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A cup of tea, anyone?
If the next cup of tea you drink leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, there's a good reason: It's a hangover from the tea party they just had in Washington, D.C. It isn't the first tea party to leave historic after…
Oversight lacking on McEuen contract
On May 24, by a vote of 5-1 the City Council adopted the so-called McEuen Park master plan. The effort to produce this plan was covered by a contract between the city and Miller-Stauffer Architects. I obtained a co…
Money can't buy you health
If there is one thing humans everywhere can agree on, it's the desire for a long and healthy life. Given the obvious relationship between the two, a natural assumption would be that the higher the investment in mod…
Living her life to the fullest
There isn't enough space in this column to do justice to the life and times of beautiful Marie Whitesel, who attributes her longevity to staying busy. Considering she's 95 years young, I'm taking her at her word. M…
Words can hurt
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me - or will they? Pontificating platitudes and putdowns have the ability to injure even when benign, sarcastic or offered thoughtlessly in casual conv…
Harry's Lisa: me?
I have been called many things in nine years of column writing. Some of them have been very nice; some not so much. Certain labels have been fair and accurate; others, puzzling misidentifications.
Looks like we elected a lemon
By Jeff J. Langford
Another 'Dust Bowl' era could be starting
This decade thus far has mirrored the 1930s weatherwise and otherwise. It's the 'Dust Bowl Days' and the 'Great Depression' resurrected in a new generation of misery.
U of I Extension Needed for Logger Education
I appreciate the difficult decisions that the clerk and commissioners are making with regard to what Kootenai County spends annually on both mandated and non-mandated programs. I would not want to be in their shoes…
Hydromaniacs hype H2O hysteria
A few months ago, I tried my hand at writing a My Turn column about the Museum of North Idaho and our need for a new building. Well, enough folks complimented me on it that I now have the delusion that I can write …
Judaism's 5 cycles of life
A headline like "Roving Rabbis" in Wednesday's Press is bound to get attention, for the alliteration as much as relative rarity of a rabbi in North Idaho. If you missed it, two rabbinical interns arrived in Athol t…
The 27th year club
Is there a time in one's life when he or she so drastically changes that it feels like a rebirth, a do-over, the beginning of a new life? Can there be a directional life compass which, if set in the right direction…
Family fun in the sun for famous faces
There were extra thousands of people in Coeur d'Alene during Art on the Green/Street Fair/Taste of the Coeur d'Alenes this past weekend so it might not have been noticed that there were a trio of luminaries in our …
Ghosts alight the skies
There's just some'n ya have to understand about Texas. Texas is no mere place, it's an attitude. Toss in an old ae-ro-plane and attitude (as in relative position to the horizon) takes altitude.
What if the University of Idaho Extension gets cut?
While the analogy comparing University of Idaho Extension programs and its clientele to dead, stinking deer carcasses was an attention grabber (see "A smell test for funding" July 31, Cd'A Press), local citizens de…