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News >  Spokane

Earth Day drive leads to environmental hazard

Monday was Earth Day, the day we all try to show our friends and neighbors just how much more we care about saving the planet than they do. A good way to do this, by the way, is to work certain ecological words like “chlorofluorocarbons” or “Al Gore” into your casual conversation, such as …
News >  Spokane

Clark: Bunny leads us down disappointing rabbit hole

I was sorry to hear that after a 32-year run, the Easter Bunny won’t be hiding any plastic eggs filled with tooth-rotting candy this weekend at Riverfront Park. Apparently there was a lack of a sponsor or a problem with the Easter Bunny’s agent.
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Snakes alive, it’s St. Patrick!

Just when I thought Spokane was running out of characters, an email arrived from a guy claiming to be St. Patrick. And not only that. But St. Patrick was willing to grant me an exclusive interview, and not, as I first suspected, at a mental health facility.
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Craig fund stimulates reader fun

Last week I plucked shamelessly at my readers’ heartstrings. I asked all of you to dig deep into your sofa cushions and pull out a dime that you could mail me to benefit ex-Sen. Larry Craig’s ongoing courtroom commode woes.
News >  Spokane

Zags are even bigger champions off the court

March Madness. That springy time of year when cats and basketball fans go into simultaneous heat with yowling abandon. One of them, in fact, was raising hell outside my bathroom window just the other night.
News >  Spokane

Real story of ‘Argo’ in what reporters didn’t say

Newly crowned best picture “Argo” is about a fake science fiction movie that was created as a ruse to bring home six American diplomats who were hiding out during the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran. But after watching “Argo” over the weekend, I’m thinking the finished product is nearly as fanciful as the film that was never meant to be made.
News >  Spokane

Common-sense bill on police firings too smart for Olympia

Attention, Citizens! Cpl. Clark returns to once again address your concerns about cops, courts and crime. Q – Hey, Cpl. Clark, what’s the rumpus about some state senator in Olympia attacking Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich’s character?
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: A forum for dopey opinions

DOUG’S DOPE DIARY … Tuesday, 5:50 p.m. – On my way to tonight’s big pot forum at the Spokane Convention Center. I know I’m headed in the right direction because I’m following a young guy who is so into weed that he has “Marijuana” festooned on the back of his bright blue nylon jacket.
News >  Spokane

Clark: The face on U.S. penny keeps common sense at bay

Canada minted its final penny the other day and embarked on a program to gradually round up and melt down the 82 million kg of coppery coins in circulation. As a public school-educated American, kilograms, mammograms and all the other metric mysteries are Greek to me, although it does sound like a lot.
News >  Idaho

Clark: Reading some heavy lifting might toughen kids up

John Goedde can try to laugh it off all he wants. But his idea to make Idaho high schoolers read Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” is a keeper. I’ll go Goedde one better. Every high school kid in America should have to read this tome in a dark room by candlelight and then pass a test on it in order to graduate.