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If today’s column seems littered with superlatives and exclamation marks, you’ll have to pardon my excess. I’m still coming off a literary high.

As we close in on Loud Noise Coming from Next Door season, it’s time to formulate your 2016 policy.

What, you thought he drove a 1982 DeLorean?

Doug Clark stalks Spokane’s rare and endangered Right-Wingosaurus.

One of the fond remembrances at the memorial service in Coeur d’Alene for the late Patty Duke (Anna Pearce) was told by nephew Mike Kennedy.

Idaho’s top state elected officials got into something of a debate over a proposed constitutional amendment lawmakers have approved this year for the November ballot, during last week’s state Land Board meeting.

His desk needs a snooze button.

I simply cannot imagine tolerating the angle of sunlight here without shielding your eyes.

Sniff your way back in time.

Giving directions down memory lane.

Smokey Bear enthusiasts gathered in Coeur d’Alene this week for their semi-annual convention. Doug Clark dropped in.

From spumoni to dumb questions, there are plenty of high fives to go around.

No, the tour won’t include access to that secret stairwell.

Doug Clark: Just when it looked like the long-awaited north/south freeway would actually be finished, the Hillyard Doom Plume surfaces.

We don’t know why he remembers that, either.

So the life of a newspaper reporter is considered the worst among 200 jobs in America again? I disagree.

The first candidate forum for the four rivals facing off to be Idaho’s next Supreme Court justice initially was announced as a face-off between just three of the four, but now all four say they’ll participate.

Another exciting Spokane yard sale season is upon us and, once again, thousands of hopeful sellers will discover that striking it rich is harder than prying Jodi Foster out of a panic room. Buyer: “So what’ll you take for this, um, glossy blue chunk of compressed carbon?”

Diving into quality friendships.