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Text turns 20; what's next?
Happy birthday, Text Message.
The chances for a white Christmas in North Idaho are near 80 percent
Randy and I issued our chances locally, nationally and globally for a brilliant WHITE CHRISTMAS in 2012 after the world 'supposedly' ends on Dec. 21, according to the Mayan calendar. We've included a U.S. map detai…
Big Government on runaway path
After World War II the U.S. Government wanted to protect our country from further attacks. One finding, learned from the Japanese, was an armed citizenry is the best deterrent . The Japanese stated the one big reas…
Economic impact of public art
I've always believed strongly that public art can be held high as an economic development tool in so many ways. It attracts attention and appreciation, creates a forward-thinking mentality for a community and can p…
The case for Idaho health exchange
An important deadline is looming for Idahoans when it comes to determining what they want and what is available to them for health insurance. A key provision of the new health care law is the formation of health in…
County, don't tamper with building fees table
A friend recently told me the county building fees had been raised. I didn't see how this could be right because the state law authorizing the collection of building fees requires that an increase of over 5 percent…
Sugar: Still the real thing, baby
Due to recent influences of a fitness-obsessed son, we're trying something new in this house: Coconut flour. OK, so it's not really about the flour. Nor is it the absence of that fresh wheat bread whose soft and sa…
Bidding a fond adieu to Pocatello
Having recently married a feisty woman and moved to Coeur d'Alene, another beautiful spot in Idaho (I will never leave Idaho), I find myself reflecting on what it is that makes Pocatello so special to me and one of…
A helping hand
Christmas letters: A thing of the past?
The real world changes liberals to conservatives
Our nation is in political gridlock, and the Conservatives in the Republican Party are to blame. The nation is near perfectly divided; cleaved into two schools: Progressive and Conservative. The Progressives advoca…
Co-ops put democracy to work
Who thinks about electricity, really? Flip a switch and "home" takes on a cozy glow. Maybe power gets another thought when the monthly bill arrives, but otherwise it's taken for granted. Even less likely to get att…
GOP: You're 0-for-2
Oh my, the flags are flyin' upside down, and the Obama effigies once again are hangin' high in the trees. Yes sir, the Republican brotherhood of Idaho's most eloquent idiots are teaching by example on how to be a p…
A post-election love story
I read that in the wake of the recent presidential election, 70,000 Texans signed a petition for secession from the Union. For a man descended from generations of Republicans the re-appearance of secessionist senti…
Thanksgiving guilt: Pay it forward
A hot shower. A down comforter. A pantry full of food and the reaction, "There's nothing to eat."
America: Get out onto open waters
America has historically been the place where only the terms "hope," "optimism," and "impossible dreams" matter. However, over the last half-century we have become divided by the skewed definitions of the words "co…