Opinion

A symbol of pride in America

Spokane Valley leadership silent on church vandalism

By Pat McCarthy

Time’s right for SCOTUS reform

Last week, a 15-year-old Black girl named Janiya Duffie went missing in Georgia. She was last spotted on a street named Tranquility Loop in the town of Lovejoy on July 19. She was wearing blue shorts and a red jacket. She is 5-foot-7; she weighs about 140 pounds. If you know anything of her disappearance or whereabouts, the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office is waiting for your call.

Querida Kiantha,

Unkept promises in Latah Creek infrastructure

Cluster munitions should be banned

This summer’s two biggest entertainment phenomena, the movie “Barbie” and Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, have a lot in common. Both feature conventionally gorgeous blond women who alternately revel in mainstream femininity and chafe at its limitations, enacting an ambivalence shared by many of their fans. Both, beneath their slick, exuberant pop surfaces, tell female coming-of-age stories marked by existential crises and bitter confrontations with sexism. (The third song on Swift’s set list is “The Man,” whose refrain is, “I’m so sick of running as fast as I can/ wondering if I’d get there quicker/ if I was a man.”) And both have become juggernauts.

Nobody wants to be Uvalde. It’s a refrain repeated many times in the nearly year of planning leading to the Screaming Eagles Active Assailant Exercise on the K-12 school campus in Reardan.

Not responding to intolerance embraces intolerance