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Local News - Local News - February 28, 2013
Poor leadership creates challenge

Editor's Notebook
Linn Parish

It's easy enough to come down hard on Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan for putting his name to a fundraising letter that called Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee a "lying whore." Everybody from his fellow city council members to Spokesman-Review funnyman Doug Clark has taken their hacks at Fagan for this error in judgment.

For the business community, however, it's important to determine now how badly this well-publicized insult will affect our efforts in Olympia to get support fo...


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