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Doug Clark

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News >  Spokane

Basically, you’re on your own, weather or not

Once again, global warming has been a complete bust and winter is already beginning to afflict our Windblown Empire in the form of ice, slush and those annoying flakes. Speaking of city officials, Spokane is about to become more prepared than ever for winter just as soon as council members pass my realistic redraft of the their current Snow Removal Plan.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Condon, put your pull where your rhetoric was

We’re still weeks away from that familiar moment when Spokane’s next one-term mayor will slide behind the desk in that spiffy City Hall office with a view. Although quite frankly, if Mary Verner keeps refusing to concede last Tuesday’s election, David Condon may have to call for an eviction.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Thank Mayor Bair for the one-term curse

Now comes that post-election moment for rationally minded pundits to scientifically pick apart how David Condon, a political upstart, made up a Goliath-size disadvantage to knock off a sitting Spokane mayor Tuesday night. Remember the August primary?
News >  Spokane

Clark: To those who disgraced the law they swore to uphold

“Members of the Spokane Police Department will so conduct their public and private lives that they exemplify the high standards of integrity, trust, and morality demanded of a member of the Spokane Police Department.” –  Canon Four of the Spokane Police Department Policy Manual Code of Ethics Might I suggest some much-needed reading?
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Tacoma payoff odorless

I broke into a cold chill the other day at the sight of a large, unopened and unexplained package that someone had placed on my desk in the newsroom. This makes me look like a complete sissy, I know. But in my defense there was something utterly scarifying about this box.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Holmes sets sterling example

When Gordon Holmes takes the podium tonight in the Davenport Hotel’s swank Isabella Ballroom, it’s a given the subject of precious metals will come up. Holmes, after all, is the featured banquet speaker for the annual Silver Summit. This year’s two-day confab will unite 700 investors, explorers, vendors, silver producers and metals aficionados.

Doug Clark: Holmes a man of fine mettle

When Gordon Holmes takes the podium Thursday night in the Davenport Hotel’s swank Isabella Ballroom, it’s a given the subject of precious metals will come up. Holmes, after all, is the featured banquet speaker for the annual Silver Summit. This year’s two-day confab will unite 700 investors, explorers, vendors, silver producers and metals aficionados. But here’s the thing about Holmes.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Venue change is slap to Spokane jurors

The verdict is in. Anyone desiring to watch the upcoming federal trial of Karl Thompson Jr. – the Spokane cop whose deadly encounter with Otto Zehm earned him an excessive force charge – must fill up the tank and travel 200 miles to Yakima. Apparently we wags of the local media are to blame for potentially tainting the jury pool with our blather.
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: My art appreciation isn’t happening fast enough

In my latest pathetic attempt to strike it rich, I took the fascinating old oil painting that had been gathering dust in my basement to the fairgrounds for appraisal by art experts. First, however, I had to make sure my art was completely bundled in a thick tablecloth before leaving the house last Saturday.
News >  Spokane

Former hack offers view of Spokane from cab window

It was pretty clear from the get-go that Rocky Wilson was never destined to make the Spokane Cab Driving Hall of Fame, if there is such a thing. Looking back, he should have taken what happened on his first night of training as an omen.