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S H O P I Nor S T O R E ONLINE Speaker of the House Tom Foley (right), First Lady Hillary Clinton and House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt in 1993. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PHOTO
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o, as the world turns: All of a sudden the Democrats control the presidency, certainly for the next four years, and the Congress for sure for the next two. Meanwhile, King County ensures that Washington state will vote Democratic and, well, that’s pretty much the ball game. The state’s political future looks a lot like a donkey. The West Side benefits directly from what happens in Seattle, but Spokane? Without the clout of a Tom Foley, we get the crumbs. Our governors come from the West Side, our U.S. senators come from the West Side, but here we see the same impulses that voted out Tom Foley are keeping many in the greater Spokane area from understanding that the health of the City of Spokane is the key to the health of the region. It’s not just that our fellow Washingtonians look over the Cascade curtain at us with bewilderment. No, that hurts — so many of us are so much better than that. But it’s more that we need a place at the table, to be part of the conversation — and allocations of resources — as the economic recovery unfolds. We need to find a way to better understand our own often self-defeating history and — as Joe Biden might say — find some common purpose the way we used to do it. n Robert Herold is a retired professor of political science who taught at both Gonzaga University and Eastern Washington University.
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ETHICAL LAPSE
Steven A. Smith, a former editor of the Spokesman-Review, argues in a column on Inlander.com that the paper’s current editor, Rob Curley, committed an egregious ethical lapse. Curley attended Joe Biden’s inauguration as the plus-one guest of CONGRESSWOMAN CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS and despite his access to the press-avoidant lawmaker, he failed to question her on why she supported Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. As Smith writes, “The ethics issues here are clear. Journalists, among other vital, value-driven functions, are to serve the public interest, providing information citizens need to exercise their citizenship. That is a fundamental ethical obligation, and one Curley looks to have disregarded.”
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