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Summer theater must be accountable
I've listened to the recent dire cries for donations for CDA Summer Theatre, including those from Ellen Travolta and CST management in these pages. Personally and as a business owner, I have supported CST for over …
MLP: Orient your verbs
Now, loyal readers know Mrs. Language Person - that Snitty Old Bitty - has repeatedly resisted the persistently insistent ascendancy of the made-up word. Lo, though she religiously resists, English erodes under the…
Here comes the sun ... and the fair!
Considering the fact that I'll be visiting my 'Gems' readers once again in the Coeur d'Alene Press booth at the North Idaho Fair this Thursday between 4 and 6 p.m., it's probably a good idea to answer some question…
Forest Service plan preposterous
The Coeur d'Alene National Forest is the most heavily roaded and one of the most devastated of all the forests in the entire National Forest system, containing some 9,000 miles of logging roads - an average of 10 m…
Teachers, schools: Ask more of students
I agree with every point that Mr. Ruskovich made in his article on tips for parents, but the way he started the column made me apprehensive to read it.
Tips for college road trips
With our last one entering her senior year of high school, the family focus is on higher ed. It's a dizzying process, more so than in her parents' day. Beyond the barrage of unsolicited (and a few solicited) colleg…
A 'senior' teacher's tips for parents
As a new school year approaches with one public education issue after another, it seems parents might find it useful to put aside politics and focus on what their children really need to succeed in school - and I'm…
Main Street Birthdays August 14, 2013
Happy Birthday today to Dr. Erin Elliott, Lisa Hutcheson, Peter Faletto, Erin Reasor, Melinda Engel, Marla Lewis and Gene Mann. Tomorrow Chief Wayne Longo, Rick Currie, Anne Couser and Thomas Sorci are celebrating.…
Education News walks a fine line of credibility
Sen. Branden Durst's recent op-ed critiquing Superintendent Luna's "end around" the Idaho Legislature, and his subsequent analysis of GOP political genealogy, has merit, especially as it relates to a newly minted n…
Huckleberry tradition
"That is a great smell," I slowly and deliberately whisper to my wife while deeply engulfing my first whiff of huckleberry as we hike to our secret huckleberry patch. I'm not sure why I whisper. As most huckleberry…
When you're down, do
I borrowed this one from a better columnist than I: Harvey Mackay.
There have been many volcanic eruptions and periods of global cooling in the past 200 years
In answering a subscriber's question that I received this week, the largest volcanic eruption in modern times was Mt. Tambora in April of 1815 on Sumbawa, an island east of Bali in Indonesia. The blast was 10 times…
It's time to suspend Obama
When we lived in Detroit in 1944-48, I drove to graduate school through a part of town where manufacturing plants abounded. I had always believed in "Creation" until one night when I was awakened by a great explosi…
If you can't stand the heat . . .
It's very unfortunate that the climate has become such a political football. It does little good to participate in grade-school name-calling. (And yes, even some "greenies" like me drive a Hemi.)
Legal Aid: Now you can apply online
Why won't sharks attack lawyers? Professional courtesy.