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Our planet's orbit may have contributed to ice ages
Last week, I featured the methods used to determine the climate of the Earth’s past. Much of the data that has been collected was from ice core samples, especi…
HUCKLEBERRIES: At your beck and mall
There were almost enough balloons at the 1989 opening of the Silver Lake Mall to float a child away. Clowns entertained, too, frolicking along the line of cust…
OPINION: Harris gives Dems a needed wake-up call
What a difference a single decision can make in a presidential election.
MY TURN: Freedom vs. Manipulation
Freedom is constantly under assault in this country, and perhaps throughout the entire world! Today as we prepare for Independence Day Celebrations throughout the nation, in Idaho and even Coeur d'Alene. Let's look…
OPINION: Lather rinse repeat
Most of the country is brainwashed and about half are severely brainwashed to the extent that they no longer operate in reality. Of course, YOU are not brainwa…
MY TURN: CLN trustees are intentionally eroding libraries
Friends of libraries, homeschooling parents and community leaders, know that the Community Library Network is being systematically eroded. For a year trustees …
OPINION: Idaho’s Don Quixote targets the Open Primaries Initiative
Idaho’s Don Quixote has found another windmill to tilt. Attorney General Raul Labrador has just hauled off and, once again, sued one of his own clients. This t…
OPINION: Idaho’s course correction
What do you see in Idaho’s future?
Shared history and enduring friendships
At 101 years young, Bea Fisher, Coeur d’Alene High School Class of 1941, was the belle of the ball at the 2024 CHS All-Class Reunion. How awesome is she?
Sholeh: What people with disabilities want you to know
Empathy is appreciated; pity is not.
How a past climate may be determined
Practically on a daily basis, we’re hearing about climate change and weather extremes.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Two grounds benefiting the people forever
Tubbs Hill and McEuen Park are miracles. The hallowed ground that the two treasures share on the waterfront would be commercialized today if well-meaning — but…
MY TURN: Trump missing family values
I loved and respected my father. He taught me much. He gave me his sense of humor, his photographic eye and his deep love for family, friends and our community. More importantly, he instilled in me the value of the…
MY TURN: Ignored or rejected?
Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls and Dalton Gardens have either refused or ignored requests for the support of and proclamations on behalf of Traditional Family Values. What will Rathdrum and/or Hayden do? Proclamations h…
OPINION: Natural born leader
“No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office …