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Doug Clark: Part of me was excited just to hear the maverick billionaire dealmaker while the other part of me was like a hockey fan: You know, just there for the fights and the ejections.

Drop the Buffalo and the fancy flavors.

On the second day of June in 2011, a young man named Walid Al-Soneidar huddled inside his home in the Yemen city of Sanaa as bombs fell and bullets flew. With him were his parents and his sister.

Chief Deputy Idaho Secretary of State Tim Hurst says the Secretary of State’s office will be looking into an apparent attempt to evade campaign finance limits by Idaho Falls businessman Doyle Beck, who gave a series of $1,000 contributions to legislative candidate M.C. “Chick” Heileson from six related companies that Beck owns.

St. Mother’s Day would not immediately supplant the more secular-sounding May occasion. But if we promote it right ...

Tom Wobker, the Bard of Sherman Avenue, left us on April 23, the purported 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. But his poetry will live on through this column and the Huckleberries Online blog.

Here are a few questions for Spokane area dog owners.

Hitchhiking stories have it all: kindness, thievery, academic pursuits.

If you want to believe those enchiladas you seem to enjoy qualify as good, well, everyone is entitled to an opinion. But my snobbery, it’s always there, just below the surface.

Normally I like birds. I am, after all, the chicken lady. But a robin is testing my patience.

It’s not every day someone invites you to go shopping for a silencer for his fancy new handgun. Sometimes my job is just like a field trip.

I’m not ignoring you, I just forgot my password.

Eric Edelstein - aka “Big Ed” - followed his dreams from Gonzaga University to Hollywood.

Joints always show age.

Doug Clark wants to be like Mike - Mike Jackson, that is. A Jackson-sized severance from the City of Spokane Valley would set Doug up nicely in retirement.

Idaho Republican Party Chairman Steve Yates struck an optimistic tone as he announced the state party convention, which is set for June 2-4 at the Idaho Center in Nampa. "This convention will serve to unite and launch the party into the 2016 general election from a position of strength," Yates said. That stands in stark contrast to the 2014 convention, which ended in disarray without setting an agenda or doing any of its scheduled business.

And now, another installment in our ongoing search for the essential nature of Spokane.

The other Paul Turner gets his day in The Slice.

The Slice asked about long-term relationships. Specifically, the question dealt with cars and trucks bought new and never resold. Here are just a few of the answers.