On Saturday Out There Monthly was awarded two Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards from Region 10 Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalism. OTM won 3rd Place for Consumer/Environmental Affairs for Alternative Weeklies for the Virginia de Leon’s piece “What Killed Wilcox Organic Milk?” In addition Out There Monthly won 1st place for Opinion Writing […]
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My four-year-old has graduated from trailer to trail-a-bike add-on tandem. She calls it her big girl bike. We never had any problems with it until this morning. We were at a stoplight on the up slope of a hill waiting for the light to change. It turned green. I pedaled forward. Bomp. Then loud crying.
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Here’s a few more pics from NASA’s June visit to the Moses Lake Sand Dunes ORV park–otherwise known as Space 1999 comes to Central Washington.
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This editorial appears in the July issue: Sidewalk bicycle riders: can we have a time-out? I know the weather is beautiful and you just want to ride, but why are downtown sidewalks your favorite place to ride? Sure, weaving around pedestrians can be a blast, but are the city streets that terrifying? Riding the sidewalk
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Our latest editorial has some folks rilled up, including reader Doug Kelley: Jon, You have got to be kidding, support? $6-8 million dollars for a track, then Brownfield clean up, then new water and sewer systems, then new bathrooms to meet ADA, then clean up old buildings and do some investment in the usable buildings.
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The new issue is out TODAY. Here’s a sneak peak at my editorial: MATT WIEBE WANTS TO dispel two bicycle sales myths: 1) That bicycle sales increase in a recession, 2) That high gas prices lead to increased bike sales. Wiebe is a staff writer for Bicycle Retailer magazine and in the last couple months
