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We secretly love spending huge amounts of money on gasoline for that ginormous truck.

Readers shared stories about strangers at the door late at night.

What goes through your mind when an acquaintance wanting to try someplace new asks you to recommend a Spokane area restaurant?

There is something about a teenage girl talking about birth control that drives certain kind of thinkers straight out of the underbrush and into the open, where they reveal more clearly than usual just whose business they think that girl’s private life is.

Readers have all the answers

The gleaming walnut piano was the centerpiece of my mother Carol’s living room and, until her death last April at age 92, one of the big joys of her long life. Which is why my older brother Dave and I agonized before finally deciding to let it go in an estate sale after selling the Clark family homestead in late December.

It is only natural that the long, strange trip that has unfolded over the past several years at the Ridpath Hotel would continue to get longer and stranger. Two potential buyers, each with much different designs for the building, have been vying in a Nevada bankruptcy court for ownership of a key piece of the long-closed downtown hotel – the tower floors with most of the hotel rooms.

Bob Gregson didn’t grow up here. But his parents, Rogers High grads, did. So when young Bob would leave a light on unnecessarily, they would admonish him with a Lilac City classic.

Nothing says generalizations can’t be true

Doug doesn’t know if he’d be able to buy Buick’s new prototype car, the Avista, if it ever goes into production.

The Idaho Republican Party’s central committee, at its winter meeting, voted to do away with a 2011 party rule that required all candidates to vow compliance with every plank of the party platform.

Kids who delivered newspapers and then went door-to-door to collect payments every month learned a lot about adults and money.

In the city known as tree city USA, it's no longer safe to be a tree. A dozen or so more trees that fronted North Idaho Museum were leveled last week in the name of flood prevention. They join hundreds of trees toppled along waterfront under edict by the Army Corps of Engineers and even some knocked over by Mother Nature during Wind Storm 2015.

“I had a good laugh reading about Barbara Greer’s baggage experience,” wrote Joyce Momb. “It reminded me of the first time my husband and I visited Hawaii. When the luggage belt started, I saw a deplorable suitcase coming out, bent in half with several pieces of underwear hanging out. I told my husband, I feel sorry for the owner of that bag. When the bag got closer to us, I realized, it was MY bag!”

Glen Kauffman offered a detailed, thoughtful answer to the question about how a smartphone has changed her life.

Recent events within the Spokane Police Department demand more urgency to rebuild and strengthen oversight.

WSU football brings out the cat in all of us.

Doug Clark goes from being a Powerball nonbeliever to a disciple in four easy steps.

It was just a few weeks ago that I first cracked open some fresh-from-the-hen eggs for Sunday morning breakfast. They were medium-sized eggs from Miss Chicken’s 2015 group of babies, who were just beginning to lay.