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'Tis the season of shopping and gratitude
It's Thanksgiving Eve and there are four categories of people today. Those who are traveling, those who are grocer…
MY TURN: About Regan's 'Fact Check'
I read Mr. Regan’s “Fact Check” opinion in Friday’s Coeur d'Alene Press. His life story is eerily similar to my own … without the wealthy parents’ part. I enjo…
Introducing the Exercise Explorer MD
“Yes, but what type of exercise should I try?” is a question I am asked on almost a daily basis by my patients. In my work as a physician at Ironwood Family Pr…
MY TURN: The tragedy at NIC
Thank you Tarie, Brad, Nick, and SaveNIC. On April 28, 2022, Ken Howard and I resigned from the NIC Board of Trustees after many years of service. It was a dif…
OPINION: Make informed choices, read the party platforms
One remarkable function of these weekly columns has been showing voters that they have a choice when it comes to politics. As the loyal opposition up north, we…
Move over June, September now month for nuptials
According to The Knot, September is the most popular month for weddings, with October coming a close second.
MY TURN: Thank you to Cd'A Basin community
Just a note to say thank you to the Coeur d’Alene Basin Community for the opportunity I have had to serve them as Executive Director of the Coeur d'Alene Basin Environmental Improvement Project Commission (BEIPC). …
Do I know you?
When prescient science fiction and reality start to blend, it really makes you think.
It's another active tropical storm and hurricane season
We’ve reached the peak of the tropical storm and hurricane season and it’s already going to be another memorable year.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Awakened to the dangers of white supremacy
I missed the commotion that day. And it has bugged me since.
MY TURN: Mammoths and Extinct Megafaunas: Climate change or man
Mammoths were not the only megafauna that went extinct at the end of the Great Ice Age (Pleistocene). Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared, including mastodons, woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk…
MY TURN: Maybe the 'bad guys' are really the 'good guys'
Rumors and misinformation often align with group affiliations. Zeke Winchestor’s letter may be an example. He says the bad guys on the board at NIC are ‘the majority’ because they hired the wrong attorney. Newcomer…
OPINION: Leadership choices as bad as they can get
Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher is a self-described optimist, but he has trouble putting a smiley face to what he’s seeing on the national level.
OPINION: Fact check
"The mission of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) is to enhance freedom and prosperity by promoting fiscally and socially conservative c…
OPINION: No more educational chaos, please
Chaos might be fun for a while, but North Idaho has had enough. As Kootenai County kids go back to school, we are all ready for normalcy, consistency, and rout…
Precious cargo in big yellow buses
Here’s a collective Good Sport Award to the hundreds of kids, from kindergartners to seniors in high school, who let their parents take first day of school pho…