Articles written by Mike Huffman


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  • CMS and Westwood bands perform together

    Mike Huffman, Spokane Valley News Herald|Updated May 14, 2015

    The bands from both Cheney School District middle schools, Cheney and Westwood, combined to perform at last Saturday's Junior Lilac Parade in Spokane....

  • Banner Day

    Mike Huffman, Spokane Valley News Herald|Updated May 14, 2015

    Westwood Middle School student Kiearra O'Neal and the rest of her color guard and band members for Cheney and Westwood middle schools performed under perfect weather conditions at last Saturday's Spokane Junior Lilac Parade....

  • Electric footwear

    Mike Huffman, Spokane Valley News Herald|Updated May 16, 2013

    Whether her flashy socks helped or not, Cheney senior Janessa Day had a good time at last week’s District 7 track and field championships, winning the 200- and 400-meter dash titles and helping the 4x200 relay team to a championship as well....

  • Coal trains fire passionate debate at scoping hearing

    MIKE HUFFMAN, Spokane Valley News Herald|Updated Dec 13, 2012

    The Spokane County Fair and Expo Center was ground zero for a coal collision last week. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosted the public hearing Dec. 4 to receive testimony on the environmental impact statement on a proposed coal terminal that, if built, will be 370 miles away to the west. But Bellingham would be just one stop for an expected 54 million tons of coal that would come through on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe main rail line through Eastern Washington each...

  • Write to the Point- This ain't the summer of love

    Mike Huffman

    This ain't the Garden of Eden There ain't no angels above And things ain't like what they used to be And this ain't the summer of love  Blue Oyster Cult Like all good fans of rock ‘n' roll, I have my requisite copy of The Beatles' “Sgt. Pepper.” Not on vinyl, of course, but on CD. I also have The Doors' first album, along with Pink Floyd's “Piper at the Gates of Dawn.” While I don't own Jefferson Airplane's “Surrealistic Pillow,” I do have a decent compilation that features “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love...

  • Cheney Celts

    Mike Huffman

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  • Write to the Point- Oscars deathly boring, but Scorsese scores

    Mike Huffman

    I'm not sure when, exactly, I started to loathe Oscar night. I'm positive it was somewhere in the ‘90s when Billy Crystal or Whoopi Goldberg would host. They, along with Robin Williams, form an unholy trinity of “comedy” that, sometime starting in the late ‘80s during their creative nadir, made lame-o's like Andrew “Dice” Clay and Emo Phillips seem edgy and relevant. Oh, the idea of the Oscars is fine: Those in the biz vote for great achievements in acting, cinematography, direction, animation, etc. Humans are a competitive... Full story