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Paul Turner: Football season raises a few questions

Thu., July 26, 2018

Will you be a football fan this year or will you find some other seasonal diversions?

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Paul Turner: Will the office change when the last baby boomer retires?

Wed., July 25, 2018

An email arrived with this is in the subject line: “NEWS FLASH: Another baby boomer retires!”

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Paul Turner: What will have happened to Spokane in 31 years?

Tue., July 24, 2018

Richard Nixon once predicted we would visit new worlds and discover life on distant planets within 31 years of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon mission.

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Paul Turner: Minor league soccer in Spokane? You don’t say!

Mon., July 23, 2018

In the discussions about possibly building a sports stadium in downtown Spokane, it came up that the city might attract a minor league soccer team if that happened.

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Paul Turner: Staring at the water an oft-overlooked pastime

Sun., July 22, 2018

Swimming, boating and straddling those aquatic crotch rockets, it’s all fine. But when people talk about the Inland Northwest’s love of lake life, I sometimes think they overlook what just might be our most popular form of summer recreation.

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Paul Turner: Blame the coyote

Thu., July 19, 2018

Around here, just who are the usual suspects?

News >  Spokane

Turner: Trump oval on ballot would be hard to fill in

Wed., July 18, 2018

Near the end of my father’s life more than 10 years ago, his macular degeneration had gotten so bad that I had to fill out his election ballot for him. At one point, this raised an ethical quandary.

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A favorite All-Star game memory

Tue., July 17, 2018

Midseason classic

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Paul Turner: The children’s table has gone from fun place to phone time

Tue., July 17, 2018

Whereas it once was the reliable home of festive bedlam, this mealtime reservation for youth has become an island of semi-silence as kids devote most of their attention to their phones.

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Marmot time

Mon., July 16, 2018

Our signature rodent

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Paul Turner: A few alternatives for measuring time

Mon., July 16, 2018

Labor Day is seven weeks from today. But that’s simply going by the calendar. How quickly will it

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Paul Turner: Combing through nominees for Inland Northwest Bald Man of the Year

Sun., July 15, 2018

Let’s hear from bald men and a few of those who remember the moon landing this week in 1969.

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Paul Turner: Dialing in was real adventure back in the day

UPDATED: Wed., July 11, 2018

So I apologize if I made it sound as if the West was a radio wasteland back in the day.

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Paul Turner: Babies’ names offered snapshot of community

UPDATED: Tue., July 10, 2018

Say what you will about the newspaper. This is our community, too. No one here at Riverside and Monroe wants to see anything bad happen to a single child.

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Paul Turner: Of backyard magpies, raccoons, moose … and eagles?

UPDATED: Mon., July 9, 2018

Anyone seen a pterodactyl in Browne’s Addition? Or maybe just a moose?

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Paul Turner: In defense of men underfoot

Mon., July 9, 2018

I’m not saying men always get blamed for everything.

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Another sunny summer Sunday

Sun., July 8, 2018

A kid's eye view.

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Paul Turner: Could you be 2018’s Inland Northwest Bald Man of the Year?

Sun., July 8, 2018

Today we set about identifying the 2018 Inland Northwest Bald Man of the Year.

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Paul Turner: Ground rules for mowing my lawn

Thu., July 5, 2018

Every once in a while a mumbling kid will show up on our porch and ask if I would like to have our lawn mowed.

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Looking ahead to next July

Wed., July 4, 2018

Apollo 11

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Paul Turner: Some reflections on Independence Day

UPDATED: Tue., July 3, 2018

Independence Day can be an occasion for looking back, for reflection. With that in mind, here are a few column items I’ve run over the years that deal with the Fourth of July.

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Paul Turner: Mungo Jerry for Congress

UPDATED: Mon., July 2, 2018

When a red sign appears in a yard right next door to a lawn sporting a blue sign, I like to imagine how those neighbors get along in these polarized times.

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Paul Turner: How to talk when we talk about Hoopfest

Mon., July 2, 2018

Here’s a quick guide to the sort of Hoopfest stories your co-workers and others will actually want to hear from you today.

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Paul Turner: The thoughts that follow in the wake of violence

Sun., July 1, 2018

This is a nation populated with an alarming number of broken, unhinged people. Many of them have guns. You knew that. But have you considered what it’s doing to the rest of us to constantly (or even occasionally) wonder if the stranger headed our way is an armed menace?

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Paul Turner: Time to consider those midyear resolutions

Thu., June 28, 2018

So it’s time again to consider your Second Half of the Year Resolutions.