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Matter of Opinion archive for July 27, 2007

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007

Q: How Would You React to this Inconvenience?

Colin Mulvaney/Spokesman-ReviewEmergency personnel talk to a suicidal man who has been perched on the railing of the Monroe Street Bridge since about 7 o'clock last night. Firefighter-paramedics are standing by, and the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office’s dive team also is on the scene. Traffic has…

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Preserving parks

From today's editorial:A community's parks are sometimes compared to a person's lungs. Lungs take up a lot of space, because they need room to perform their dynamic function – breathe in, breathe out – and people with compromised lungs often feel as if they are…

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