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OPINION: Yes, workers can be hurt by a minimum wage hike
Raising the minimum wage is one of the many policy ideas peppered with tradeoffs, but one of the few that have such a direct impact on businesses and employees…
Game day food for the win!
Super Bowl Sunday is just a few days away.
Donate life, for David
Waste has become a national habit, but it should never cost a life.
MY TURN: Rampant, uncontrolled growth in Cd'A
Why is the Coeur d'Alene City Council insistent on sacrificing our neighborhood on the "altar of more dwelling units at all cost?"
AI to help improve weather forecasting
In recent decades, there have been a lot of progress with weather forecasting based on numerical predictions.
Huckleberries
Ron Hodge wishes, half in jest, that he had received a quarter each time he heard the bromide: “You’re lucky. Your customers don’t complain.”
OPINION: Dueling realities
Now more than ever it seems that two otherwise reasonable people can look at the same set of facts and arrive at two diametrically opposed viewpoints. Both can…
OPINION: A disheartening preview of coming attractions at the Statehouse theater
Based upon a preview of the coming attractions that will play at the Idaho Statehouse this legislative session, it appears there will be an excess of needless …
The secret to happiness? Connections
If you could design a happy life, what would it look like?
MY TURN: Why does the Post Falls School District need a voter-approved levy?
The Idaho funding system changed in 2006, leaving K-12 public schools with gaps in basic funding. Since the change, Post Falls School District has filled these…
OPINION: Political and cultural uniformity is an ugly goal
Maybe we’ve been looking at the turmoil at North Idaho College all wrong.
OPINION: Bedke: ‘I will not misuse the office’
A lieutenant governor strolling in to talk with the governor or chief of staff is hardly a shocking development — unless you consider how life was before forme…
OPINION: Fraudulent 'Freedom:' The IFF Files, Part 1
The Idaho Freedom Foundation started back in 2009 with the noble intention of helping beleaguered legislators who have little staff and even less time to resea…
Friendship, justice and the anchor desk
Prior to Jan. 24, 2018, I was acquainted with Amy Evans.
Here’s why accreditation matters
North Idaho College Interim President Greg South was in the state capitol Wednesday for Education Week, answering legislators’ questions about accreditation.