October
Partners in Sunshine
Cherie Rodgers and Larry Shook talk about the day they arrived at City Hall to shine a piercing light on Spokane’s most expensive secrets.
The first-ever meeting between Spokane City Councilwoman Cherie Rodgers and former Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Guy was not supposed to happen.
Or at least it wasn’t supposed happen this way—with a journalist in the room, furiously taking notes.
The end result was Larry Shook’s timeless story for Camas Magazine—Judge Guy Meets Cherie Rodgers.
But how, exactly, did it come about?
That’s one of the questions I put to both of them in an interview earlier this month, which you can listen to here.
The Banana and the Bomb
Locating risk and moral boundaries in a radioactive world.
By Tim Connor
In writing recently about the radioactive consequences of Fukushima, I made use of a banana. It was handy. A simple banana, chock full of healthy, life-giving potassium—99.988 percent of which is not radioactive.
In Praise of the Hermiston Watermelon
Stand in line for the elephant ears if you must, but don’t block the melon booth.
By Mary Harvill
When I was living in Portland, Oregon, I saw a spill of Hermiston, Oregon-grown watermelons, splattered across a freeway on-ramp. Total tragedy. Those watermelons traveled all the way from Eastern Oregon only to meet their grim (though colorful) demise on the urban asphalt. The gaudy, juicy scene reminded me of the fate of travelers along the Oregon Trail when they drowned crossing the Columbia River.