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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    When old age and cancer treatments collide |...
    By Robert Whale • September 5, 2025 7:30 am

    I was walking along a hall at the weekly newspaper that first employed me one afternoon when I heard footsteps…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    The impact and residue of wounding words |...
    By Robert Whale • August 8, 2025 1:30 pm

    My father, Maurice George Whale, was a man of many words.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    Protect values and freedoms that make this country...
    By Robert Whale • June 27, 2025 1:30 am

    Letting the essential pillars of our democracy fall doesn’t make a lick of sense to me.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    A look at the fool’s potential radius of...
    By Robert Whale • May 9, 2025 1:30 am

    Ever since it invented the skid steer loader in 1960, the Bobcat Company claims on its website, it has “helped…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Looking through the rear-view mirror in my mind...
    By Robert Whale • May 3, 2025 7:30 am

    Road trips through the heart of Eastern Washington’s one-horse towns are among the most treasured memories of my childhood.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    A serious bone to pick with the powers...
    By Robert Whale • April 25, 2025 11:00 am

    Questioning methods, as I see it, has nothing to do with politics or personal animosities.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    A little political lesson from Wile E. Coyote...
    By Robert Whale • March 14, 2025 1:30 am

    In a series of rules that Wile E. Coyote’s creator, Chuck Jones, laid down in 1948 to guide Warner Brothers’…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    The benefits of taking a good look at...
    By Robert Whale • February 21, 2025 1:30 pm

    None of us looking at what’s happening in the world sees things exactly as the next guy does.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Confessions of a klutz: Was I cursed from...
    By Robert Whale • January 17, 2025 1:30 am

    For most of my life, that’s how I felt about myself.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    History has always been about human beings |...
    By Robert Whale • December 27, 2024 1:30 am

    Years ago, the late journalist Harry Reasoner said this on a CBS historical documentary: “The past is like a foreign…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Strange tales from life at University of Washington...
    By Robert Whale • December 13, 2024 11:30 am

    I have many treasured memories from my four years at the University of Washington, and to this day, they bring…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    Let’s leave bridge building to the bridge builders...
    By Robert Whale • November 29, 2024 10:05 am

    I have been thinking a lot about an alarming trend in this nation that appears to elevate ignorance.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Consider the influence of those annoying ads |...
    By Robert Whale • October 4, 2024 1:30 am

    Because what we know about this election is that other nations that mean us ill — for example, Russia, China and Iran — are working overtime to influence our election.

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