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Alaska Viking’s ‘Mooseltoe’
Americans in the 1960s and 1970s proved they were suckers for cute gimmicks before a Coeur d’Alene-born Alaskan be…
There was another big volcanic eruption earlier this month
As reported in previous articles, there are over 1,500 active volcanoes around the Earth with an average of 50-70 eruptions per year. According to VolcanoDisco…
Zany ballot casting
The number of dead people who vote in Coeur d’Alene is nowhere near as high as the regular turnout of the Dearly Departed in Chicago. But a few denizens of For…
MY TURN: Understanding the Nov. 3 school levy
On November 3, voters who live within our school district will consider a two-year replacement levy. I want to explain what the levy is, what it funds, and why…
OPINION - North Idaho College: A success worth celebrating
NIC’s comeback belongs to a community that refused to give up on its college.
MY TURN: Looking Inside Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This simple idea about AI isn't so simple to understand in practice.
OPINION: Where’s the beef, Senator Risch?
It must be election season again because I’m seeing many down-home TV ads of Jim Risch wearing his cowboy uniform and tossing hay to his cattle, as well as a b…
OPINION: The cure for absentee ballot confusion: Vote
Voting for better leadership is the only way out of this mess.
No hurricanes thus far in the Atlantic and Carribean waters
As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, we currently have a warmer than normal sea-surface temperature event, El Nino, in the south-central Pacific Ocean. Acco…
MY TURN: North Idaho deserves answers on the Panhandle Health District crisis
When a sitting board member becomes the administrator he is supposed to oversee, it blurs the line between governance and administration and leaves the public with questions unanswered.
OPINION: Local control and the balance of power
OPINION: Can a church really funnel dark money into the campaign against Prop 1?
Labrador’s opinion would subvert the very purpose of the Sunshine Act
From living memory into history
MY TURN: Idaho’s long-overdue approach to water management
We can protect our aquifers and rivers, maintain our agricultural economy, and keep our communities thriving; but it will take all of us, working together, tow…
MY TURN: Vote yes on November Prop 1 initiative
Let us agree that, when making life-changing choices, governments should not be trusted more than the woman, in consultation with her partner, her family, and her doctors, doulas and/or midwives.
OPINION: Elected to govern, not go viral
Campaigning rewards passion and the occasional well-placed sharp rhetorical elbow. Governing requires judgment, restraint, competence, and remembering that the…