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    Auburn Police Department Assistant Chief Sam Betz speaks to the judge during Jeffrey Nelson’s sentencing hearing Jan. 23. Photo by Joshua Solorzano/Sound Publishing.
    Trial shows that Auburn’s taxpayers deserve better |...
    February 4, 2025 12:54 pm

    So many signs pointed to a broken culture in the Auburn Police Department, and yet it does not appear that any meaningful corrective action was taken, the authors say.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at robert.whale@auburn-reporter.com.
    Spreading the word about unnecessary language | Whale’s...
    By Robert Whale • January 31, 2025 9:30 am

    I’ve written a lot about English here, so I can only hope I haven’t made a butt of myself rattling…

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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.
    LA’s wildfires must spark change in our neck...
    January 30, 2025 2:15 pm

    The hurricane-force winds fueling fast-moving Southern California wildfires have exasperated firefighters in western states for over a century. They quickly…

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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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