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Skybox swan song brings nostalgia
A dozen years ago, when I was doing morning radio on KVNI, I accepted the invitation by the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce to announce the Fourth of July pa…
Will this drug cure cancer?
It’s early days yet, but a small clinical trial at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has produced shockingly hopeful results: All 18 patients c…
Is La Nina officially over?
After the coolest spring season on record in Coeur d’Alene and other parts of the Inland Northwest, we finally had our first 80-degree day as the mercury hit 8…
Huckleberries
Huckleberries
Does history repeat itself?
Our founders took to heart the warning of Aristotle, how instability is brought about by inequality. They also recognized, as Plato stressed, tyrants will use …
OPINION: Minidoka reminds us to remain vigilant against racial injustice
The camp was one of 10 established in the Western states in 1942 to imprison Japanese Americans.
OPINION: But the levy was dry
Coeur d'Alene School District will ask voters, through an Aug. 30 levy, for additional monies for ailing facilities.
OPINION: Delegation won’t follow Cheney’s lead
Idaho delegation is not about to side with Cheney, or Democrats who spent four years trying to figure out how to remove Trump from office.
OP-ED: Rational Gun Policy
Recent proposals won't work; here's what will
Insurrection, a different view
Time to start working together constructively
OPINION: A woman of her time
Patricia Ann was a woman of her time. Conceived before the Japanese Sneak Attack on Pearl Harbor, she was born 80 years ago next month, between the Battles of …
Road tripping nets new friendship
Ever see those old movies with folks talking to strangers on a walkie talkie or CB radio — “Breaker one-niner, breaker one-niner, this is Road Hog. Over.”?
Insurrection misdirection
Misinformation or disinformation? You decide.
My Turn: Dems remain optimistic about future of democracy
More about Jan. 6
A tale of two very different years
A look back to the merry month of June 2021 offers quite the comparison weather-wise to the sixth month of this year.