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Zero tolerance policies
Zero-tolerance expulsion policies in schools are seen by some as an extreme yet understandable policy response to the post-Columbine realities of today. Have zero-tolerance expulsion policies resulted in commonly a…
Fear bigger threat than uranium
There's something anyone trying to fully analyze the situation with Iran has to understand about that government. For centuries, it has been trying to reinflate. Persians (who prefer to be identified by their cultu…
I've discovered the true art of measuring snow
I've had many Press subscribers ask me recently to explain just how I measure the snowfall at my location on Player Drive in the northwestern corner of Coeur d'Alene. They also ask me why I seem to gauge more snow …
People make the difference
As Mother Nature struggles to figure out just what she wants to do with the remaining days on winter's calendar, we at North Idaho College have no difficulty in knowing what to do.
When we have eggs, we don't say chicken
I enjoyed reading Dr. StormoGipson's recent "My Turn" column. It was well written with many interesting points.
Statewide effort will boost education
The goal of our school district - our dream - is that all students succeed. For this to happen, we must accept the inevitability of and embrace change as a positive force in the classroom.
Words should unite, not divide
At a time when our state is beginning to recover from a long and difficult recession, our focus must be on how to work together to capitalize on Idaho's strengths and position ourselves to benefit from a stronger e…
Time's trek from sun to atom
What time is it?
A good guy calls it a career
Gary Dagastine is sporting the short-timer's glow today, his last day on the job after more than three decades with the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department. Don't look for this retired guy on a porch swing or at t…
Dieting with dignity
Often I am asked, "What is the best way to lose weight?" Being a psychotherapist, educator and Executive Chef places me in a unique position to understand food and one's motivation to eat, over-eat or have an eatin…
Why 'leap' when we just add?
"Leap" is a lot easier to say than are bisextile and intercalary, a.k.a. Feb. 29. Still, I've never understood why we say "leap," implying something skipped over, when we're adding a day. So I began a look at leap …
Big Brother is more than just bad TV
Government becoming too involved in our daily lives
Turkey, Afghanistan and northwestern China now feeling the brunt of Old Man Winter
The record cold spell in Europe, the worst in some areas since the middle of the 'Little Ice Age' in the 1600s, has pushed off to the southeast into Turkey, Afghan-istan and northwestern China.
Can't take the GOP any more
I have just made a personal donation to the Re-elect President Obama campaign, which, in this economy, I can ill afford. I felt compelled to do so because of the ridiculous assertions made lately by the GOP preside…
Here's why Santorum is wrong
Life does NOT begin at conception. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum likes to say that he doesn't BELIEVE that life begins at conception - he KNOWS it begins at conception. And his radical view on this and on co…