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Articles by Robert Whale
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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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.
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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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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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Here’s a theory on why people embrace all...
By Robert Whale • May 14, 2022 5:30 am

Not so long ago, one could have called me a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core skeptic about cryptids.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Never miss a chance to treasure your mama...
By Robert Whale • May 7, 2022 5:30 am

With the approach of Mother’s Day, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own mother, gone 16 years ago…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Could we pull together like the Ukrainians are...
By Robert Whale • April 14, 2022 3:04 pm

The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Music at the intersection of past and present...
By Robert Whale • March 11, 2022 11:35 am

It is a July day in 1969, and I am with my family at Lake Surprise. I have just finished…

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com
Watching the social media and cable news train...
By Robert Whale • March 5, 2022 5:30 am

To say that anything is possible is to condition the sinister, pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous.

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Robert Whale can be reached at rwhale@soundpublishing.com.
Writer goes on a tear about flabby language...
By Robert Whale • February 18, 2022 3:00 pm

Those who know me know me know I’m a bit of a stickler about language.

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  • Audit finds accountability issues in King County’s equity and social justices programs
  • Schools, housing, salaries score big in Senate Dems $70B budget
  • Clear communication vs. sticking your head in the oven | Whale’s Tales
  • New forecast show state revenues won’t be quite as robust as expected
  • Frozen organic strawberries and a tropical fruit blend recalled because of Hepatitis A risk

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