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MLP: Resolving Fort Ground(s) dispute
Let it not be said your Mrs. Language Person rebukes requests.
Buckle up for ID changes
New TSA rules mean some travelers will need to change the form of ID they are using before they hop on a plane. I have always shown my driver’s license, but beginning Oct. 1, 2020, you’ll need a passport or a Globa…
Three decades plus three is a good run
Jan Lindquist is keeping the tissues handy at work this week. “I’m the kind of person who cries at commercials and for game show winners,” she said. After 33 years in the Kootenai County’s Assessor’s office her las…
A birthday important to every American
Due process. Equal protection. Citizenship.
Stuck on the auto-renewal merry-go-round?
Since writing about the need for laws prohibiting automatically renewing contracts, especially for items, services and subscriptions online, many customers have called me and reported that, after checking, they fou…
A hot and drier-than-normal July expected across the Northwest
Coeur d’Alene reached its first 90-degree day of the 2018 season. The thermometer hit 90 degrees on July 5 at 3:05 p.m. But temperatures continued to go up from there, as the high for the day was a toasty 92 degree…
Recession isn't over in North Idaho
Maybe you’ve never thought about it.
There's no room for fear
With the parade, the fireworks, the Fourth of July picnics, and all the celebration of our great nation and the freedoms we enjoy, perhaps there is also room f…
You might be an alien if
Have you ever felt like you don’t fit in? It doesn’t really matter if it’s because you came from the Andromeda galaxy or just another country. It’s a lonely feeling.
Six years of inaction have brought us to this
The Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Wayne Hoffman has an interesting solution for providing health care coverage to the working poor — and Medicare expansion is not it.
Why sale of Avista is cause for alarm
Steve Cameron’s column “Pull the plug on Avista merger hysteria” in the June 28 Cd’A Press was written in a vacuum and does not reference the facts of the issue. No one knows who the unlisted owners of Hydro One ar…
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Trust can land you in some hot water
A service person agreed to fix a consumer’s hot tub. The guy never showed up. I tried to contact him and he ignored me. It’s pretty obvious that our economy is zooming along, but there are some downsides to a great…
Happy birthday to 'simple' monk
The Dalai Lama, the ever-smiling sage, garbed simply in red and yellow and recognized across the globe, turns 83 this week. I wrote before about speaking with him once in a quiet garden, experiencing an unexpected …
Gaming is a whole new world
This feeling is based on just one evening.