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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Here’s a theory on why people embrace all...
    By Robert Whale • May 14, 2022 5:30 am

    Not so long ago, one could have called me a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core skeptic about cryptids.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Never miss a chance to treasure your mama...
    By Robert Whale • May 7, 2022 5:30 am

    With the approach of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mother, gone 16 years ago…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Could we pull together like the Ukrainians are...
    By Robert Whale • April 14, 2022 3:04 pm

    The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Music at the intersection of past and present...
    By Robert Whale • March 11, 2022 11:35 am

    It is a July day in 1969, and I am with my family at Lake Surprise. I have just finished…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com
    Watching the social media and cable news train...
    By Robert Whale • March 5, 2022 5:30 am

    To say that anything is possible is to condition the sinister, pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Writer goes on a tear about flabby language...
    By Robert Whale • February 18, 2022 3:00 pm

    Those who know me know me know I’m a bit of a stickler about language.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    The growing disconnect between public servants and the...
    By Robert Whale • January 28, 2022 5:30 am

    As one small part of the often derided “legacy media,” I am aware that what I am about to say…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    My bold New Year’s resolutions – late, as...
    By Robert Whale • January 22, 2022 12:15 pm

    I was born late — exactly three weeks — despite my mother’s earnest efforts to speed the process along with…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Good night, John Boy, from another generation |...
    By Robert Whale • January 13, 2022 3:08 pm

    When I was growing up in the 1970s, like many others I enjoyed “The Waltons,” Earl Hamner Jr.’s televised account…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com
    Don’t fool yourself: COVID’s tentacles are long enough...
    By Robert Whale • December 30, 2021 5:30 am

    From March 2020 until recently, it seemed to me that COVID-19 always hit someone far off, the man who’d been…

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    Fire inflicted heavy damage to the second floor and roof of the 2-story apartment-and ground-floor retail building at 115 East Main Street beginning late on the night of Friday July 23 and continuing into early Saturday morning. The Valley Regional Fire Authority reports that all residents got out safely. Photo courtesy Auburn Police Department.
    Fire sweeps downtown Auburn apartment building, all residents...
    By Robert Whale • July 24, 2021 1:30 am

    Firefighters had to rescue two residents from the roof of an apartment building in downtown Auburn that burned late Friday…

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    Traffic alerts now and upcoming in King County
    By Robert Whale • July 13, 2021 1:30 am

    As of 8:14 a.m. July 13, an earlier ramp blocking incident on SR 520 Westbound at 108th Avenue Northeast in…

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    Road buckling on I-90 | King County traffic...
    By Robert Whale • June 29, 2021 1:30 am

    As of Monday evening June 28 and continuing into Tuesday morning and afternoon, June 29, the Washington State Department of…

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