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Stearns and Cooke take early leads in the...
By Robert Whale • August 6, 2024 10:00 pm

For position 1, Entenman and Lyebyedyev automatically advance to the general election.

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Green River. File photo
Project targets major flooding of Green River
By Robert Whale • May 3, 2024 7:30 am

The risk posed to the 21-mile corridor could affect more than 27,000 residents and the stability of 28,000 jobs.

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Photo courtesy of the City of Auburn
The Navy Band of the Northwest participated in the 2022 parade.
Don’t miss Auburn’s 58th annual Veterans Parade
By Robert Whale • November 10, 2023 7:00 am

One of the largest Veterans Day parades west of the Mississippi returns to Auburn on Saturday, Nov. 11.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Here’s a column for anyone who loves their...
By Robert Whale • October 6, 2023 7:00 am

It is plain to me in looking at dogs small and large that a decent share of them are exemplars of love on Earth, innocents who love unconditionally and love their chow.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Organized thoughts about my second fight with cancer...
By Robert Whale • August 11, 2023 1:30 am

It is 12:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Here’s what communist and totalitarian trials really look...
By Robert Whale • April 14, 2023 1:30 am

In the 1968 film “Oliver!,” the murderous Bill Sykes’ doomed lover, Nancy, leads pub revelers in a round of “Oom…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Clear communication vs. sticking your head in the...
By Robert Whale • March 24, 2023 1:30 am

As I have written before in this column, I am a word person.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Victim energy is a siren song to which...
By Robert Whale • March 3, 2023 1:30 am

We find them everywhere we turn.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
‘I must have driven through a barn’ and...
By Robert Whale • January 6, 2023 11:45 am

My brother, Jack, and I were jabbering on Christmas Eve about all the things we’ve done in our lives that…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
When old age asks the new year for...
By Robert Whale • December 31, 2022 5:30 am

One of the important lessons the dawning of each new year has taught me is the futility of making New…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Thanksgiving and the Whale kitchen’s eternal warmth |...
By Robert Whale • November 20, 2022 5:30 am

Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
The ‘ignoranting’ of Americans in the age of...
By Robert Whale • November 12, 2022 5:30 am

Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them into one…

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Shukri Olow and Chris Stearns
Stearns leading Olow by a wide margin for...
By Robert Whale • November 8, 2022 9:24 pm

Clash between two Democratic candidates

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
The cost we pay for having a marketplace...
By Robert Whale • October 21, 2022 10:40 am

Ah, the internet, the internet, let us count the many blessings of the internet.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
We all need to acknowledge the devils in...
By Robert Whale • September 16, 2022 1:30 pm

I read somewhere years ago — I have forgotten where — that if a person cannot relish the puncturing of…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
My fellow Americans, we need a political middle...
By Robert Whale • July 29, 2022 5:30 am

For the poor beleaguered voter in the coming elections, I offer this piece of advice — beware of the stealth…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
There’s nothing partisan about recognizing the truth |...
By Robert Whale • July 22, 2022 5:30 am

Nobody cares. Nobody is watching.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Here’s the supreme irony behind so-called states’ rights...
By Robert Whale • July 16, 2022 5:30 am

Many crack-brained ideas are riding the winds in this country, noxious seeds bound for the ears of sympathetic legislators.

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To prevent future violence, we need to learn what’s in us | Whale’s Tales
To prevent future violence, we need to learn...
By Robert Whale • July 2, 2022 5:30 am

Fresh pools of blood, tears and fury.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Seems we didn’t see what we saw, or...
By Robert Whale • June 22, 2022 8:30 am

Like others lately, I have been avidly following the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings into the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
So much in me, good and bad, I...
By Robert Whale • June 18, 2022 6:30 am

This Sunday, like many folks across this nation will do and each in their own way, I will remember my…

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Police lines set up outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (Public domain photo courtesy of VOA/Wikipedia)
The search for common ground in our national...
By Robert Whale • June 10, 2022 10:47 am

Late last month, a small Texas city joined an ever-expanding list of cities and sites that none of them ever…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
The frustrating clash between reality and conspiracies |...
By Robert Whale • June 4, 2022 11:30 am

I have thinking lately about goofy, patently absurd notions.

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