November 28, 2008, (Award of Merit winner, 2009 ECO Awards for Excellence in Environmental Communication.)
Item: People are driving to Idaho to buy dish soap banned from stores in Spokane. How you can have cleaner dishes, make better use of your time, and still help the Spokane River.
Not surprisingly, my last memorable conversation with Bob Glatzer was a lively argument about a movie. I adore Meryl Streep and I thought 2009’s Julie & Julia, a clever parallel story about the legendary Julia Child and the contemporary food writer Julie Powell, was a terrific film.
Spokane’s Margaret Witt made legal history when she took the Air Force and the U.S. Justice Department to court over ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and won. The now-retired Air Force Major and her partner, Laurie Johnson, talk about the trials in and out of the courtroom, and how adversity enriched their lives.
