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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…
Family fun at Spring Dash
On Sunday, 1,237 runners of all ages participated in the annual Spring Dash. Keith Erickson and his daughters, Nicole, 20 and Brooke, 14, made it a family affair, as did Carrie Cook and her daughter, Sarah.
Suicidal feelings don't last
Suicide.Sad. Selfish. A waste. Incomprehensible.
More about earthquakes, the Richter Scale and volcanic eruptions
Since late December of 2009, there have been a near-record number of disastrous earthquakes near or above 7.0 on the Richter Scale worldwide, including the deadly tremors in Haiti, Chile and China.
Making college affordable
Students are drawn to community colleges for many reasons. In fact, estimates suggest that more than half of American undergraduates choose to start their higher education in a community college. In survey after su…
Starting up your irrigation system
With the unseasonably warm dry weather we have experienced, chances are you are thinking about pressurizing your irrigation system, if you haven't already done so. In this column, we'll look at the steps that shoul…
Who's the bully on the IB playground?
Vern Harvey and Dan Dolezal deserve a round of applause for their IB, PYP column published on April 17. Together they have illustrated exactly the kinds of behavior and thinking the IB programs are designed to illi…
Building roads to nowhere
The Tea Party movement in our community has been quick to condemn wasteful spending by the federal government. As a fiscal conservative, I agree with their demands for financial transparency and fiscal prudence, bu…
Clerk: Local elections run according to law
There appears to be a great gulf of difference in the conclusions that have been drawn by some regarding last November's election for the city of Coeur d'Alene. That election was conducted by the Kootenai County El…
Diapers for the Tea Party
Let's send a truckload of diapers to the next Tea Party rally.
Green: The profit revolution
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and the birth of the environmental movement. Founder Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, was fed up with leaded gas-guzzling V-8 engines, polluted smoke plum…
Feeling the stress of divorce
A child asked this week if I thought she was a bad kid. I looked at her with surprise and asked, "What makes you ask such a question? I think you're a wonderful kid." The child, looking down at her feet cried quiet…
Unlucky number wins for Morrow family
When 85-year-old Bonnie Morrow of Rathdrum saw the advertisement for a $5,000 Cabela's gift card being raffled by the Post Falls Chamber of Commerce in last Tuesday's Coeur d'Alene Press, she told her son, Larry Sa…
Standing up to the pro-IB steamrollers
The recent discussion over the International Baccalaureate curriculum is so typical of modern political debate. The opposing citizens use facts, the curriculum standards themselves, the expensiveness of it and the …
Rape can breed more crime
If you're tempted to pigeonhole an addict, or perhaps a prison inmate with a drug history, consider a few statistics during April - Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
We are in the strongest cycle of weather 'extremes' in at least 1,000 years
I've had several people ask me lately about the advancing Hubbard Glacier in Alaska. Here is what Frank 'Skip' Ryman reported to me on April 9: