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Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: You’ll get a charge out of Reddy’s take

Editor’s note: Still besieged by the dread shingles, Doug Clark has turned today’s column over to that beloved former power company mascot, Reddy Kilowatt. The familiar symbol has graciously agreed to answer all of your questions regarding Avista Corp.’s latest attempt to suck the last dime out of its downtrodden ratepayers.
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Sugar bad for health, good for defense readiness

If you watched “60 Minutes” Sunday night, then you know that sugar has joined the ranks of red meat, coffee, cigarettes and other foods that should be shunned like adulterers in an Amish village. New Food Police studies have found that sugary snacks and drinks share similar health risks with alcoholic beverages like Jim Beam and some of the stronger aftershave lotions.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: No jingles for shingles – it’s just no fun

I made a huge, life-altering decision while shopping at the South Hill Safeway store some months ago. Even weirder, this particular moment of consequence came at the pharmacy window and not my usual bakery outpost where I’m often seen wrestling over whether to take home the glazed or the frosted donuts.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: For some, it’s heritage; for others, horoscope

I took part in Spokane’s St. Patrick’s Day parade Saturday, and boy, am I exhausted. True, it would have been a lot worse if I actually had to walk the parade route out in the cold. Instead I rode shotgun in the heated comfort of Don Lehn’s baby blue 1965 Ford pickup.
News >  Spokane

Readers fill in missing story of Expo souvenir

Time to put a lid on the Mystery of the Expo Percolator. (That actually sounds like a title of one of those old Hardy Boys mysteries that I consumed like a crack addict back in the early reading days of my youth.)
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: 72-year-old runner keeps on winning

I first met Bill Misner 25 years ago when he was preparing for his first 50-mile footrace with a horse named Zeke. We spoke again in 1998 after he (Misner, not Zeke) became the first runner ever to log 10,000 miles in an organized race.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Click heels and repeat: There’s no disgrace like Thoma

One day Spokane Mayor David Condon declares there’s no good way out of the Brad Thoma tar pit. The City Council, he says, must vote to put Thoma back on the police force as a detective and reward the drunk-driving, hit-and-run disgrace to the badge with a quarter million-plus in back pay and lawyer bucks.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Wayward snow toss will cost you

In the latest example of your busybody government at work, Spokane’s City Council has decided to make outlaws out of we citizens who dare toss snow into the streets. Weird. I don’t remember snow fines being promised by any Council candidates during the recent campaign season.
News >  Spokane

GTO-to guy could use your help

On this day of hearts and flowers comes a love story with gold paint and horsepower. It’s the story of Ted Fennen and his 1967 Pontiac GTO.
News >  Spokane

Post-election City Council is politics as usual

Doug’s City Council Diary … 5:40 p.m. – My first visit to the Spokane City Council for 2012 begins outside City Hall. I bump into rookie Councilman Mike Fagan, who is about to set fire to a menthol Marlboro light.