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Doug Clark

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News >  Spokane

Judicial sense might have averted Tuesday bloodshed

Count me in as a believer in mercy and charity and all those other virtues preachers yak about on Sunday mornings. But when it comes to the serious work of our courts, compassion without common sense is a catastrophe waiting to happen.
News >  Spokane

Sun shines on Street Music opener

Day one of our 10th annual Spokane Street Music Week had it all: warm weather, about 50 performers and gobs of generous donors to help put us on the road to reaching our goal of a record $10,000 in donations to Second Harvest food bank. The event continues all week during the noon hours on the downtown sidewalks of Spokane. Come on down or check us out at our website, www.streetmusicweek.com.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Sleep deprivation affects all of us

A shocking national study last April revealed that 41million American workers suffer from a lack of sleep. Nobody paid attention to this shocking study, however, due to all the other shocking studies warning that Americans (a) are fatter than pregnant walruses (b) eat junk foods filled with dead bugs and rat poison and (c) can get cancer by going outside for more than a minute.
News >  Spokane

Professor’s ‘Motel’ mystery needs you to solve it

I don’t want to brag, but the only time college professors ever contact me is to insult my grammar or scold me for lowering the bar of general discourse. So imagine my surprise when Larry Cebula, an associate history professor at my alma mater, Eastern Washington University, sent me an email seeking my wisdom.
News >  Spokane

Clark: City ordinance shows lack of sound thinking

I’d like to reassure everyone that our upcoming 10th annual Spokane Street Music Week will go on as planned despite recent meddling with the municipal noise ordinance by overzealous City Council members. If, however, anyone finds our benefit for the food bank to be too joyously rambunctious, we can easily change our event to Spokane Meek Music Week, where all performers will make like the little guy in the Penn & Teller act.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Many wrongs, one big right in Zehm case

Repentance is a concept normally relegated to cathedrals, chapels and bar stools just before closing time. But on Tuesday afternoon, a downtown mediation court was the sanctuary where the city of Spokane made amends to the family of the late Otto Zehm for civic sins committed.
News >  Spokane

Bug Samaritan takes a stand

Note: An incomplete version of Doug Clark’s column appeared in print on May 10; the full text is reprinted below. Message to the Washington Department of Agriculture:
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Capt. Kirk Burger an out-of-this-world creation

OTIS ORCHARDS – The nation may be teetering on the cutlet of another mad cow panic, but the news hasn’t affected James T. Kirk. On Wednesday, the transplanted Scotsman (who, surprisingly enough, was NOT named in honor of that mythical Starfleet commander of “Star Trek” fame) sat down at the head of a table inside the landmark Otis Grill, where he attempted to consume a burger big enough to be orbiting Neptune.
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: A little more talk and a lot less action

There has been a lot of finger wagging about the Spokane City Council devoting its Monday night meeting to a public outpouring over the state’s new gay marriage law. Some of my co-conspirators in the media argue that council members should stick to topics that are within the scope of their control.