This was beneath you.” The tweet was posted at 7 p.m. on Feb. 3, 2016. It’s since been deleted.

Option abound for delivery bag.

That theory is sound.

Downtown Spokane is in the midst of a massive, generational transformation, a series of changes that will redefine it for years to come.

Snowbirds missing out on winter satisfaction.

It’s not every day that some guy you’ve never met from the Mississippi Gulf Coast thinks you’re a fighter pilot.

I seem to collect lost boys the way other folks collect license plates or trading cards. From a tiny autistic boy who’d escaped from his house to play on a busy street on a Sunday morning, to Ricky who got confused when he got off the school bus one afternoon, I seem to be a lost boy magnet. This time there were two of them looking at me with anxious eyes.