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Matter of Opinion archive for July 23, 2009

THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2009

Thursday's loose thread 

When my office was in the old Chronicle Building on Sprague Avenue, I frequently had passers-by tap on the window -- often school kids lined up and waiting to go on field trips. That hasn't happened since I moved to the fourth floor of the…

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Ever-popular sewage 

A story today reports that Airway Heights is getting $22 million in federal stimulus money for a wastewater treatment plant that's scheduled to be operating in two years.That's a million gallons that no longer will go to the city of Spokane's plant, opening up capacity…

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