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Doug Clark: His latest altruistic endeavor is taking the $90,000 job flacking for city parks

Wed., Dec. 9, 2015

With City Hall mired in police and political scandal, Doug Clark is ready to help by graciously accepting the $90,000 PR job being advertised at the parks department.

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Doug Clark: Aspiring mug club members remind us what made this country great

Mon., Dec. 7, 2015

Pioneer toughness was on display as bar patrons lined up in the cold, hoping to be added to the Lantern Tap House’s mug club.

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Doug Clark: Tiny houses hold big promise for homelessness

Sun., Dec. 6, 2015

Ian Robertson wants to use the tiny house movement to address homelessness.

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Doug Clark: Jail guards should be lauded for doing the dirty work

Wed., Dec. 2, 2015

There are heroes like the utility linemen who labored in freezing temperatures to get our power back on. Then there are those whose good works are mostly unacknowledged.

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Doug Clark: ‘Boy mayor’ no longer seems right

Mon., Nov. 30, 2015

This is a fine way for Spokane’s first two-term mayor in forever to start.

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Doug Clark: We need more people like Bill Church

Thu., Nov. 26, 2015

Portrait of a thankful man. Eighty-year-old Bill Church sits in a straight-backed chair parked close to the flickering gold glow of his gas fireplace, the only source of heat in his dark and powerless Spokane Valley brick rancher.

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Doug Clark: Professor Pilgrim says skip the cold cuts this Thanksgiving

Mon., Nov. 23, 2015

Professor Pilgrim offers plucky advice and a “stronger” windstorm slogan

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Doug Clark: Young man’s drive behind West End Lofts project

Sun., Nov. 22, 2015

Daniel Sanchez is busily turning two three-story 1908 buildings, the Jefferson and its next-door neighbor, the Norman Hotel, into cool urban living spaces and boutique retail shops that will enhance the revitalization of West First Avenue.

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Doug Clark: Windstorm transformed Spokane into post-apocalyptic maze

Wed., Nov. 18, 2015

We were in a video game without knowing the rules. That’s what driving around Spokane’s wind-torn South Hill felt like Tuesday night when my son-in-law, Shane Berry, and I ventured out to check on our properties.

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Clarksville: Statuary farm is Way Out

Sun., Nov. 15, 2015

Grinning alligators. Flying saucers. Pigs and sheep. Wrought iron fencing. Dinosaurs. Elaborate metal conservatories …

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Statuary farm is Way Out

Sun., Nov. 15, 2015

Grinning alligators. Flying saucers. Pigs and sheep. Wrought iron fencing. Dinosaurs. Elaborate metal conservatories …

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Doug Clark: Take this quiz to test your winter-readiness

Wed., Nov. 11, 2015

Doug Clark tests your winter readiness with a quiz.

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Doug Clark: Widow finds humor, comfort in DOT’s toll bill snafu

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 9, 2015

Jack Roberts’ wife is sure he didn’t rack up a Good to Go toll bill in Western Washington.

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Doug Clark: Spokane couple test survival skills in new reality show

Sun., Nov. 8, 2015

A Spokane husband and wife recently attempted to survive three weeks in southern Mexico as contestants on a new show, “Men Women Wild.”

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Doug Clark: One-term curse has ended, but Spokane politics won’t let me down

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 4, 2015

Despite the fact that the Curse of the One-Term Mayor ended on Election Night, Doug doesn’t anticipate any shortage of material to write about in the next four years.

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Doug Clark: Want to join me on Election Night to potentially witness history being made?

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 2, 2015

Doug Clark is looking for one or two political junkies to join him on the Clark Pundit Posse on Election Night.

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Doug Clark: Spookane has plenty of local notables to put the scare into Halloween

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 28, 2015

We’ve almost made it to Fright Night when all the ghouls come out to feed and drink and scare us with their infernal caterwauling.

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Doug Clark: My ‘Extra Extra’ ballot will help clear things up for voters

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 26, 2015

Ballots for the Nov. 3 election arrived in my mailbox the other day and it looks like things are even more of a cluster than usual.

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Doug Clark: The livin’ is easy under Avista’s new streetlights

Sun., Oct. 25, 2015

Thank God Avista wasn’t around some 2,000 years ago. The Three Wise Men would have never found baby Jesus.

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Doug Clark: Spokane arm wrestler wins two silvers, considers retirement from sport

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 21, 2015

In a Hollywood movie, the aging fighter who makes one last stab at glory usually winds up with his arms raised and a victorious smile on his face. Cue the music. Roll credits...

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Doug Clark: Help Chewelah break jack-o’-lantern record, and don’t forget the eyebrows

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 19, 2015

Chewelah, Washington will attempt to set a Guinness World Record for having a continuous line of carved and lighted pumpkins.

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Doug Clark: When nature calls, terror can follow

Sun., Oct. 18, 2015

Today we explore that old saying we’ve all heard a million times, you know, the one that goes… Look before you Leak!

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Doug Clark: Playboy was an important part of my young life

Wed., Oct. 14, 2015

Every now and then there’ll be a moment in the culture that will stop you in your tracks. Johnny Carson’s last Tonight Show, for example. The death of Michael Jackson. And another bombshell rocked the Kasbah Monday with the following news: Playboy Magazine will no longer publish nude photos.

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Doug Clark: Local World War II pilots’ heroism chronicled in book

Mon., Oct. 12, 2015

Larry Whitesitt is a celebrated aviator in his own right. But he has spent a fair amount of time compiling a record of the heroics of local World War II pilots, a book that Doug Clark believes ought to be required reading for Spokane-area students.

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Doug Clark: Book on the heroics of local World War II pilots should be required reading

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 12, 2015

Larry Whitesitt is a celebrated aviator in his own right. But he has spent a fair amount of time compiling a record of the heroics of local World War II pilots, a book that Doug Clark believes ought to be required reading for Spokane-area students.