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News >  Spokane

Clark: That’s one solution to bloated government

I couldn’t be more impressed by the $2.8 million upgrade being planned for Spokane Indians Stadium* by the county. (* I truly hate using that sterile, commercialized A-word when referring to the name of our beloved ball field.)
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Ryan’s Lincoln is red hot

Attention Spokane car lovers. The Hot Rod Lincoln, star of the world’s best car song, goes on the block Saturday afternoon at the big Barrett-Jackson car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. (The event will be televised on the Speed Channel, so check your listings.)
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Trust zapped by Operation Lips-Zipped

For the record, I have no interest in the list of individuals whose credit card charges were on file at any of the eight supposed houses of happy endings that were raided last summer by a police task force with apparently nothing better to do. I’m an open-minded cynic.
News >  Marijuana

Clark: State gets weeds of advice

Last November’s passage of High-502, the initiative legalizing marijuana for hacky sack and other recreational use, has motivated many Washington residents to give the state their cannabis crop suggestions. And just in time.
News >  Spokane

A name that should only be used in an obit

One of the regrettable realities about life in the Information Age is how quickly the outrage of the moment becomes a forgotten relic of the past. Maybe we’re so bombarded by the controversies and “nontroversies” of the here-and-now that the space in our brains simply gets too filled up to keep track of anything that happened much past last week’s calamity.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Names for Apple’s bar hip, hideous

With the world scheduled to end sometime on Friday, I thought it would be a good idea to tie up some loose ends, like helping Bob Apple choose the right name for the new South Hill sports bar that he plans to open on Super Bowl Sunday. I know what you’re thinking.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Ascension to rock star status slow, deserved

His name looms high on the cover of the latest Slash album as well as in the songwriting credits. When he isn’t touring and recording with the former Guns N’ Roses guitarist, he’s doing the same for Alter Bridge – the band guitar slinger Mark Tremonti formed after the megagroup Creed imploded.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Gas, oil, air: check. Exorcist: Not yet

I’ll be first to concede that I have the understanding of a frozen pot pie when it comes to automobile maintenance or the vagaries of the infernal combustion engine. I’ve never installed a spark plug, a Rotary cap or even a muffler bearing.
News >  Spokane

Clark: The speech the Eagles must hear

(COLUMNIST’S NOTE: Sadly, a restraining order for over-exuberance still prevents me from getting within field goal range of the Eagles locker room. Therefore I must use today’s column to deliver the pregame pep talk I hoped to give Saturday to the Eastern Washington University football team.) Men ...
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: High-tech gadget guy a perfect ‘prepper’

From an impenetrable gate to under-mattress safes, John Adrain’s cliff-side Spokane County manor (don’t ask where it is or I’ll have to kill you) is a survivalist showcase worthy of national TV. No kidding. Adrain and his amazing air-filtered abode will be featured on “Doomsday Preppers” next Tuesday night on the National Geographic channel.