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News >  Spokane

Photo-red viewed through different lens

Ignoring the public’s wishes (as always), Spokane leaders are forging ahead with their revenue-raising scheme to install candid cameras at three of the city’s busiest intersections. Because of this development, today’s column has been given to America’s traffic expert Captain Gridlock, who will answer your photo-red and other transportation questions.
News >  Spokane

Box seats and Bobby … priceless

I blew off work Friday afternoon to watch the Spokane Indians play the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes at Avista Stadium. I know. My lack of work ethic comes as no surprise, least of all to my editors.
News >  Spokane

Logic of lower drinking age makes room spin

So it seems none of our own collegiate leaders has the courage to join the national movement of college administrators and “Girls Gone Wild” producers who’d like to lower the drinking age. Well, I’m not surprised.
News >  Spokane

Amid evil, jury shines moral light

As I write this Wednesday the newsroom is abuzz with the latest on a two-legged monster. A federal jury in Boise just ruled that Joseph Duncan must die for his repugnant and rapacious acts against humanity.
News >  Spokane

Take a drink, hold your nose, mark your ballot

On Friday I finally cracked open my primary ballot and began the painstaking process of selecting which liars I’ll choose to represent me. All politicians lie, although most of them prefer to call it campaigning.
News >  Spokane

The way they treated me should be a crime

Tuesday night was National Night Out, an exciting annual event where neighbors and law enforcers stuff their faces with barbecue chicken and other tasty grub and, oh yeah, talk about crime prevention. Naturally, I had to get involved.
News >  Spokane

Potty products purveyor giving casino royal flush

For the record, I don’t make a habit of wandering into ladies’ lavatories. (OK, there was one embarrassing time at a certain downtown hotel. But that was an accident. Honest. I was in a rush. I wasn’t looking where I was going and ...)
News >  Spokane

The mayor actually wants to see me?

Spokane Mayor Mary Verner summoned me to City Hall Thursday. It was actually the Mayor’s Mouthpiece (aka press flack) who called. She told me her boss wanted to present me with something special during an afternoon meeting of the Urban Decay Committee.