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The consensus? The vast majority of responders are annoyed as heck. While nobody objected to friendly greetings – “Any plans for tonight?” sparked widespread irritation.

Toddler Cevanah Williams has cancer, but has been treated using cutting-edge new technology, offering hope for her family.

Another year, another death for Andy Billig’s attempt to shine more light on dark money in state politics. This year, instead of a proposal that drew support in both houses before being scotched by business lobbyists, the Washington DISCLOSE Act was simply bottled up by the Senate majority, never to see the light of day.

Spokane has a slightly more relaxed dress code for casual wear at home.

Doug Clark is on a slow, steady slide to energy inefficiency.

The easiest way to hang on to your youth? Be born on Leap Day.

Jill Chandler began collecting photos and letters from World War II pilots as a teenager. Her collection now numbers some 400 photos and several thousand letters that together are a moving testament to these war-time heroes.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue took his first public bow last weekend after 14 years of anonymously penning little rhymes for Huckleberries and my former Editorial Page column, Hot Potatoes. Now, print Huckleberries has some loose ends to tie up in honoring this gentle man with a talent for wit and rhyme.

With key pieces of education policy still pending in the Legislature even as budgets are being set, some are being set with pieces missing, pending cleanup later. Meanwhile, legislative budget writers fought off an attempt by three southern Idaho lawmakers Friday to kill a public-access easement on a big chunk of private forest land in the Panhandle.

You know, waffles, bacon, omelets, biscuits and honey, strawberries, fresh squeezed orange juice ... the whole schmear.

The Slice was done with autograph stories for the time being.

Has the four-member majority of the Spokane Valley City Council granted itself an exemption to state open meetings law? Are they – as the majority before them was credibly accused of doing – forming unofficial quorums and showing up at public meetings with decisions already made?

It’s that kind of notoriety you don’t want.

I travel to Seattle often and have rather unkindly considered the space between here and there as simply the drive-through counties. But then a few years ago I began noticing and appreciating the beauty of those in-between areas and started paying real attention to what I saw along the way.

Doug Clark applies for a concealed pistol permit.

Shawn Vestal urges the Spokane City Council to share information from a closed executive session, in defiance of a city attorney’s warning that doing so might be illegal.

Check out this baker’s dozen and get back to me.

Choosing a new and hopefully sane police chief has become Spokane’s biggest quest for 2016. Today you can test your knowledge on this complicated subject by taking the following multiple-choice quiz.