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What goes around comes around, like and old Spirograph.

Chip off the old remote

It’s not the baseball Abner Doubleday envisioned when he supposedly (mythically?) conceived the game back in 1839. Yet if sheer shrieking fun counts for anything, what goes on every Tuesday evening on the ballfield at Spokane’s Roosevelt Elementary School exemplifies the spirit of what the National Pastime was intended to be.

There are more than three dozen ponderosas surrounding my house, from a few that are 5 feet tall to the big guy just outside my front door that’s more than 100 feet tall and has a base diameter of 9 feet 5 inches. I love these trees.

While culture warriors have been hysterically policing public restrooms, a truly horrific killing of a gay man in Idaho has flown mostly under the radar. And now, as police look for other possible victims, we are seeing a sadly perfect example of the problems raised by the state’s refusal to criminalize discrimination against gays and lesbians.

What are you sort of excited about as summer draws near? While I wait to hear from you, I’ll tell you what I am excited about.

It’s happened again. Time has trickled away like the oil in most of the vintage cars I’ve owned. We are now less than a month away from the 14th annual Spokane Street Music Week.

Making lemons out of lemonade.

Remember the Post Falls-made Leata Cabalero? Columnist Doug Clark found one and he says it’s as ugly as feared.

A website declares Idaho to be the most boring state in the country. Why? The Gem State has a high percentage of married people and children living at home. It's also sparsely populated. Boring, like art, must be in the eye of the beholder.

Robyn Brody’s campaign for the Idaho Supreme Court disputes a finding by the Idaho Secretary of Statethat four donations, totaling $27,000, received from four farm-related businesses exceeded the state Sunshine Law limits because the businesses are related by a single owner.

A veteran riders offers advice for the newbies. It ain’t always pretty.

Larry Krueger wondered how many Slice readers remember Sunday blue laws. Let’s see a show of hands.

Back in May of 2010, The Slice presented a guide for responding to high school graduation announcements arriving in the mail from the teenage children of casual friends and distant relatives. You know, kids you barely knew existed.

So the new plan emerging from Spokane City Hall is to complete the investigation into the firing of Frank Straub by creating a new zone of secrecy for the administration.

It’s hard to be mad about this one.

With four sons, I’ve lost count of the number of Chuck E. Cheese, Wonderland, Laser Quest and bowling birthday parties we’ve hosted. For years I insisted on home birthday bashes, which involved traditional games like pin the tail on the donkey and musical chairs. Those were the kind of birthday parties I attended as a kid. However, hot potato cannot compete with the electric mayhem of video games and fire trucks with lights and sirens.

Former Spokane County prosecutor Don Brockett can now add “author” to his long and impressive resume.

This will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Donald Trump’s factual record – and it will make no dent in the blind passion of Trump Nation – but The Donald was wrong about our region’s economy.