Four years ago, Spokane County water experts were eager to help with a public health response to potent contaminants in West Plains drinking water. A powerful commissioner pulled the plug. A bit more than a year ago Chuck Danner learned he might have a problem with his water. He learned this not from following the … Continue reading Al French and the “forever chemicals” cover-up→| Rhubarb Skies
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A guest sermon offers a postscript for Beautiful Wounds, and a eulogy for a remarkable woman. Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, Sunday, December 18, 2022 The last time I was here, five years ago, it was to talk about Tell, the 2017 book I’d written with and about Margaret Witt and her wife Laurie. I’ve … Continue reading In the Realm of Her Heart→| Rhubarb Skies
Images from a long summer on the rocks I remember two things about my first visit to the Grand Canyon. The first is we all got in trouble. By “we” I mean the four oldest of the Connor children who were deemed old enough to know better than to go over the barrier along the … Continue reading The Old Testaments→| Rhubarb Skies
A note of thanks to a brave and wise Panamanian, 45 years overdue. It is a sultry Sunday in early July and I am seated on a shady lanai on the Banana River just south of Cape Canaveral, the guest of one of my high school classmates. Across from me are Lionel and Mark, the … Continue reading Gracias Roberto→| Rhubarb Skies
A catastrophic fire, an expert guide, and a dauntless scabland bird Before an outing at dawn a few days ago I had only seen my friend Lindell Haggin twice in the past year. Both of those times were on remote video sessions devoted to habitat restoration. Suffice to say, in-person adventures are superior to Zoom … Continue reading The Sage Thrasher’s Next Song→| Rhubarb Skies
In 2013 Spokane’s electorate voted overwhelmingly to change the city’s charter to require independence for in civilian oversight of the police. On Monday, the city council voted for the third time not to enforce that mandate. Police reform is difficult everywhere but in Spokane there was, in the early years of Mayor David Condon’s first … Continue reading Strike Three→| Rhubarb Skies
If your America is so great, again, why does Dr. Anthony Fauci need bodyguards? Five years ago, as she chaired a nationally televised debate among Republican presidential primary candidates, Megyn Kelly, then of Fox News, pressed Donald Trump on his crassness toward women. Why, she began to ask, did he give himself permission to disparage … Continue reading My last question for trump voters→| Rhubarb Skies
How an obscure freeway exit can change your day, and perhaps your life. Halfway between Spokane and Seattle, Interstate-90 dips to the southwest and descends from the open flatlands of Grant County…| Rhubarb Skies
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