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Updated 1 day, 15 hours ago

To smile or not to smile

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
It's a dog's life for 2018

Xin nian kuai-le (“sheen neeahn kwai luh”)!

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Question is, do you feel safe?

Are crime statistics bad in Kootenai County?

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Celebrate love every day, not just Feb. 14

My first Valentine was my dad, and throughout my life, he never failed to give a card or candy to his daughters. There were the pretty decorated Valentine shoe boxes in elementary school — where classmates had grea…

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Galileo was right

Carrie: For the second year in a row, the Idaho House of Representatives Education Committee has altered the proposed science standards for public schools by removing some of the language linking human activity to …

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Have you snogged your lover today?

Let’s do this together.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Skip the skins, Valentine

You don’t see such scenes in modern cartoons anymore, but those of us above a certain age may remember the images. Amorous caveman with big stick hits cavewoman — zonk — and drags his conquest to his cave, probably…

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Drought becoming a concern across parts of the U.S. and Canada

Officially, we’re more than halfway through the winter season, and many are hearing that the “winter is about over.” We’re coming into the middle of February, …

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
A case for female leadership

Please stick with me through some numbers today, just so we can get to a pretty important thought.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Sexual harassment a serious issue

A Letter to Mr. Cameron:

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Sometimes, that Apple really is rotten, folks

This is a complicated one; that’s what makes it so dangerous.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Stressed? Don't take it seriously

Gifted with a wise and life-embracing mother-in-law who turned 90 last week, I asked mine her secret to a long and satisfying life.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Cd'A Casino strategy is on the money

There’s simply no way Americans are doing less gambling these days.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Friends and foes of Sears assault Bill's eyes, ears

We have a GREAT consumer community here. By the end of the day Monday, I had received more than 30 calls from consumers telling me about their experiences with Sears warranty services, some very good, and some very…

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
On (fairly) firm financial ground

Surely, most Idahoans retain a vivid memory of the recession that crippled the nation just a decade ago.

Updated 8 years, 8 months ago
Owning creativity is to embrace fear

Recently I read a quote from screenwriter Steven Pressfield that resonated: “If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends) ‘Am I a writer? Am I really an artist?’ chances are, you are. The counterfeit inn…