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Charles Apple

Charles Apple

Current Position: designer editor

Charles Apple joined The Spokesman-Review in 2019 as a design editor. He designs weekly Further Review pages that cover subjects such as the history of comics, William Shatner, Tiger Woods, autism spectrum disorder and even how to get your Spokesman-Review aboard the International Space Station. Apple has worked for papers across the nation, large and small. He is considered an informational graphics guru, winning countless international awards and his work consulting and training newsrooms around the world.

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A Curling Primer

Curling has been around since 16th-Century Scotland — although many Americans weren’t familiar with it until it reappeared in the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, in 1998. The 2020 USA Curling Nationals will be held beginning Saturday at Eastern Washington University.
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A History of Newspaper Puzzles

Puzzles are a relatively recent addition to daily newspapers. The first crossword puzzle appeared in Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World only 106 years ago. Here’s a look at how your favorite pastime developed over the years:
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Your Guide to the 2020 Primaries

It might seem like the 2020 campaign has been under- way for months, now. In fact, Republicans in Hawaii assigned their convention delegates in December. Here’s what you need to know about primary season:
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Everything You Need to Know About Impeachment

The first and most important thing to know: “impeachment” is like an indictment. It’s a finding that a crime may have been committed. After an official has been impeached, he or she faces a trial in the Senate. Only a two-thirds vote in the Senate will remove that official from office.
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The Life and Times of Steve Gleason and ALS

Over the last quarter-century, Steve Gleason went from being a student at Gonzaga Prep to a standout football star at Washington State, a professional football player for the New Orleans Saints, a symbol of that city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina and, now, a beacon for patients with ALS. A look at the life of Gleason, who received a Congressional Gold Medal in Washington, D.C., Wednesday.
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WSU - A Half-Century of Nursing

Washington State’s College of Nursing is celebrating its 50th birthday this year. The program has grown from a class of 37 in 1969 to more than 650 undergraduates on six campuses across the state.
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Midnite Mine - Radioactive Uranium Mine

In the midst of this gorgeous natural paradise we call the Inland Empire is a ticking time bomb — a radioactive Superfund site that has possibly poisoned hundreds of local residents and won’t be cleared of danger — to the federal government’s standards, at least — for another half-decade.
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Parallel Paths - Eric “Big Ed” Edelstein Acting Career and the Zags

Hollywood actor Eric “Big Ed” Edelstein will make a return appearance to Spokane on Monday when he co-hosts an event to help kick off Gonzaga’s 2019-2020 basketball season and to commemorate how the school’s international recruiting efforts have been instrumental in building the Zags into one of college basketball’s elite programs.
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Ben Stuckart and Nadine Woodward on the issues

The Spokesman-Review asked Ben Stuckart and Nadine Woodward, Spokane’s candidates for mayor, a series of questions to learn their positions on important issues that may not make it to a debate stage or candidate profile. Their answers have been edited and paraphrased for brevity. Quotes are directly from their responses.
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Football Concussions

It’s that time of year again: The increasing crispness of the fall air, the marching bands, cheerleaders and the renewal of football rivalries. All too often, however, this is also the time of year a lot of young people begin suffering from traumatic head injuries due to collisions on the field — especially a football field. Here’s what you need to know about high schoolers and sports head injuries.
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1969: a year that shaped history

Momentous events. Artistic or technical achievements. Cultural touchstones. Moments of pain or delight. Call them what you will, the Summer of 1969 — in fact, the whole year — was full of them.
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The most-loved comics in history: a timeline

Civilizations come and go. Politicians come and go. Poets and authors and TV actors come and go. Comic strips come and go, too. The biggest difference between them and the others, perhaps: Comic strips are fondly remembered.