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I'm predicting double the number of thunderstorms locally this spring and summer
On Friday, March 14, we had the loudest thunderstorm ever observed so early in the season in the Coeur d'Alene area and other parts of the so-called 'Inland Empire.'
Food is fuel, food drive kids remind us
Five hundred and six pounds of food, 101 families, 13 students and one food drive.
Women's rights at stake in Hobby Lobby case
Corporations do not pray, worship, participate in sacramental rituals or engage in other religiously-motivated programs or actions. Yet, this week three corporations, including the crafts store Hobby Lobby, were be…
The other side of 'switching sides'
I'd like to respond to the front page article, "Switching Sides," in The Press recently. The article documents the "tough decision" that Dan English felt he was forced to make, switching his political party affilia…
'Tough on crime' is tough on kids
For centuries humanity has recognized that all minds are not alike. What each is capable of understanding, and thus, acting upon with reasoned judgment, varies by wide margins. We don't hold someone with developmen…
Using words to separate
Leaving my home town, I enlisted in the United States Air Force. I worked on B1-B (Bomber 1, Model B) airplanes. On these planes I also worked on SRAM's (short range attack missiles) and ALCM's (air launch cruise m…
Let freedom ring at McEuen Park
On Veterans Day last year, the iconic Third Street bell was transported to the RD Rankin Veterans Memorial Plaza for the ceremony, having been removed during construction from the Third Street dock entrance, its ho…
Privacy: Snail mail best way to write
If you missed Sunday's edition of NBC's "Meet the Press" (as a print news junkie, I certainly did), you missed Jimmy Carter's NSA snub. Perhaps more to the point, his email snub. The former president - who is still…
Looking ahead to a warm spring, summer
Several Press subscribers asked me in recent days to detail our North Idaho weather prospects for the upcoming spring and summer months beginning on April 1 and ending on Sept. 30, 2014.
Guns on campus: What's next?
In 2012, a person wielding a crossbow went on the Casper (Wyoming) College campus and murdered his own father, a computer science professor, in front of the class. Previously, I had thought that Casper, which is ab…
Thanks, GOP, for galvanizing Democrats
As chair of the Kootenai County Central Committee, I am compelled to respond. The recent announcement by Larry Spencer to try to take over the Democratic Central Committee may indeed have a silver lining. Democrats…
Enemy of Education: Poverty
This is the story of how I believe our great state of Idaho can have better educational outcomes for the money that we invest. It is the story about how poverty limits the ability of youth to succeed in a quickly c…
OPINION: Yes, let the science stand
Regarding Howard Goldstein's opinion piece of Feb. 27 titled Let science, not politics determine wolves' fate; let me say I found it an example of "creative" writing at its "best."
MLP: Don your napron
Sigh. Your Mrs. Language Person, poor lamenting soul, is a dying breed. A horse beaten to a lifeless carcass, a discarded skin of a self-satisfied, slithering nadder.
St. Patrick's Day culinary traditions
"May the luck of the Irish be with ya," my father announces expecting me to offer the traditional response. Missing my cue, my dad repeats with a raised voice and thick, imitation Irish brogue, "May the luck of the…