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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…
PEO befriends women
It's really about friendship.
Injury won't pin down wrestler's hopes
There were no shortage of high school athletes competing over the weekend in a number of sports. Some with state championships on the line and some hoping to earn a spot at the state level.
Parent bootcamp
Mack's parents are frustrated. Mack refuses to do his homework, yells at everyone in the family, hits his little sister, trashes the house and is disrespectful to everyone he meets. Mack is a difficult child. This …
Idaho flunks history
Idaho got an F.
A magnetic pole 'shift' may be causing our rash of 'super storms'
I've received a lot of phone calls and e-mails lately concerning the recent story by FOX News that our planet's magnetic pole is slowly, but steadily, heading towards Russia. Airlines in Florida, for example, have …
Reform should go further
As I followed the deliberations of the state Legislature and the education proposals, I was amazed to read the articles in the Coeur d'Alene Press and thought surely they must be covering two different issues. The …
Vote on McEuen? No need
I read with interest Mary Souza's My Turn comment on the McEuen Field project that a public vote is 'not too complicated.' I would like to add that a public vote is not too necessary, either.Mayor Sandi Bloem and t…
County: Time to end the good ol' boy days
Is this deja vu? "A Look at Change," written by Alecia Warren, in the Feb. 7 Post Falls Press, has reopened the age old, and well studied issue of county gover…
Idaho businesses, GOP connection is unhealthy
Idaho businesses are back to the Legislature asking for more protection from competition and Republicans will do their best to oblige; even though they violate their own principles for the sake of political power. …
Aging flips the mirror
We humans waste so much time judging, assessing approval or disapproval of self and others (the latter generally a disguised extension of the former).
Two huge losses for our community
Two local businesses, representing 128 years of service, paychecks and still family-run, say farewell to their founders this week with the passing of Claire Everson and Jack Adams. Their bios show remarkable simila…
Preoperational development
"When I grow up I want to be a painter, a doctor, a princess and God," my 4-year-old granddaughter Quin tells her mother explaining her life goals.
Txt has eroded Eng
Word choice was once socially meaningful. It could distinguish the learned from the ignorant, gentlemen from cads, and unmask a pretender.
Wilson 'Snowflake' Bentley - a man of the winter season
The winter of 2010-11 has been extremely cold and snowy in the Jericho, Vt., area, where Sharon and I lived between May of 1995 and August of 2003, and where Wilson 'Snow-flake' Bentley was born on Feb. 9, 1865, to…
Why our schools are in crisis
Everyone is talking about education these days. Here is my two cents.