Mike’s Corner: Got some good news and some bad news
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I was raised in Walla Walla… a nice town to grow up in… I still venture back there now and again to sing in a …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I was raised in Walla Walla… a nice town to grow up in… I still venture back there now and again to sing in a …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Idaho’s Legislative District 1 has two new challengers, with Democrats Karen Matthee and Kathryn Larson joining the race for Seats A and B, respectively.
Rep. …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
New Year’s Day has a kind of feeling to it doesn’t it? Sometimes, not a very good one. For me, this time around I found …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader contributor
It was right about the time I got my first real job… teaching school… when I decided to get a dog. I had taught that …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
Archaeologists keep finding cool things out about us… our early history as a species… Homo Sapiens, baby… that’s who we are.
Evidently an early prototype …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I hang tomato plants upside down in the windows of my cabin just before the frost, allowing all those green ones to slowly ripen as …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I saw a movie at the old drive-in theater in my hometown when I was in high school… sittin’ in my tired ’54 Chevy… speaker …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
I got the call on a Sunday afternoon… It was a neighbor of my folks back in Walla Walla, where I grew up. I was …
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
One day, I discovered a spider, the likes of which one may never see in a lifetime. There it was, dutifully and methodically replacing one …
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