Hump Day Wild Card — 9.9.09

I made it. Twenty-five years with The Spokesman-Review in Coeur d’Alene. I began work as a local government reporter at the SR building at 4th & Garden — and also covered cops and courts for the first four months until Regional Editor Doug Clark and I both decided that I didn’t like chasing ambulances. So I added the Post Falls beat to Coeur d’Alene and City Hall, and dropped courts & cops. I covered a labor dispute between Coeur d’Alene’s teachers and the school district for my first story. I then reported on local government for 9 years before moving to the editorial board for the next 14 years. You know what happened from there. There won’t be a golden anniversary to go with this silver one. But I’m a long way from retiring. So I’ll play this Wild Card and get on with the first day of the rest of my journalism career …