We'll be bouncing over to the new Web site, www.spokesman.com, pretty soon. So get those bookmarks ready. ( Full post )
[...]We'll be bouncing over to the new Web site, www.spokesman.com, pretty soon. So get those bookmarks ready. ( Full post )
[...]Interesting data in the latest census report. ( Full post )
[...]Yesterday I posted about the state's new budget-data Web site and described it as user-friendly. After spending some hands-on time with it, I tried to see it through the eyes of somebody who hasn't had a ringside seat to the Legislature. Maybe it's not quite as convenient as I first [...]
For those who are weary of the Obama citizenship frenzy, did you know JFK is still alive and in a comatose state at Bethesda? And that Neil Armstrong never landed on the moon; it was all staged in a TV studio.
But, as the headline says, it's loose thread time. ( [...]
First a confession: Yes, I'm one of those people who bristles when a clerk has to rely on the cash register to tabulate the change for a cash purchase. I want it counted back into my hand -- the right way.
So today I received a letter from a writer who [...]
After 14 years, the diaspora has ended. Today, the staff of the editorial page returns to the fourth floor quarters inhabited by tne newsroom. Gary Crooks is off today, but he'll join me on Wednesday in our new quarters.
It was February 1994, when The Spokesman-Review created the position of interactive [...]
Detroit News turns the front page over to the editorial board. Highly unusual. But, of course, the auto bailout is a big deal to Michigan.
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Chicago Tribune has an article -- and refutation -- of an ad placed in its pages stating that Obama is not eligible to be president. ( Full post )
[...]Democrat John Driscoll has defeated Republican state Rep. John Ahern in Spokane's 6th District. The required hand recount resulted in only a two-vote change. The total number of ballots cast remained the same, but Driscoll's victory margin shrunk from 74 votes to 72.
After the 2000 presidential race, the 2004 Washington [...]
Here's a heads up regarding some of the syndicated writers whose stuff you see from time to time on the opinion pages.
We're going to be picking up conservative Charles Krauthammer and liberal Amy Goodman. You may have read there commentary earlier this year when they were among several columnists we [...]
A spat over the use of teachers' union dues for political purposes has been going on for eight years. It's been to the state and U.S. supreme courts.
Now, just maybe, it's over. Here's an announcement from the Washington state Attorney General's Office:
OLYMPIA The State of Washington and [...]
Spokane would lose more that a cool tour through an old mansion if the Campbell House were to close. ( Full post )
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Here is Barack Obama in an interview with MTV: ( Full post )
Talking Points Memo (yeah, a bunch of libs) has hooked up with Google (yeah, a bunch of nerds) to provide this whiz bang map that allows you to watch results are they trickle or pour in across the country. ( Full post )
[...]That's what the latest dessert creation on the Cake Wrecks blog tells us, anyway. Maybe it was a Magritte-esque expression of what I've heard from many people who don't believe their vote makes any difference. ( Full post )
[...]Part of the Sprague-Appleway couplet will be converted back to two-way streets, somewhat putting to rest a discussion which has gone on for years. But it has a long way to go following the compromise. In our opinion, what Spokane Valley really needs is to come up with a [...]
Sunday's editorial urged interested citizens to contribute their feedback on Spokane Transit Authority's proposed redesign of the downtown Plaza. Now that ridership has skyrocketed, the interested public is much larger. Some of the intentions of the $20 million building didn't pan out, and it is wise to adjust accordingly, [...]
So, I've gotten a couple of emails taking me to task for my "anti-Obama tirade" today. I would've thought the last line would tip off the undecideds or readers who have never read me before. ( Full post )
[...]Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's, recently wrote of the best ways to stimulate the economy. The Economic Policy Institute then put it in a handy chart, which reflects the return we could expect to see for every dollar spent. ( Full post )
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I have to admit, I've always thought election projections were pretty funny -- kind of like airfares. Where do they come from? ( 