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Loss of longtime givers will be felt
On Saturday at a celebration of life for Bert Brothers, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 83, I visited with some of the newer members of the Post Falls Lions Club who hadn’t known him. Bert was a 50-…
If you have love, you've got everything
Love is the mainspring that keeps our clocks ticking. When you’re young it runs too fast and then in a heartbeat you’re my age and happy it’s running at all.
Is Data flipping your hamburger?
With a growing population of California transplants in North Idaho, CaliBurger should be a familiar fast food chain. How about Flippy? If you’ve been to a Pasadena location recently, odds are he flipped your burger…
The contract always wins
A couple called me about a moving experience.
NASA's new satellites providing more data
In November of 2017, NASA launched its newest polar orbital JPSS-1 weather satellite, which has been renamed NOAA-20. Since that time, the satellite has been declared fully operational by the National Oceanic and A…
From soybeans to spuds, let's chat
Hopefully, you’re reading the editorials running this week about how newspaper readers and journalists tend to speak different languages.
Truckers speed to front of job line
Let’s start with some honesty.
Don't tell Betsy Russell that newspapers are dead
Betsy Russell has seen just about everything in her long career covering Idaho politics, so there isn’t much that surprises her.
Chats, cats, wrinkles and roads
Yes, it’s Chat Day and …
Even smart people aren't scam-proof
A local consumer’s peaceful Father’s Day afternoon was shattered as he was working on his computer. A pop-up informed him that his computer was infected with malware and all of his information was in the process of…
Minimum wage, rent incompatible, study says
How many hours would the average minimum wage worker (at the federal hourly rate of $7.25) need to work each week to afford a modest two-bedroom apartment in this country? According to the latest study, 122.
Infusion of perspective good for the soul
“When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the pen.” I think I’ve been doing just that in 2018 and it’s time for me to take my pen back.
Avista sale: Nationalist outcry a little late
Whoa, there!
To merge or not? That's the question
Don’t look now but a huge fly just landed in the middle of the mud that has dogged Avista Utilities’ proposed sale to the Canadian-owned and operated HydroOne headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
Lao Tzu's four rules for living
Lao Tzu (Lao Tse or Laozi) was an ancient Chinese philosopher and founder of Taoism. Said to be a contemporary of Confucius around 550 B.C.E., in his book “Tao Te Ching” he described four cardinal virtues which, wh…