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Doug Clark: Family connection garners a close encounter of the feline kind

Sun., Sept. 7, 2014

COQUITLAM, B.C. – Put yourself in my size twelves. Say a close family member just happened to manage one of the planet’s biggest divas.

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Doug Clark: Maker of tiny Tango aspires to drive invention into fast lane

Thu., Sept. 4, 2014

The Tango, that cute made-in-Spokane electric car, was not necessarily designed for a made-in-Spokane lug like me. At least the two-seater’s back seat wasn’t, anyway.

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Doug Clark: Pigout etiquette anything but proper

Sun., Aug. 31, 2014

Labor Day Weekend is at hand, which means my favorite annual event – Pigout in the Park – is once again in full swing. And I’m not saying this just because my band plays there.

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Doug Clark: Frisbee dog champion lets fur fly in interview

Thu., Aug. 28, 2014

The first thing you learn in journalism school is that the public never gets tired of stories about cuddly animals. Or cuddly cannibals, for that matter.

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Doug Clark: Steve Tucker steps up for ALS – and drags me along

Tue., Aug. 26, 2014

Be wary what you wish for. I’ve heard the cliché a zillion times. We all have.

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Doug Clark: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge a worthy fad

Sun., Aug. 24, 2014

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge caught up with me at high noon Friday next to the big red wagon in Riverfront Park. I took a seat on one of the toy building block sculptures while state Sen. Mike Baumgartner, the guy who challenged me, prepared to douse me with a large orange bucket filled with ice and water he just scooped out of the nearby Spoganges River.

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Doug Clark: Lunacy-based Gaedel Society boasts international reach

Thu., Aug. 21, 2014

If the Nobel Foundation ever gets around to rewarding “inspired lunacy,” I know who deserves to be jetting to Stockholm to pick up that first award. Tom Keefe – the man who gave Spokane (and beyond?) the Eddie Gaedel Society.

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Doug Clark: No jury duty in 45 years? No fair!

Tue., Aug. 19, 2014

People scratch and moan all the time about how screwed up the judicial system is. Judges too soft. Lawyers too slick.

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Doug Clark: Car enthusiast transforms junker to classic chrome

Sun., Aug. 17, 2014

Maybe it comes with my Spokane DNA, but I love car shows – although not in the way you might think. Sure, I’ve logged plenty of time drooling over row after row of gleaming chrome and polished paint.

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Doug Clark: Revisiting Watergate, Richard Nixon’s downfall

Thu., Aug. 14, 2014

Forty years later and Terry Kolemaine still needs to get the Nixon demons out. “I still gloat,” he said with a chuckle. “After all these years I still love to speak of his demise.”

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Doug Clark: Mayor’s budget proposal not quite ready to pitch

Tue., Aug. 12, 2014

So I’m wandering about downtown the other night when this small weird holy man sidles up and hands me a religious tract. Then I look again and realize that, hey, this is no small weird holy man, it’s David Condon, mayor of Spokane.

News >  Spokane

Russ Nobbs stayed true to his hippie roots amid business success

Sun., Aug. 10, 2014

It was the Summer of Love all over again. At least it seemed like it for a few warm hours Saturday evening on the grassy tableau at Spokane’s Grant Park.

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Doug Clark: Election write-in Mr. Chicken has major ‘IT’ factor

Thu., Aug. 7, 2014

The prelude is over. Once again, the primary election has performed its time-tested purpose of separating the lax from the lackadaisical. Speaking of the 5th District Congressional race …

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Doug Clark: ‘Hillyard Hammer’ throws punches, punch lines with flair

Sun., Aug. 3, 2014

A couple of truck backfires or something pyrotechnic ka-boomed not far from Market Street and Broad Avenue, the staging area for Saturday’s Hillyard Festival Hi-Jinx Parade. As the noise faded, the following two things happened almost simultaneously:

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Doug Clark: Hey, Harry, our new hotel will be just grand, thanks

Thu., July 31, 2014

What has Harry Sladich been smoking? I felt compelled to ask after digesting his recent oddly timed and snarky remarks about the Grand Hotel Spokane that Walt Worthy is constructing in the heart of downtown’s convention district.

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Doug Clark: ‘Wheels 4 Meals’ shows Etzel’s Edsel has heart

Tue., July 29, 2014

Q – What do you call a two-time loser? A – A guy driving an Edsel with a Nixon sticker on the bumper.

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Doug Clark: STA seat culprit proves to be battery acid

Sun., July 27, 2014

What do you give the guy who took a bad acid trip? I couldn’t wait to find out.

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Doug Clark: Here’s how Spokane can squeeze most pennies from parkers

Thu., July 24, 2014

More parking meters going up? I had no idea we were short on parking meters.

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Doug Clark: Conserve our tax dollars, not our trees

Tue., July 22, 2014

I got a case of government heartburn when the Spokane City Council voted 6-0 Monday night to start buying only recycled paper. Especially since doing so will cost nearly six grand more a year than the city pays now for politically incorrect old-paper paper.

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Doug Clark: Spokane’s ‘LaBoata’ gets makeover after five years

Sun., July 20, 2014

Spokane’s famed boat car couldn’t get any cooler. That’s what I figured, anyway.

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Doug Clark: Having a hot time in Spokane this summer, or is it just a shade slow?

Thu., July 17, 2014

Is your summer raging like a “Planet of the Apes” sequel? Or does it suck more than the Garbage Goat?

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Doug Clark: From my first ride, it’s all Uber now

Tue., July 15, 2014

I saw the light one clear dark night during my recent vacation to that City by the Bay. The headlights, actually.

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Doug Clark: Not bitten by World Cup fever, an inspiration nonetheless

Thu., June 26, 2014

If you’re like me, you’d rather watch water evaporate than World Cup soccer. Which means that all I know about what’s going on in the world of the cup is that some player from Uruguay bit an Italian dude during a match the other day.

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Doug Clark: Hubbub over hunk’s mug shot proves the Internet is crazy

Tue., June 24, 2014

There was a time when the fabulous faces of tomorrow were discovered in coffee shops. Now, thanks to the Internet, the recipe for fame is to be a punk and get booked into jail.

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Doug Clark: STA comes clean on pants-eating bus seat

Sun., June 22, 2014

When we last left big Bill McChristian, the 82-year-old Korean War vet had invited me into his downtown apartment to show me the melon-size holes in his jeans and underwear. The damage, he claimed, was caused by some mystery liquid that was on the seat of the Spokane bus that took him to the VA hospital on May 27. McChristian volunteers there twice a week.