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May Day is all but forgotten
Like so many holidays - be they revered or nearly forgotten - May Day has pagan roots reaching back to the ancient Celts. For Druids, May 1, or the festival of Beltane, was one of the two most important holidays of…
Iconic business celebrates milestone
The oldest continuously operating business in Post Falls is celebrating its 80th anniversary on Saturday. Curtis Chase opened The Slab Inn in 1934, not long after the end of Prohibition, when Post Falls' population…
Succeeding with the use of your creative thinking
Imagine it is an incredibly stormy night, the wind howling, the temperatures dropping, the rain and sleet coming in torrents as the sky darkens more with the passing of each hour. As you edge your way home from a l…
Bored in school
My ears perk as I hear a 17-year-old girl say, "It was boring. That's why I begged my mom to homeschool me," speaking to her same-aged boyfriend. Having time to kill as my take-and-bake pizza is being made, I slide…
'Make them visible'
Some people are invisible.
2014 should be an 'active' hurricane season
Randy Mann and I see a rather 'active' hurricane and tropical storm season this year, very similar to the 2010-2012 seasons when there were 19 named storms each year. Last year, in 2013, we had a near-normal 16 nam…
Military getting better weapons
The April edition of the American Legion magazine had a couple of news articles worthy of passing along. In Air Force news, 72 Lockheed Martin F-35A fighters will be delivered to Hill Air Force base in Utah. The fi…
Today - Arbor Day - my vote is for trees
I've spent more than 40 years working for the great state Idaho. After all this time, I continue to be amazed by our tremendous natural resources and all they do for the state.
The best-kept secret in robotics: the kids!
North Idaho, from Coeur d'Alene to Bonners Ferry, is the home of three high school and six middle school robotics teams. You heard that right, we have teens an…
Parkinson's is easily misdiagnosed
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system characterized by a loss of dopamine cells in the brain. Dopamine forwards neural signals in the brain, so when these cells die (60 to…
Choose free market over Obamacare
The upcoming primary election has stimulated much debate about the Idaho State Health Insurance Exchange. Proponents of the state exchange are fond of saying that 'Obamacare is the law of the land.' This begs the q…
Encouraging creative differences
A long time ago there lived an old farmer who had three sons. As he grew older and more frail, he knew it was time to pass along the farm to one of his sons, for it was not large enough to support all three of them…
Technology separating children from families
This past week I attended the Idaho State Prevention and Support Conference. The focus of this conference is to offer tools, resources and ideas for educators and law enforcement professionals to prevent destructiv…
It's easy to get hooked on rugby
Saturday afternoon, I watched my very first rugby game and I'm hooked.
Wanted: Political unity
Kellie Palm has written many columns in the Cd'A Press with deprecatory inferences concerning the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee. It has always been my belief that in order to maintain unity within a …