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Spin Control: Is it time for Boomers to pass the presidential torch?

Sat., Sept. 3, 2022

As painful as it is for a Baby Boomer to acknowledge, it probably time for the next president to come from a younger generation.

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100 years ago in Spokane: A stopped watch was the only clue in a man’s apparent falling death from the Monroe Street Bridge

Sat., Sept. 3, 2022

Two boys were fishing the Spokane River when they made a macabre discovery while scrambling over some rocks.

Opinion > Guest Opinion

Edward Francis Meagher: VA must stand down it’s electronic health record modernization program

Sat., Sept. 3, 2022

By Edward Francis Meagher

Opinion > Syndicated columns

Gary Shilling: Wall Street is in denial over the economy

Sat., Sept. 3, 2022

We know that the U.S. economy is currently weak, but the real economy is really weak, and the Federal Reserve’s commitment to precipitate a recession to curb high inflation will make this reality obvious to seemingly oblivious investors.

Opinion > Letters

Letters for Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 8, 2022

Breach the lower four Snake River dams

Opinion > Column

Shawn Vestal: Stuck in the two-step, McMorris Rodgers props up false election doubts

Fri., Sept. 2, 2022

It was the perfect McMorris Rodgers two-step: Reject the craziest Trump line, then slide right back toward embracing it.

Opinion > Column

100 years ago in Spokane: The fair looked a lot different in 1922, but some things haven’t really changed in a century

Fri., Sept. 2, 2022

The Spokane Interstate Fair and Livestock Show was about to get underway, and it featured a few events in 1922 that have not survived into 2022.

Opinion > Column

Dear Kiantha: Anxious parents sending kids back to school

Fri., Sept. 2, 2022

Dear Kiantha,

Opinion > Letters

Letters for Friday, Sept. 2, 2022

UPDATED: Fri., Sept. 2, 2022

Sobriety not required for new homeless shelter

Opinion > Column

Front Porch: Your quirks are much quirkier than mine

Thu., Sept. 1, 2022

At a recent lunch with my friend Sarah Bain, she raised her eyebrows when our server brought water to our table and I asked for a straw.

Opinion > Column

100 years ago in Spokane: Swift and severe justice was delivered after the latest booze raid, and a county prosecutor candidate refused to condemn the KKK

Thu., Sept. 1, 2022

Every deputy in the Spokane County sheriff’s office took part in a series of nighttime booze raids targeting 30 hotels, pool halls and “soft drink stands.” More than 40 suspects were in custody.

Opinion > Letters

Letters for Sept. 1, 2022

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 1, 2022

Smiley is out of touch

Opinion > Cartoons

Lisa Benson cartoon

Thu., Sept. 1, 2022

Opinion > Column

Sue Lani Madsen: Time for a new age of politics

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 15, 2022

There are two manifestations of Trump Derangement Syndrome – those who insist Trump couldn’t possibly have won in 2016 and it portended the end of the world as we know it, and those who insisted Trump couldn’t possibly have lost in 2020 and only he can save the republic.

Opinion > Column

Shawn Vestal: Voters will have a say in whether to create independent city attorney

Wed., Aug. 31, 2022

A few weeks back, at a City Council meeting dominated by public comment about an abortion-related resolution, a less heated but important matter went largely unnoticed.