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Smile, you may be on CCTV
Is Big Brother watching you?
Study may surprise you on religion
Pew Research statistics on religious affiliations have typically categorized Americans by church-specific affiliations. Christian or Buddhist, Catholic or Protestant, unaffiliated or agnostic, and so on.
Small businesses make big targets
A local business got a decent-sized order for its product from a company in a Middle Eastern country. The name of the country is not important. What IS important is that orders from any foreign country, particularl…
Flag planting an important part of moon landing
“I think (the Moon Landing) was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement and that’s how we chose to view it” says everyone who isn’t an American.
Scratching that coffee-after-dark itch
If you’re a true coffee junkie, you may not have noticed or cared that Starbucks raised prices at most outlets this summer.
First day of school photos run the gamut
Here’s a group Good Sport Award to the hundreds of kids, from kindergartners to seniors in high school, who let their parents take first day of school photos on Tuesday to post on Facebook. A longtime empty nester,…
Free money? Lawsuit dishes it out
Oh, so it’s Wednesday.
Jockey hopes voters back Proposition 1
First of a two-part series on Proposition 1.
Send Miss Montana to Normandy
She may not have an hourglass figure (think heavy, loud, no-frills), but she’s a true beauty in the eyes of these flyboys.
As scams go, this is one of the breast
Katherine called me the other day from an outfit named the American Breast Cancer Support Association. She was soliciting donations. They were calling using a 208 area code. When I asked her where she was really ca…
Autumn means moisture headed our way
A storm system finally moved into the region on Sunday, Aug. 26 and Monday, Aug. 27, that produced 0.61 inches of rain at Cliff’s station in Coeur d’Alene. The last time we had any significant moisture in Coeur d’A…
Honk if traffic drives you crazy
Sure, you can spot growth in Kootenai County just by following various developments in the news.
Kootenai County growing (and graying)
It’s almost an obligation around here to laugh about all our California immigrants.
Parents, consider this alarming data
“Oh, isn’t that being far too strict?”
Getting sick over prescription recalls
Some “lots” of a commonly prescribed medicine, effective in treating high blood pressure, are being recalled by the FDA. This recall is for the drug Hydrochorothiazide, in 12.5 mg tablets.