STOP STEREOTYPING: 30 local insects who never murdered anybody
By Daniel Walters
They have flaws. They’re no angels. But before you start wildly accusing these local insects of being murder hornets, take some time to understand where they come from and what they've been through.
![EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW, 1995
Walter's nonfiction book about the Ruby Ridge standoff between Randy Weaver's family and the federal government.
I really challenged myself to write with the neutrality of a reporter. I was at the [Spokesman-Review] when Ruby Ridge happened. Covered it. Researched how the Weavers arrived at that, researched how the government messed it up, covered the trial and then tried to sell a book for about a year and a half, then took a sabbatical to work on the book, then finally sold it. That would have been the spring of '95 and it came out in the summer of '95. So I sold it, wrote it, and it came out in just this incredibly fast amount of time. I'm weirdly proud of it, although it feels like a different person. A really young, idealistic journalist. I didn't sleep. I used to have a trampoline in the backyard, and I would go to Java Junkies, which was one of the first espresso places, and get what they called a Buzz Bomb. At midnight, to keep working, I would get a Buzz Bomb and do flips just to keep myself working because I knew my deadline was soon. And I didn't know then that you could miss a book deadline. For my book tour, I started on Nightline, Good Morning America. Flew to New York, and I'd never been east of Wyoming. It was so surreal.](https://media1.fdncms.com/inlander/imager/u/r-bigsquare/20449423/every_knee_shall_bow.jpg?cb=1603319231)
