February 18, 2010
Day One
Then it comes. The judge calls my case. Butterflies fill my stomach. By Angela McIntire.
Read moreFebruary 16, 2010
Now, that’s a kitchen table
The Main Market celebrates its opening on West Main, with a poetic twist.
Read moreFebruary 8, 2010
Where’s the Brief?
The question of whether Spokane can ever have a credible, independent police ombudsman may come down to a fairly simple legal argument. Let’s have it.
Read moreFebruary 5, 2010
How to Remember Howard Zinn
NPR’s ombudsman weighs in on a flawed story about the passing of one of America’s finest, and most courageous, historians.
Read moreFebruary 4, 2010
The Chairman’s Eloquent Appeal
The repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is not yet scheduled for a vote this year in Congress, but Admiral Mike Mullen’s poignant and personal urging to dispose of it should mark the beginning of its end.
Read moreJanuary 26, 2010
Haiti, the Week After
An Update from Buck Close, January 25, 2010
Read moreJanuary 10, 2010
Why Murrow Can’t Rest in Peace
How American journalism and its consumers are bringing out the worst in each other.
Read moreJanuary 8, 2010
Exit 5, Revisited
Mary Harvill’s surprising discoveries in Post Falls.
Read moreJanuary 1, 2010
01/01/2010
A New Year’s Day brick through The Inlander’s rose-coloured windows.
Read moreDecember 29, 2009
Making Our Mothers Laugh
The joke is always some variation on us running around the house naked, shouting, “I got the balloon!”
By Jamie Borgan
December 28, 2009
Fighting for my Husband
Mary Harvill reflects on her death defying experience with the American health care system.
Read moreDecember 23, 2009
When the Penguins Vote Republican
Why would the science on climate change look so different, depending on your politics?
Read moreDecember 16, 2009
A Dynamic Duo Takes to the Air
Spokane’s best environmental bloggers now have their own weekly radio show.
Read moreDecember 1, 2009
Lost in Afghanistan
American hubris gives us a knack for making tragic mistakes with our military. Welcome to the next one.
Read moreNovember 22, 2009
That Was Quick
The Cowleses’ rebuttal to last week’s Mobius malfunction at the Park Board.
Read moreNovember 17, 2009
Okay, it’s Kona, not Chicago…
“Come back and tell me how it was,” the woman says, as we leave the open air lobby of the hotel.
Read moreNovember 1, 2009
A Slice of Blue November
A hike inside the Canyon’s canyon.
Read moreOctober 26, 2009
In Praise of Elizabeth Warren
Amidst all the illusions and false promises in the incipient rescue of the American economy, at least one smart woman from Oklahoma is working for taxpayers and homeowners.
Read moreOctober 23, 2009
A Spovangelist Sampler
When Mariah McKay has something to say, it’s always worth an ear or two.
Read moreOctober 18, 2009
Rachel Rules
Why Poppy Bush is all wrong about Rachel Maddow.
Read moreOctober 6, 2009
How to Eat a Fish
On a global scale, overfishing is destroying the world’s ocean ecosystems and the human societies that have long depended upon them. Yet, closer to home, the energy and commitment needed to save threatened wild salmon comes from the same people who love to catch and eat them.
Read moreOctober 5, 2009
Lost in America, a Postcript
Michael Moore asks whether our days as a democracy are over.
Read moreOctober 2, 2009
A Real Showstopper
Nothing like a really cool bug to keep you grounded.
Read moreSeptember 20, 2009
Postcard from the Edge (of Hanford)
“If Brett gets hit by a bus tomorrow,” Todd said, “there goes about forty percent of what Hanford knows about the river.”
Read moreSeptember 15, 2009
Lost in America, Redux
Notwithstanding another admirable Presidential speech, the gambling in the banking system is at least as dangerous today as it was a year ago.
Read moreSeptember 13, 2009
Another Dance in the Rain
Carol Schillios accepts the humor and adversity of her quest to raise $1 million for cross-cultural relationship building.
Read moreSeptember 6, 2009
Insomnia 08/09
Jamie Borgan’s sleepless summer nights with the architects of the Christian Coalition.
Read moreAugust 22, 2009
Down the Global Warming Rabbit Hole
A short search in wacko-land for the truth about climate change.
Read moreAugust 14, 2009
Hanging with the Waterkeepers
“The thing I love about what you do is that you do. You don’t just talk about it.”–President Bill Clinton
Read moreAugust 12, 2009
Stone Soup for Dogs
On an arid trail below the bluff, Breean Beggs discovers a thirst for community.
Read moreWelcome
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