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El Nino continues to strengthen
For many months, we have been featuring the strengthening El Nino in the waters of the south-central Pacific Ocean…
HUCKLEBERRIES: Merry Press Christmas to all!
Officially, the Press Christmas for All began in 1986. Unofficially, the Yuletide charity started seven years earlier.
MY TURN: Confrontational politics: Our votes do matter
Have you been discussing politics with friends lately? I have. My friends and I agree, the recent election proves that our votes do matter. Confrontational politics, at the end of the day, did not have the massive …
OPINION: Risch ready for Trump 2.0
Those in my line of work who are covering the transition zoo in Washington would do well not to stick a microphone under Sen. Jim Risch’s chin.
MY TURN: Challenging Regan's claims about Trump
On Nov. 22 Brett Regan, the chair of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, wrote a paean to Donald Trump, who won the 2024 presidential election. Liberals like me do not deny this; and we are not sendin…
OPINION: NIC win-win
Now that the North Idaho College trustee election is over we can set aside the rhetoric and review the facts.
MY TURN: Thanks for saving NIC
On this week of "Thanks Giving" I am going to say THANK YOU to all those who voted to SAVE N.I.C. I urge all these same folks to rest up and get ready to give more of your heart and soul to keep up the fight. Our …
'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 grocery shopping, those who are cooking and those w…
OPINION: The gratitude attitude
Tomorrow, many Americans will pause, gather around a dinner table, and remember all the reasons we have to be thankful.
OPINION: Giving thanks for those volunteers who took on the party bosses on Prop 1
When I was going to law school in Chicago during the mid-1960s, Mayor Richard Daley was the undisputed boss of the Democratic Party in Cook County. Candidates …
sholeh: Giving thanks, the Cherokee way
Maybe it's your way, too
Bomb cyclones have made headlines this month
Last week, a massive Pacific storm, which was referred to as a “bomb cyclone,” battered the western regions of Washington, Oregon and northern California. In f…
HUCKLEBERRIES: Football, she coached
Beverly Sullivan had no use for feminism 50 years ago when she stepped onto the MeEuen football field. She told the Coeur d’Alene Press bluntly: “Women don’t b…
MY TURN: CLN does NOT violate First Amendment
Over the last few weeks Michelle Lippert (“My Turn” on Nov. 7), Cecil Kelly (Oct. 2 letter to the editor), and Richard Cripe (Oct. 23 letter to the editor), have offered their opinions regarding the library board, …
OPINION: Crapo may see a higher profile
In the 40 years that I have known Sen. Mike Crapo, he has never bragged about his having great power or influence — even when he was in high-level political po…
OPINION: Trump flashback
I wrote this in December 2015, nearly a year before Trump was elected the first time. How did it age?