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Creating a wonderful life through his artwork
Terry Lee ended 2018 with a blank canvas, and a big blank canvas it was — 6 feet wide and 9 feet tall. Two days after Christmas, Terry began to bring the canva…
Chewing the fat with today's chat
Yes, indeed, it’s Wednesday and we’ve come to another Chat Day.
MLP: Reflexive pronoun, spare thyself
Editor’s note: While Sholeh is recovering from a broken wrist, we revisit some of her favorite Mrs. Language Person columns.
Keep an eye on weather advisories, warnings
It was another interesting year weatherwise across North Idaho. Despite having one of the driest summer and early fall seasons for the second year in a row, our annual precipitation total of rain and melted snow en…
Eager drinker frothing at the mouth
So we were talking about coffee …
Religion, government not a new debate
As the editorial board of the Cd’A Press noted on Dec. 28, 2018, there is plenty of bickering about what the “Founding Fathers” meant when they wrote the Constitution, the Bill of Rights (especially the First Amend…
Medicaid expansion and your Legislature
The backslapping and hand shaking for a job well done is over.
Investors, listen to your wife
You walked into some Spokane financial office in mid-March of 2009.
Gone smishin': Put a hook in those rascals
With so many of us addicted to our cell phones, it’s no wonder there are reportedly 20 billion (yes with a “b”) text messages sent each day. This allows the swindlers more chances to defraud us through “smishing.”
Online reviews: Don't bet too much on them
If you’re deciding whether or not to give a new business or restaurant a try, checking out their online reviews seems like a prudent thing to do. But can you always believe what you read? Here’s a quick guide to sp…
Here's how to vote every day
Editor’s note: Sholeh is recovering from a broken wrist. While she’s healing, community members and some Mrs. Language Person oldies but goodies will fill in a…
Slip-sliding down several slopes
Perhaps I’ve mentioned something like this before, but I really kind of like winter in North Idaho.
Bring on the new year please!
I’m an admitted cock-eyed optimist by nature, but as 2018 ended I found myself looking back thinking, “What the heck was THAT?”
Resolve to just let it go
In most cultures, new year resolutions encourage fresh starts which are meant to last. Yet somehow, New Year’s Resolutions starting with a bang have a way of f…
Another year of extremes in 2018
It’s sounding like a broken record, but 2018 was another year of weather extremes across much of the U.S. and other parts of the world. And, with another El Nino brewing in the waters of the south-central Pacific O…