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End of a local radio era
Kerri Thoreson remembers when the lights went out on KVNI-1080 radio because she literally flipped the studio swit…
CSAs beneficially codependent
Press readers may recall the story of a 5-year-old who donated his hard-earned allowance to the Kootenai Humane Society. The inclination toward community support must run in the family; his mom, Sue Morgan DePew, i…
Invention is a soft sell
Here's a "hometown boy makes good" story featuring a fourth generation local man who took an idea through rough sketches to finished product.
Changing the way one eats
The industrial method of food production in our country is creating a widening gap between real food and mass-produced, genetically altered fake-food. The food found at the local grocer is wrapped in plastic, waxed…
Tired of price politics
Despite a current overage in supply, U.S. gas prices have risen by almost 34 cents over the past two weeks. According to the Lundburg Survey, that's the second-biggest price jump in the history of the gasoline mark…
To get an accurate total, snow must be measured at least six times a day
As I said in a Dec. 10, 2007 article in 'Gems,' "if our precipitation falls as snow and collects on the ground as snow, it should be measured as snow" ... Harris law.
Vote 'NO' on Post Falls levy
I have written this article in response to the Post Falls School District's upcoming levy which will be held on March 8. I encourage all voters to vote "NO" and I will tell you why.
Education: It's not just the dollars
It seems one can't pick up a newspaper these days without reading a headline on funding education - from the proposed $77 billion federal budget for the Department of Education, to the upcoming vote on the $25.8 mi…
Just the facts
Special to The PressThe breathtaking state funding cuts that have occurred over the last two years have permanently changed the face of our public schools. In four days we will face the most important financial dec…
Shutdown story is surreal
The national headlines seemed out of place. "Government shutdown" just aren't words Americans expect to see, averted or otherwise. I mean, come on; this isn't Tunisia. The mammoth U.S. doesn't just collapse. Right?
Soirees support schools
Support education at a couple of great soirees on Saturday ... the Post Falls Education Association's 15th annual Wine, Stein and Dine at the Greyhound Park Event Center will once again raise thousands of dollars f…
My seeds arrive
My Ferrari Enzo is making a tight, hairpin turn while passing a Porsche GT2 RS at Laguna Seca. I hear ringing which enters my slumber as a warning buzzer of an impending crash. I brace for the contact, the phone ri…
Civility: Time to relearn it
Rudeness accomplishes nothing. Worse, as Sunday's editorial emphasized, incivility tends to impede progress rather than provide advantage for either side. Let incivility in expression go far enough and we see resul…
'Chandler's Wobble' may usher in a new ice age
Last week in 'Gems,' we reported that NASA has discovered 'cracks' in the fluctuating earth's magnetic field.
Cuts will hurt in long run
As the country faces an economic crisis that has not been seen since the Great Depression, our state is in the midst of determining ways to manage the budget. Idaho Medicaid is facing a deficit somewhere around $92…
New levy is not 'for the kids'
We now are faced with a request for another levy. Only this time, it is a whopping $26 million ($12.9 million each year for the next two years.)