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Cheers to healthy communication
Dear Howard Harder and Dale Hedman,
MAIN STREET: Mentors can change a child's world
I love backstories and when I heard this one last week, knew it was worth sharing.
Think your vote really matters?
First, kudos to Chris Walsh for his time, effort and expense of Sunday’s part one of three papers on Donald Trump and America., I can’t wait for parts 2 and 3.
Trump violates fundamental principle of democracy
Last January, before the first primaries and caucuses, I predicted in a luncheon talk before the Idaho Falls Rotary Club, that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would become the candidates of their respective partie…
Stress and dreams
Last night, while walking through the halls of my school, I noticed a small light coming from a slightly open door. Peeking into the room, I am greeted with the instantaneous laughter of 30 fourth-grade students, p…
Balanced reporting might be false
Too much of a good thing creates an imbalance, including balance. Ironic as it sounds, even when balanced reporting is the objective, too much balance can have the opposite effect. This phenomenon, increasingly spo…
It may be more of a 'La Nada' than a 'La Nina' this fall season
Last week, I talked about the chances for freezes in the Coeur d’Alene area. Temperatures last Monday and Tuesday dropped into the 30s around the Lake City, but frosts and freezes were reported from Rathdrum and At…
Thanks, Cd'A friends of the humanities
On Sept. 8, the Idaho Humanities Council hosted a sold-out dinner and lecture at The Coeur d’Alene Resort by Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Dori…
Pay off the urban renewal roadblock
The Coeur d’Alene urban renewal agency is trying to pull a fast one on the public (and waste tax money) by “refinancing” the $8.7 million Washington Trust bond…
Trolls thrive in social media
We are getting meaner.
America: divided against itself
There was a time when we were "One nation, under God, indivisible"; a time in our recent history when we relied on God and were indeed indivisible. We may have differed in our opinions but we respected one another.
It takes a village to write this column
For the past week I’ve been dogged by a bad cold that sent me to bed for a few days and left me tired and under a self-imposed exile from being out and about much. So on Monday evening I made this post on my Facebo…
Discussion of students, homework
I’ve worked in education since 1996 and from my first classroom to today, the discussion of homework is forefront in the conversation of a quality education. To offer homework, no homework, grade homework or requir…
Idaho is happy to be No. 6
If better work environments, great weather and high volunteerism equate to happiness, then Idaho is practically beaming. According to WalletHub’s overall ranking of happiest states, Idaho is No. 6.
Talkin' first freeze and Indian summer
Rain showers returned to North Idaho during our “new moon” cycle in early September. Temperatures were also quite chilly as highs were only in the upper 50s last Tuesday. Ten days prior, on Aug. 29, our high was a …