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Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: A la Tiger, I’m moved to my own fessing up

If there’s one thing we celebrities can take away from Tiger Woods’ public statement Friday, it’s that publicly apologizing for our past peccadilloes is a swell way to keep basking in the limelight. (Hey, if I’m so wrong, then why are so many big names apologizing all the time?)
News >  Spokane

Chief Anne, we hardly knew ye

It’s official. Anne Kirkpatrick is attempting to take a wedge shot out of this law enforcement sand trap we call the SPD. True, I urged her to flee back in 2006, when she was applying for the job of Spokane’s top cop.
News >  Spokane

Life, limb intact, but reputation …

I gained some real insight into humanity while standing statue-still inside the so-called Globe of Thunder on Friday night. Now I know why public executions used to be so popular.
News >  Spokane

A costume may ease fear of ‘Thunder’

It seemed like a hilarious idea way back in January. Steve Cody asked if I’d like to participate in the “Globe of Thunder” at his annual Inland Northwest Motorcycle Show and Sale.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: In this fight, leaders take no prisoners

Seems like every bureaucrat in the region has come down with a gibbering case of Hoosegow Fever. Spokane city leaders, Spokane County commissioners, police officials, current one-term mayors. … They’re all scrambling to solve our jailhouse overload crisis.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: We’ll miss Davenport’s ‘curator’

Pardon me. But have you bozos over at the Davenport Hotel lost your (insert your favorite expletive) minds? I’m still pinching myself in disbelief over the local news shocker of the week: Tom McArthur lost his job as the Davenport’s communications director.
News >  Spokane

Yes they can can: Spokane couple more than halfway to crushing goal

They don’t call us SpoCan for nothing. Especially after all the worldwide attention Andrea Parrish and Peter Geyer have received. I told you about Spokane’s can-do couple last week. Remember? They’re the crazy kids trying to fund a July wedding with proceeds from recycling 400,000 cans.
News >  Spokane

Clarnak’s sure-pick predictions for 2010

Sit back and prepare to be amazed. Clarnak the Magnanimous returns today in his sequined turban and bejeweled loincloth to mystify you with his guaranteed predictions for the coming New Year.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Breathalyzer Brad offers wobbly defense

Another season of peace, love and excruciatingly inconvenient gift-return lines has passed, and it’s time for me to get back to vivisecting the bah-humbug realities of life. And nothing curdles the nog like the latest antics of Spokane’s poster boy for brad driving.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Pine Lodge inmates just want to stay there

’Tis the season for wishes and dreams, of course. But the letters I received from three women last week didn’t contain any conventional holiday hopes. All they want for Christmas is to spare Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women from the governor’s budget ax.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Test your boondoggle detection

Hello and thanks for playing today’s quiz, “Know Your Boondoggle!” This is a fun way to test your knowledge of Spokane Raceway Park. You know, that racetrack out in Airway Heights, the one that county Commissioners Todd Mielke and Mark Richard bought with $4.3 million of public money in 2008.