Opinion

If Donald Trump wins the election, the main reason will surely be that a majority of voters believe that America’s economy is in bad shape. And no matter how much you may dread a second Trump administration, electoral defeat for an incumbent who is seen as presiding over a bad economy is, at least in one sense, politics as usual.

Working residents must miss public meetings

Ochoa-Bruck doesn’t give fair chances

When I entered the world of professional journalism more than four decades ago, I quickly discovered that certain colleagues felt so strongly about the mere appearance of political bias that they abstained from voting. This is not true of most reporters, but you can still find some who choose not to affiliate with a political party nor even to cast a ballot. They liken it to umpires calling ...

If I’d pictured Donald Trump’s first criminal trial a few years ago, I’d have imagined the biggest, splashiest story in the world. Instead, as we lurch toward a verdict that could brand the presumptive Republican nominee a felon and possibly even send him to prison, a strange sense of anticlimax hangs over the whole affair.

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Blocking off seating on Monroe Street bridge

Proposals to fluoridate Spokane’s water supply have simmered for decades, but the debate may have finally cooled permanently. Not because of likelihood of a fourth public vote failing just like the first three rejections. Not because of the high cost to install, operate and maintain a system to inject fluorosilicic acid into Spokane’s eight well stations.

At last, Congress has produced a national data privacy bill, the American Privacy Rights Act. As the owners of a Spokane-based software firm and small business marketing agency, we see bill as a step in the right direction. We’ve advocated for a national privacy law for several years, and even recently met with Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., to express our opinion. Ideally, such legislation would offer consumers meaningful privacy protection and small businesses clear, comprehensive rules to help them thrive in today’s digital economy.

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