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Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: City pulls plug on summertime fun

Fun’s over, kiddies. Life is hard. The economy sucks. It’s time you brats grew up and started suffering like your stressed-out mothers and fathers. Yep, it’s adios to Spokane’s long, benevolent summertime tradition of free swimming for youth.
News >  Spokane

Fatso video strikes chord years later

History is littered with great artists who were ignored and unappreciated while alive, only to find fame after shedding their mortal coil. And so it is for an orange Spokane cat named Fatso.
News >  Spokane

Cough up swine flu answers (and hurry!)

If you’ve been following the news lately, you know that the American media have come down with a raging case of swine flu fever. The situation is so severe that some of the more feverish cable news channels have actually stopped exploiting missing white teenagers to report exclusively on what few actual cases of swine flu there are.
News >  Spokane

Vinyl collector’s vintage trove needs temporary home

Roger Butler has lost his modest home on Spokane’s South Hill. He is days away from having to get out. But I won’t go into all the bad luck and bad decisions that brought the 69-year-old musician to this point. That ship, as they say, has sailed. And sunk.
News >  Spokane

No spin here: Massive record collection needs a home

Roger Butler has lost his modest home on Spokane’s South Hill. He is days away from having to get out. But I won’t go into all the bad luck and bad decisions that brought the 69-year-old musician to this point. That ship, as they say, has sailed. And sunk.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: To protect and serve themselves

Spokane police agencies have been more scandal-ridden than Perez Hilton’s blog. To help clear the air, I have been asked to turn over today’s column to Cpl. Marvin Whitewash. He will now address your police concerns and hopefully prevent a mob from storming the Public Safety Building with pitchforks like the peasants in that romantic comedy, “Frankenstein.”
News >  Spokane

Dachau liberator ensures we never forget

The day’s bright sunshine was hiding behind a high overcast sky by the time Dee Eberhart arrived at Adolf Hitler’s oldest death factory. Eberhart, a battle-toughened GI from the Yakima area, was a first scout with the U.S. Army’s famed 42nd Rainbow Division. The young soldier had dodged bullets through France and Germany, witnessing enough death and disfigurement to haunt dreams for a lifetime.
News >  Spokane

Visitors bureau needs better angles

The local convention industry is in danger of drying up, and it’s up to me to come to the rescue. Oh, I’d love to believe that the Spokane Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau is up to the job. They all seem like such swell, albeit overly chipper, people.
News >  Spokane

Through acts callous and kind, keepsakes back with family

This is a story about a guilty conscience and a rather clumsy attempt to make amends for a Spokane burglary. What matters most, however, is that Kathleen Sullivan’s loved ones have recovered some of the precious keepsakes they thought had been lost forever.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Just blame our biggest drawback

Hear ye. Hear ye. The Column is now in session, and we have three items on today’s docket. •Item 1 – So suspended Spokane police officer Jay Olsen was acquitted for shooting Shonto Pete in the head after a wild chase through dark city streets two years ago.
Doug Clark
Opinion >  Column

Doug Clark: Scientology has nothing on Clarkonomics

National studies reveal that average Americans know less about money matters than the Octomom knows about family planning. This may explain why the nation is now in an even bigger financial mess than Tom Cruise in “Risky Business.”