Occupy Wall Street should open our eyes

The Academy Award winning 1965 film "Dr. Zhivago" contains a poignant scene that forms a fearful premonition in 2011. In that scene arrogant, wealthy Russians dine in an expensive upstairs Moscow restaurant mocking…

Competitive couple continues to run

Dani Zibell and Alan Wolfe married just over four years ago and are such a great match-up. Dani was a devotee of running and in the course of their marriage the couple have competed in four Bloomsdays, a number of …

The next civil rights challenge: abuse

That little purple awareness ribbon represents $37 billion.

La Nina has returned

The National Weather Service earlier predicted that the chances of La Nina returning would be 50/50. As mentioned before, La Nina is the abnormal cooling of sea-surface temperatures along the West Coast of South Am…

A good way to govern

With many of the local Eastside area residents in attendance at the commissioners special hearing to pass judgment on the proposed three LIDs, it was brought to light that these first-time proposed LIDs were planne…

What's with this town?

I am in the publishing business myself and have been following a case from the prosecutor's office in Coeur d'Alene concerning its attempt to prosecute Joel Diekhoff on behalf of one Demetrius Lee. The prosecutor's…

'Sexy' is bad for your image

Most little girls have a favorite princess. I had an un-favorite: Snow White.

Paying it forward, four paws style

One person can and often does make a difference. One person and a dog ... now that's an unstoppable combination.

50 years of marriage

Happy 50th wedding anniversary mom and dad. This is your golden year; a lifetime milestone that demands celebration. It's time to cut the cake, visit with family and friends and dance.

Idaho, U.S. lag in broadband

We dropped again.

Our atmosphere is quickly losing heat

Insights into an Aryan assault

Last week (9/21/11) on Idaho PBS, my wife and I watched the documentary entitled "The Color of Conscience" concerning, mainly, the Aryan Nations' presence in North Idaho. As the program progressed, we couldn't help…

Alarms sounding on online classes

Mr. Deide misrepresents the Idaho Education Association and public school teachers in his recent column (Sept. 19).

Rural folk shouldn't pay for Cd'A 'dream'

I think by now everyone in Kootenai County understands how the LCDC, in particular, and tax-increment financing in general work: that citizens county-wide are asked to subsidize high-tax revenue generating projects…

Old idiom a flash in the pan

Readers sick of my love affair with idioms and slang, take heart (encouragement). This is it for a while; I won't be listing them until the cows come home (from free range grazing).