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Wandering mind is no slacker
Job shadowing, a component of CHS senior projects, led today's young writer Jacob Smith to The Press. The following is Jake's work - and first published column in a daily journal.
Pike fishing
Two of my favorite life memories involve fishing - one with my parents and the other with my granddaughter. Water, wilderness and family ground me.
Everyone loves a parade!
A few days of sunshine and a little spring break action does wonders for shaking off the winter blues and seems the ideal time to talk about parade season. This will be my 23rd year to organize the Post Falls Days …
Immigration reform - A conservative approach
A consensus has been building about the need to reform and modernize our immigration system. While I am optimistic that Republicans, including "tea party" members, will support reform, it must be done right. We mus…
Drones turning civilian
Technology is only as limited as scientific imagination. Inventions to aid military purposes have long been adapted to civilian uses. British air tracking radar technology found its way into microwave ovens, U.S. n…
Republicans, Tea Party all a bunch of bullies
You Republicans or Tea Party or, as one of your own called you, "the stupid party," are a bunch of bullies. If you don't get your way, you start your name calling. Back in 2008, you called us left wing liberals, th…
Humanity must leave room for mystery
"Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day."
Coeur gives us the shuck and jive
Pure unadulterated balderdash. Pure B.S. That's the only way to describe the baloney Coeur - the Precious Metals Company - is serving up as its excuse for relocating its corporate headquarters from Coeur d'Alene to…
MLP: Jeers to pretenders
A poseur, a word of French origination around mid-19th century, is someone who pretends to be what he is not. A pretender; a fake. Something made-up.
Herbs a sure sign of spring
Red-brown buds begin to form on the Granny Smith apple tree in my backyard garden as violet crocus flowers peek from the soil. Moving aside the mulch used to contain the warmth and retain the soil in my garden bed,…
It's on the banks where life happens
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes,…
When depressed, simply do
Grandma's response to complaints was always the same: "When life gets tough, honey, make lemonade."
March 2013 has been unusually cold and snowy throughout the Northern Hemisphere
The past several winter seasons have been unusually cold and snowy across much of Europe into North Africa, where 'rare' mid March freezes killed vegetables and citrus in Morocco and also in southern Spain this pas…
Mucking out the memories
Thanks to a few very great friends, we got my parents' storage locker in Spokane mucked out on Sunday. It was snowing as we left Wallace, and blowing icy cold up on Spokane's South Hill.
There but for the grace of God ...
On a freezing dawn a couple of weeks ago, I wrenched my old body out of bed to attend a doctor's appointment in Hayden. After the task on the icy morning was accomplished, I stopped at a local drug retailer to purc…