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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Let’s all paws and appreciate the wisdom of...
    By Robert Whale • April 27, 2024 8:00 am

    I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.

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    Kathy Lambert is a former member of the King County Council who represented the Snoqualmie Valley area.
    County needs to spend your money on veterans...
    April 17, 2024 4:50 pm

    You can attend a town hall in Snoqualmie from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 18 at Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. SE, to talk about how the Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy monies should be spent during the next six years.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    Snake oil salesmen thrive in the social media...
    By Robert Whale • April 10, 2024 1:30 am

    Like Teddy Daniels, a former candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant, who is prominently featured in a series of doomsday, deep-fake ads on Facebook and Youtube.

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    Cartoon by Frank Shiers
    About that Tolt Dam alarm | Cartoon by...
    April 9, 2024 12:00 pm

    While Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) continues to investigate the March 27 Tolt Dam false alarm, it has been confirmed that Federal Signal — one of SPU’s vendors — is to blame.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Once upon a time, there was a local...
    By Robert Whale • April 6, 2024 1:30 am

    I could call up any large chain store in a city and talk to someone without being told to call corporate ownership on the other side of the country.

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    If you’re right, and you know it, then read this | Whale’s Tales
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    By Robert Whale • March 29, 2024 1:30 am

    As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”

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    March 22, 2024 1:30 am

    Cartoon by Roy Rand

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Foreign languages often find a better way to...
    By Robert Whale • March 15, 2024 1:30 pm

    “Learn a new language and get a new soul.”

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    The key thing is what we do with...
    By Robert Whale • March 6, 2024 8:00 am

    I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.

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    Don C. Brunell is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He is a former president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business organization, and lives in Vancouver. Contact thebrunells@msn.com.
    America still needs more welders, fewer philosophers |...
    February 24, 2024 1:30 pm

    It is not a matter of pay. A welder with basic skills now averages $47,000 a year with good benefits. Those who complete further training and gather job-site experience can earn more than $100,000 annually.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Once upon a time, flexibility was seen as...
    By Robert Whale • February 16, 2024 1:30 am

    I have always considered it a strength, not a weakness, to consult with people with whom we vehemently disagree.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Poetic proof that artificial intelligence needs a human...
    By Robert Whale • February 15, 2024 1:30 am

    Of course there’s irony here in that LinkedIn is asking writers — who, after all, make their living by writing — to help “educate” a technology that would automate their jobs.

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    Cartoon by Roy Rand
    Deadly SR 18 | Cartoon by Roy Rand
    February 9, 2024 7:30 am

    Cartoon by Roy Rand

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