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HUCKLEBERRIES: Awakened to the dangers of white supremacy
I missed the commotion that day. And it has bugged me since.
MY TURN: Mammoths and Extinct Megafaunas: Climate change or man
Mammoths were not the only megafauna that went extinct at the end of the Great Ice Age (Pleistocene). Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared, including mastodons, woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk…
MY TURN: Maybe the 'bad guys' are really the 'good guys'
Rumors and misinformation often align with group affiliations. Zeke Winchestor’s letter may be an example. He says the bad guys on the board at NIC are ‘the majority’ because they hired the wrong attorney. Newcomer…
OPINION: Leadership choices as bad as they can get
Idaho Congressman Russ Fulcher is a self-described optimist, but he has trouble putting a smiley face to what he’s seeing on the national level.
OPINION: Fact check
"The mission of the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) is to enhance freedom and prosperity by promoting fiscally and socially conservative c…
OPINION: No more educational chaos, please
Chaos might be fun for a while, but North Idaho has had enough. As Kootenai County kids go back to school, we are all ready for normalcy, consistency, and rout…
Precious cargo in big yellow buses
Here’s a collective Good Sport Award to the hundreds of kids, from kindergartners to seniors in high school, who let their parents take first day of school pho…
Don't say it again, MLP
Your ever-so-humble Mrs. Language Person was a stellar typist on those lovely old click-and-stick machines, yet now her arthritic old fingers slip on accursed …
Will the upcoming fall turn wet?
September is here and so was a change in our weather pattern. Much-needed rain returned to the region last week as we entered the “full moon” lunar phase.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Gentle giants
A Coeur d’Alene Press sportswriter once described them as “teenage office buildings.”
MY TURN: Political considerations
Octogenarian Observations 2.0 I want to thank all of you that will take the time to read this through, and think about what is right for our country.
OPINION: If you’re not an ‘extremist,’ you must be a ‘RINO’
When Republican Sen. Tammy Nichols of Middleton reads the words, “far-right extremists,” in a political commentary, she knows that the side she generally repre…
OPINION: Democrat chaos
An accountant friend would tell a story of the 1980 Savings and Loan collapse. He attended a meeting where the board members watched a presentation recommendin…
MY TURN: If you can't stand the heat ...
Ya just gotta feel sorry for poor old attorney Art Macomber who said as quoted in a recent Press article, that because he had faced sharp criticism from the public over his work at North Idaho College, he raised hi…
OPINION: Labor Day, a holiday for all of us
Monday, Sept. 4 is Labor Day. This annual day off of work at the end of summer recognizes and honors the labor movement.