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    Original intent and other constitutional questions | Whale’s...
    By Robert Whale • August 22, 2025 1:30 am

    Original intent.

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    Oksana Lusnikova of Pie Style Bakery, located at 1111 East Main St. in Auburn. Photo by Robert Whale/Auburn Reporter
    Pie Style Bakery moves to new space in...
    By Robert Whale • August 21, 2025 11:05 am

    Mama and grandma seemed to pull food out of the air.

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    Jeffrey Nelson, a former officer with the Auburn Police Department, receives his sentence Jan. 23 at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Photo by Joshua Solorzano/Sound Publishing
    Auburn Police Advisory Committee outlines changes
    By Robert Whale • August 16, 2025 7:30 am

    Auburn’s Police Advisory Committee cannot make policy.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    Lessons from ‘Black Like Me’ have stayed with...
    By Robert Whale • August 15, 2025 1:30 pm

    I first read John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me” in Mrs. Dickinson’s seventh-grade English class at Cascade Junior High in…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    Revenge and score settling have no place in...
    By Robert Whale • August 8, 2025 9:30 am

    In parts of the world, lives and battles lost more than 1,000 years ago still get human blood boiling.

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    The exterior of the rebuilt Terminal Park Elementary School, 1101 D St. SE, Auburn. The remodeled school opened in Sept. 2023 and was the final school financed by the district's 2016 bond. File photo
    Auburn School District to put bond and levy...
    By Robert Whale • August 8, 2025 8:30 am

    One focuses on construction, while the other targets safety and technology.

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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 1, 2025 1:30 pm

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

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    Downtown work as seen from the vicinity of the now demolished comic book store and site of the future downtown park. Courtesy photo, City of Auburn
    Update on summer road construction in Auburn
    By Robert Whale • August 1, 2025 11:30 am

    City has 40 projects in the works.

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    Candidates for Auburn mayor facing off in the August primary. Left to right: Yolanda Trout, Ron Morgan, Nancy Backus.
    Primary election 2025: What Auburn voters need to...
    By Robert Whale • July 30, 2025 2:30 pm

    Primary is Aug. 5.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    Ode to the quirky people you meet in...
    By Robert Whale • July 25, 2025 11:30 am

    I have been thinking lately about our many quirks and contradictions.

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    Council approves traffic safety camera expansion
    By Robert Whale • July 25, 2025 1:30 am

    Three Auburn intersections will receive the cameras later this year.

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    Pictured left to right: Lisa Stirgus, Cobi Clark, James Jeyaraj. (Courtesy photos)
    Meet the candidates for Auburn City Council Pos....
    By Robert Whale • July 18, 2025 5:30 pm

    Top two finishers advance to general election in November.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    This executive overreach should scare all Americans |...
    By Robert Whale • July 18, 2025 1:30 am

    As most of us learned at school, the U.S. Constitution requires a supermajority of three-fourths of the states to ratify any amendment.

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    Mayor Nancy Backus, Ron Morgan and Auburn City Councilmember Yolanda Trout make the case for themselves at Auburn mayoral debate put on by the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce on July 9 at the Auburn Senior Center. Courtesy photo
    Auburn mayoral candidates share vision for the city
    By Robert Whale • July 17, 2025 3:27 pm

    Three candidates will face off in the August primary election.

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    Left to right: Yuval Fleming, Brian Lott, Erica Tomas.
    Meet the three candidates for Auburn City Council...
    By Robert Whale • July 11, 2025 11:30 am

    Top two finishers advance to general election in November.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    Wacky weather conspiracy theorists strike again | Whale’s...
    By Robert Whale • July 11, 2025 1:30 am

    The initial news was grim enough on its own: flash flooding in Central Texas had taken dozens of lives, with…

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    Ron Morgan is running for the office of mayor in Auburn. Courtesy photo, Ron Morgan
    Meet Auburn’s mayoral candidates: Ron Morgan
    By Robert Whale • July 5, 2025 8:30 am

    The public can attend an in-person debate between the three candidates for mayor from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 9, at the Auburn Senior Center.

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    Auburn City Councilmember Yolanda Trout. Courtesy photo
    Meet Auburn’s mayoral candidates: Yolanda Trout
    By Robert Whale • July 5, 2025 8:15 am

    The public can attend an in-person debate between the three candidates for mayor from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 9, at the Auburn Senior Center.

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    Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus is running for her third term in office. Courtesy photo.
    Meet Auburn’s mayoral candidates: Nancy Backus
    By Robert Whale • July 5, 2025 8:00 am

    The public can attend an in-person debate between the three candidates for mayor from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 9, at the Auburn Senior Center.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
    The not-so-obvious beauty of vintage films and stories...
    By Robert Whale • July 4, 2025 1:30 am

    Three or so years ago, I got into a conversation at a Starbucks with this young guy who swore he…

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