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Snowbirds are onto something
Our neighbors are snowbirds, having enjoyed the past five months or so of fall and winter in the Arizona sunshine. I noticed their motorhome back in the neighborhood first thing Monday morning. Their timing for ret…
Could we see a 'monster' El Nino later this year?
It was another day of record-breaking moisture across North Idaho last Friday. A Pacific storm system brought more showers and even a few thunderstorms which a…
When friends can't even visit
Wanderlust is a natural human trait. Perhaps it’s an innate drive to expand knowledge and understanding — tools which optimize man’s power to control and thrive in his environment. Travel changes us, expanding our …
Why a dirty window is beautiful
In your Dec. 9, 2016, edition, there was a picture where “A bird leaves its mark Thursday on the window of 360 Fitness.” I was very sad to see the photograph. …
DIY project starts simple, expands
Late winter, early spring is shoulder season for those indoor DIY projects. In early March,
And the winners are
Jerry: It appears the Idaho Legislature has finished embarrassing us for another year.
Saving for college? Here's good news
Each year our 529 plan saves us about $500 in taxes. Now, thanks to a new law Gov. Otter signed on March 20, that deduction will be even higher.
It's been very extreme across the Inland Empire
It’s been amazing to see all the water across North Idaho and other parts of the Inland Northwest. People have been coming up to see and saying that they “have never seen anything like this.” Conditions in this par…
April Fools' Day
People around the world have been celebrating April Fools’ Day since 1369 when a friend of Chaucer’s heard him toying around with the notion of pulling merry pranks on April 1. This same pheasant, drunk on mead, sh…
Ahlquist adds spice, big bucks to race
The infamous “hole” that was a part of Boise’s downtown landscape for 25 years, doesn’t have much meaning to people living outside the city — especially to those who think of Boise as one big hole in the first plac…
Have you hugged a doc today?
It’s painful even to imagine what a patient’s experience of surgery must have been like before anesthesia. We take for granted the transformations of medicine, from the first documented use of general anesthesia in…
Wildlife Services a danger to animals
On March 16, 2017, a 14-year-old boy’s dog is killed by an m-44 cyanide gun while walking near his home in Pocatello, Idaho. The boy is hospitalized after wiping off the orange powdery substance from his clothing o…
Fandemonium sweeps the land of the Zags
It's not likely a couple of decades worth of readers would ever confuse me with a sports writer or sports expert or pundit. Watching Triple Crown horse races every year or enthusiastically cheering on Ironman compe…
Gorsuch's assurances to Senate likely to be tested upon confirmation
The sincerity of the assurances made by Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the course of confirmation hearings that the president “is not above the law,” is likely to be t…
Health care and the transfer of risk
Watching the current flap over health care generally, and health care insurance specifically, is interesting and frustrating. What seems to me to be missing is truth about both health care and health care insurance.