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Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Under proposed ‘bill of rights,’ envision beautiful bedlam

The question- and-answer format is being used more and more here at the ol’ S-R (“Shrinking- Review”) as a way to replace that outmoded, space- and-time- consuming process of actual writing and reporting. So, being the good soldier that I am, I will use the Q-and-A today to dissect a controversial and complex topic.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: News as hard to escape as a speeding citation

Returning from vacation is always such an emotionally traumatic time. If President Barack Obama were smart, he’d scratch all that Cash for Clunkers nonsense and instead focus on a federal program that grants every worker a Vacational Loafing Transition.
News >  Spokane

Music week’s crescendo outstanding

I had major doubts Monday. I didn’t think the seventh annual Spokane Street Music Week could possibly live up to 2008, which collected a record $3,800 for the food bank. Bum weather kept sidewalk traffic sparse during the Monday noon hour. We ended our cold, rainy stand with numb fingers and just $208 in our red buckets.
News >  Spokane

Guest vocalists turn up heat for Street Music Week

Spokane Street Music Week kicked off Monday to terrific weather if you are a salamander – or Seattle. Actually, I knew we were in for a drippy Monday morning because all weekend the weather people had been predicting rain showers for late Monday afternoon.
News >  Spokane

Then and now such worlds apart

It’s been a grave new world ever since the economy went down like a slaughterhouse steer. Pay cuts. Depression. Sudden fits of uncontrollable wailing …
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Shrinkage humor falls short for some

k. Q: Wow. Because of the paper’s tasty new bite-size edition, I see that you couldn’t quite finish the last word – “work” – in your Tuesday column, in which the “Omdougsman” answered questions about changes at The Spokesman-Review.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Slim paper no sweat to Omdougsm

The city of Spokane is going through the charade of hiring an ombudsman who will pretend to keep an eye on the cops. Fortunately for you readers, The Spokesman- Review is already blessed with a self-important overseer.
News >  Spokane

Police overseer job comes with built-in blinders

Spokane’s attempt to hire our first police ombudsman has suffered a horrible setback. No, I don’t mean that only two people bothered to show up at the City Council chambers Friday to take a gander at the ombudsman finalists.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Saving money and brain cells: Now that’s efficient

Proving that they’re gol-darned serious about saving our tax dollars, Spokane City Council members voted Tuesday night to hire a new efficiency expert. And they’re going pay this person about $120,000 a year (in wages and benefits) until he or she comes up with some really terrific ways to save money.
News >  Spokane

Wonder where I got this grade-school mindset?

We dignitaries who ascend into the stratosphere of self-importance occasionally are called upon to deliver a lofty speech at a place of higher learning. President Barack Obama, for example, recently made an appearance at the University of Notre Dame.