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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Oh, the things we say, but shouldn’t |...
By Robert Whale • January 27, 2025 12:00 pm

So many of my father’s advices, as he actually said them, I did not take.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Let’s stop using tragedies for political points |...
By Robert Whale • January 17, 2025 7:30 am

These should not be partisan issues, but that’s what they’ve become.

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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 10, 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.
A few thoughts on those ‘cultural elites’ |...
By Robert Whale • January 1, 2025 9:30 am

It stuns me how often we are guilty of doing the very thing we complain about and despise in others when they do it, but excuse it in ourselves.

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Sometimes the goofy stuff is good enough |...
By Robert Whale • December 25, 2024 11:30 am

The authors of “Un novo guia conversação em portuguez e inglez” (“A new guide for conversation in Portugese and English”) meant it to be a serious work.

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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 20, 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.
It’s tough being a pint-sized, bony geek among...
By Robert Whale • December 13, 2024 11:30 am

When I was a kid, a dude two or three years older and bigger than I was might as well…

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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 6, 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@auburn-reporter.com.
The dangers of unchecked power in one person’s...
By Robert Whale • November 29, 2024 7:30 am

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

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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.
Civility is essential to governing America | Brunell
November 23, 2024 2:15 pm

After years of odious political behavior, it is time for elected officials to focus on governing our nation with civility…

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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 22, 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.
Election reveals a deeper cause of our national...
By Robert Whale • November 15, 2024 11:30 am

“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when he starts hating the same people you do.”

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Let’s dive into a timeless treasure trove of...
By Robert Whale • November 8, 2024 1:30 am

Watching the 8mm Whale family films my dad shot when we were kids on the old Kodak takes me back…

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@soundpublishing.com.
Here’s hoping for peace and harmony to return...
By Robert Whale • November 1, 2024 7:30 am

As the late comedian and famed cynic George Carlin once said in another context: “People would have to be asleep to believe it.”

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
The long-lasting impact of a parent’s words |...
By Robert Whale • October 25, 2024 1:30 am

Why, oh why, do parents do this to the children they profess to love?

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Take a page out of my book and...
By Robert Whale • October 18, 2024 1:30 am

When Reporter editor Andy Hobbs and I first discussed this column three years ago, we talked about making it an…

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Combing through this current follicle challenge | Whale’s...
By Robert Whale • October 11, 2024 7:30 am

I feared the day when passersby on the streets would start in with, “Hey, get a look at Uncle Fester there!” or “What’s cookin’, Kojak?!”

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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
Behind the scenes in the quest for fame...
By Robert Whale • October 4, 2024 6:30 am

I watched a documentary 15 years ago in which a reporter asked a group of kids what they wanted to…

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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 • September 27, 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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Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
When your mind wanders into heavy traffic |...
By Robert Whale • September 20, 2024 1:30 am

Before I even set out from my chemotherapy and radiation treatment in Puyallup on Monday to the office in Sumner,…

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