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Inland Ale Works is a great brewery in Cheney, Washington. Established in a remodeled auto shop, the whole place is decorated with photos of old Spokane, Washington, breweries and horse-drawn wagons loaded with beer barrels. There are ads for Rainier, National Bohemian, and Golden Age beers. I was there on Saturday to talk to my […]

In American politics, the arc from City Hall to the Cabinet is one of the longest imaginable. Most politicians spend entire careers trying to travel it and never arrive. Dirk Kempthorne, the former Idaho governor, U.S. senator, and secretary of the interior who died April 24 in Boise at the age of 74, not only […]

The body of a Republican candidate for the Oklahoma Senate was discovered in a pickup truck in a wildlife preservation area in western Oklahoma on Thursday. Barry Christian, 54, was last seen in Sayre, Oklahoma, on Tuesday, according to reports. He did not show up for a scheduled meeting and was unresponsive to attempts to […]

In Minnesota, Anthony Stephen Israelson was found guilty of two misdemeanors for driving a school bus drunk. The case stemmed… The post Brickbat: Who's Gonna Drive You Home? appeared first on Reason.com.