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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Here’s what communist and totalitarian trials really look...
    By Robert Whale • April 14, 2023 1:30 am

    In the 1968 film “Oliver!,” the murderous Bill Sykes’ doomed lover, Nancy, leads pub revelers in a round of “Oom…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Clear communication vs. sticking your head in the...
    By Robert Whale • March 24, 2023 1:30 am

    As I have written before in this column, I am a word person.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Victim energy is a siren song to which...
    By Robert Whale • March 3, 2023 1:30 am

    We find them everywhere we turn.

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    Photos by Robert Whale, Auburn Reporter
Colie Brooks at work learning how to integrate wing flaps into her landing procedure on a simulator at the GRC Aviation Center.
    Careers take flight at Green River College’s aviation...
    By Robert Whale • February 4, 2023 5:30 am

    For much of the flight from the Renton Airport over South King County and back early Friday afternoon, Jan. 27,…

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    Robert Whale
    A better life comes from learning to distinguish...
    By Robert Whale • January 25, 2023 7:30 am

    One night in 2016, my wife, Ann, and I were cruising through the vegetable aisle of a local supermarket when…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    ‘I must have driven through a barn’ and...
    By Robert Whale • January 6, 2023 11:45 am

    My brother, Jack, and I were jabbering on Christmas Eve about all the things we’ve done in our lives that…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    When old age asks the new year for...
    By Robert Whale • December 31, 2022 5:30 am

    One of the important lessons the dawning of each new year has taught me is the futility of making New…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Remembering the joys of Christmas with the family...
    By Robert Whale • December 24, 2022 5:30 am

    I remember fondly the build-up to Christmas in the Whale home of my childhood.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Looking at common civility through the rearview mirror...
    By Robert Whale • December 10, 2022 5:30 am

    What madness overtakes otherwise decent people when they get behind the wheel of a car?

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Thanksgiving and the Whale kitchen’s eternal warmth |...
    By Robert Whale • November 20, 2022 5:30 am

    Looking today at the North Auburn home in which I grew up fills me with wonder.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    The ‘ignoranting’ of Americans in the age of...
    By Robert Whale • November 12, 2022 5:30 am

    Many sweeping generalizations stalk our land today, making no distinctions between diverse people and institutions, but lumping them into one…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    The cost we pay for having a marketplace...
    By Robert Whale • October 21, 2022 10:40 am

    Ah, the internet, the internet, let us count the many blessings of the internet.

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    When weird fascinations collide with the power of insight | Whale’s Tales
    When weird fascinations collide with the power of...
    By Robert Whale • October 15, 2022 7:00 am

    I must have been about 9 years old when I started to do this weird thing.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    We all need to acknowledge the devils in...
    By Robert Whale • September 16, 2022 1:30 pm

    I read somewhere years ago — I have forgotten where — that if a person cannot relish the puncturing of…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    My fellow Americans, we need a political middle...
    By Robert Whale • July 29, 2022 5:30 am

    For the poor beleaguered voter in the coming elections, I offer this piece of advice — beware of the stealth…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    There’s nothing partisan about recognizing the truth |...
    By Robert Whale • July 22, 2022 5:30 am

    Nobody cares. Nobody is watching.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Here’s the supreme irony behind so-called states’ rights...
    By Robert Whale • July 16, 2022 5:30 am

    Many crack-brained ideas are riding the winds in this country, noxious seeds bound for the ears of sympathetic legislators.

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    To prevent future violence, we need to learn what’s in us | Whale’s Tales
    To prevent future violence, we need to learn...
    By Robert Whale • July 2, 2022 5:30 am

    Fresh pools of blood, tears and fury.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Seems we didn’t see what we saw, or...
    By Robert Whale • June 22, 2022 8:30 am

    Like others lately, I have been avidly following the Jan. 6 Committee’s hearings into the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    So much in me, good and bad, I...
    By Robert Whale • June 18, 2022 6:30 am

    This Sunday, like many folks across this nation will do and each in their own way, I will remember my…

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    Police lines set up outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (Public domain photo courtesy of VOA/Wikipedia)
    The search for common ground in our national...
    By Robert Whale • June 10, 2022 10:47 am

    Late last month, a small Texas city joined an ever-expanding list of cities and sites that none of them ever…

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    The frustrating clash between reality and conspiracies |...
    By Robert Whale • June 4, 2022 11:30 am

    I have thinking lately about goofy, patently absurd notions.

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    Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
    Roe v. Wade and the road we have...
    By Robert Whale • May 20, 2022 5:30 am

    I have been thinking a lot lately about the Prohibition Era in the United States and the fiery, brook-no-argument crusaders…

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