Oh what stories Orville Moe might have wanted to share

Now there’s one less item on the always seemingly endless to-do list.

While I should be happy, the opposite is true and I am kicking myself for being such a procrastinator.

Over the many years in this writing and reporting business I’ve had the opportunities to interview many a memorable individual, and had another on the list.

But Orville Moe, the cantankerous and colorful curmudgeon who raised the money to build, and later operated Spokane Raceway Park for the better part of 40 years, passed away a week ago today, April 9, at age 78.

Not long ago, in answer to an old-fashioned letter I had s...