Archives | April 2017

Saturday, April 1

• Charles Krauthammer: Health care fix or single-payer? Stay tuned

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Boy turned down for Navy, immigrants applying for citizenship asked extra loyalty questions as U.S. prepares for WWI

• Froma Harrop: Trump won’t win car-emissions battle

• Symphony conductor Nakahara balances loyalty between Zags, Gamecocks

• Washington Records

All stories for April 1, 2017 »

Sunday, April 2

• Tom Kelly: Elevators create new options to moving

• Front & Center: Jamie Birch invests in people to make his e-commerce business successful

• The Motley Fool: Pfizer’s drug pipeline is an envious mix fighting heart disease, cancer and diabetes and others

• The Dirt: Taco eatery opening in downtown Spokane

• Legislator profile: Heather Scott

All stories for April 2, 2017 »

Monday, April 3

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Newspaper backs Woodrow Wilson’s call to declare war

• Spokane group seeks supplies for medical mission trip to Uganda

• Alzheimer’s patients needed for clinical trial

• East Sprague reconstruction starts Monday

• Then and Now: Przemek Karnowski

All stories for April 3, 2017 »

Tuesday, April 4

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Local leaders back Woodrow’s Wilson’s call to war

• Robert Samuelson: ‘Deaths of despair’ a profound mystery

• Margaret Sullivan: Don’t be fooled by bogus information

• Huckleberries: School trustee skips regular meeting for family Zags event

• Washington Records

All stories for April 4, 2017 »

Wednesday, April 5

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Jews announce support for declaration of war

• Washington Records

• Trudy Rubin: WWI graves a reminder of nationalism’s peril

• WSU, EWU students get support for innovative research

• Food for Fines: Pay your library fine with food during National Library Week

All stories for April 5, 2017 »

Thursday, April 6

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Rally denounces Congressman C.C. Dill for his vote against declaration of war against Germany

• Dana Milbank: Trump getting trolled by dictionary

• Washington Records

• 100 years ago, war declaration started The American Century

• In brief: Trail work continues at Glenrose, Fishtrap

All stories for April 6, 2017 »

Friday, April 7

• 100 years ago in the Inland Northwest: Communities show patriotrism one day after United States enters World War I

• Washington Records

• Amy Goodman: King speech has lessons for today

• Slow-moving landslide near site of 2014 slide shuts road

• Trump administration: ‘Grave concerns’ about police overhaul

All stories for April 7, 2017 »

Saturday, April 8

• Charles Krauthammer: Nuclear option is political karma

• Froma Harrop: Trump shocks liberals into action

• Sue Lani Madsen: Stress and common sense

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Kirtland Cutter, who helped transform the ‘architecturally savage camp’ that was Spokane, says he has great hopes for the city

• Noah Feldman: Supreme Court confirmations enter new era

All stories for April 8, 2017 »

Sunday, April 9

• With lawmakers gone, Otter decides the fate of their work

• Business Beat

• Week Ahead

• Eli Lake: Thank Trump for enforcing ‘red line’

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Patriotic citizens organize youth drum corps

All stories for April 9, 2017 »

Monday, April 10

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Democratic Party chairman gets death threat after criticizing congressman who opposed war declaration

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sessions, Pepsi choose to be blind

• Kai Teoh: Our internet privacy is dead. Congress sold us out.

• Getting There: Centennial Trail draws thousands of users

• WSU grad student designs map of precinct-level election results

All stories for April 10, 2017 »

Tuesday, April 11

• Americans’ attitudes about taxes mixed

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Women needed in the workforce as men head to World War I

• Washington Records

• US temporarily bans use of cyanide predator traps in Idaho

• Mariners fall to Astros as catch not made proves decisive

All stories for April 11, 2017 »

Wednesday, April 12

• Trudy Rubin: Trump must keep pressure on Syria, Russia

• 100 years ago in Spokane: New York Symphony Orchestra plays in Spokane

• Browne’s Addition residents given construction reprieve to apply for historic designation

• Washington Records

• ‘Sliding into catastrophe’: South Sudan famine could spread

All stories for April 12, 2017 »

Thursday, April 13

• Dana Milbank: Drop conspiracies; truth is enough

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Fire Department about to replace its last 5 horses with motorized fire truck

• Washington Records

• Mary Anne Stuckart: As public schools improve, so does our democracy

• Trump changes course again, says Obamacare repeal must happen before tax overhaul

All stories for April 13, 2017 »

Friday, April 14

• Jay Ambrose: Handyman performs spiritual repairs

• Washington Records

• 100 years ago today in Spokane: Wobbly organizer predicts labor fight in lumber camps

• Spin Control: Benton’s number comes up, he’s now head of the draft

• U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke halts transfer of Montana Bison Range to tribes

All stories for April 14, 2017 »

Saturday, April 15

• Charles Krauthammer: America’s strength is back, for now

• Froma Harrop: Airlines need a class for middle class

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Rancher loses control of new car, strikes wagon, nearly crashes into police barn, drives into city hall, injures janitor

• Sue Lani Madsen: Libraries still pillars of communities big and small

• Washington Records

All stories for April 15, 2017 »

Sunday, April 16

• Kathleen Parker: Social media roughs up bullies, boors

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Wobbly organizer accuses lumber bosses of fixing books to prevent wage increases

• At Spokane-area schools, Gay Straight Alliances reflect an evolution in attitude

• Jennifer Rubin: Pompeo issues reassuring defense of CIA

• Stephy Nobles-Beans: Remember who and what we honor on Resurrection Sunday

All stories for April 16, 2017 »

Monday, April 17

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Mother receives letter home from Red Cross ambulance driver at the front of World War I

• Pitts Jr.: If America is to be saved, we’ll need to fight

• Huckleberries: Illustrator Kit Seaton wins acclaim in first graphic novel attempt

• Arkansas governor says execution plan just part of the job

• Construction again slowing traffic over Cascades on I-90

All stories for April 17, 2017 »

Tuesday, April 18

• Josh Rogin: Pence is the secretary of reassurance

• 100 years ago in Spokane: After U.S. enters World War I, Davenport Hotel raises meal prices

• Washington Records

• Republicans brace for results of Georgia special congressional election

• Archosaur fossils are forcing scientists to rethink evolution of dinosaurs

All stories for April 18, 2017 »

Wednesday, April 19

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Man convicted of killing common-law wife hanged at Fort George Wright

• Trudy Rubin: Trump’s embrace of fakery enables Putin

• Washington records

• O’Reilly’s departure creates new challenges for Fox

• Deaths of despair: Millennials turn to drugs, suicide in unforgiving job market

All stories for April 19, 2017 »

Thursday, April 20

• 100 years ago in Montana: Spokane girl dies after suffering from diptheria on a stalled train

• Dana Milbank: Trump provides cover for D.C. swamp

• Washington Records

• Whitworth cuts ties with Planned Parenthood

• Huckleberries: Montana reader agrees: Lake Coeur d’Alene is ‘best damn thing’ about Idaho

All stories for April 20, 2017 »

Friday, April 21

• Goodman: Arkansas’ rush to execute should be stopped

• 100 years ago today in Spokane: Drum and bugle corps sings for Davenport

• Drinking the rainbow: Starbucks’ Unicorn Frappuccino may make you see stars

• Some information on wolf control programs won’t be made public

• Marti Hollenback, owner-dealer at Dishman Dodge, dies

All stories for April 21, 2017 »

Saturday, April 22

• Charles Krauthammer: U.S. has cards to play in North Korea

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Mob of soldiers angry at shooting marches to Wobbly hall

• Washington Records

• Faith and Values: A matter of alignment?

• Harrop: Foreign-worker program needs reform

All stories for April 22, 2017 »

Sunday, April 23

• Business Beat

• Week Ahead

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Woman claims controversial ex-mayor of Wallace, Idaho planned to marry her

• Grocery tax repeal veto prompts debate in Idaho over powers of Legislature, governor

• Agriculture in Washington: About this series

All stories for April 23, 2017 »

Monday, April 24

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Federal agents confiscate guns owned by Germans

• Leonard Pitts Jr.: Infowars commander fooling his loyal followers

• New study: Antidepressants not as harmful during pregnancy as previously thought

• Doomsday Hill gets a total remake

• As spring runoff subsides, mysterious flooding still plagues Spokane Valley neighborhood

All stories for April 24, 2017 »

Tuesday, April 25

• Samuelson: Does Trump Rally rest on illusion or reality?

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Researcher tells Gonzaga crowd to avoid the ‘spirit world,’ warns of Ouija board

• Washington records

• Huckleberries: Ralph Waldo Emerson has family ties in Coeur d’Alene

• Fiddling genius Aaron Castilla is on his way

All stories for April 25, 2017 »

Wednesday, April 26

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Retailers accuse wholesalers of driving up prices; barbers demand shorter workday

• Ramesh Ponnuru: Democrats leave no room for abortion foes

• Washington records

• Education notebook: Mead/Mt. Spokane golf coach honored at invitational

• Huckleberries: A little piglet produces big smiles everywhere she goes in Coeur d’Alene

All stories for April 26, 2017 »

Thursday, April 27

• Washington Records

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Bank certificates recovered, linked to drugging victim

• Milbank: Life imitates cable TV news

• Huckleberries: A centennial bash is in the works for Coeur d’Alene’s historic Jewett House

• Private landowner sues bulldozer owner for scraping road into South Hill bluff

All stories for April 27, 2017 »

Friday, April 28

• Goodman: Immigrant movement builds toward May Day

• 100 years ago in Spokane: Civil War veteran backs draft for World War I

• Shawn Vestal: Racist truck sign honors shameful history

• Northwest wheat prices

• Kendall Yards developer sees ‘enormous potential’ for residential neighborhood on downtown’s east end

All stories for April 28, 2017 »

Saturday, April 29

• Charles Krauthammer: The populist wave is on pause

• Harrop: Can we think our way past robots?

• 100 years ago today in Spokane: Financial leaders gush abut Federal Reserve branch for Spokane

• Spokane woman heading to D.C. to highlight importance of early childhood education

• Sue Lani Madsen: There’s reason for optimism in Trump’s first 100 days

All stories for April 29, 2017 »

Sunday, April 30

• Eye on Boise: Only in Idaho have lawmakers changed school science standards on climate change

• Business Beat

• Week Ahead

• Parker: Trump analysis overdone, bigly

• Here’s how Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Raul Labrador voted last week in Congress

All stories for April 30, 2017 »