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Updated 4 months ago

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER: The people who hold communities together

Starting June 15, nominations will open for local Weaver recognition and community grants. The nomination period w…

Updated 8 years, 4 months ago
Confidence is critical for Honor Flight

A beloved patriotic program needs a lift.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Have fun and learn the law, too

Don’t look now, but isn’t that Crusty the Reporter and Trusty the City Clerk truckin’ down Sherman Avenue?

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
There's a lot at stake on Tuesday

Sorry, Mom.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Innovation comes to local politics

What do you get when you mix elephants and donkeys with beer?

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Once-a-year opportunity is here again

When Dr. David Adler lectures on “Fake News and the Freedom of the Press” tomorrow evening, credibility will be the keynote theme.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Feel the chill from the north

Psssst.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Sometimes, the facts will freak you out

At the 1:23 mark of the official trailer “Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing,” the camera briefly lingers on a shelf of Gladwell’s fabulous books. To the immediate left of his writings is a title that almost jumps of…

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
We need more Scouts - all kinds

For more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America has been making our nation better by instilling strong character in boys and young men.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Political junkies, here you go

Popping open a pot of political potpourri:

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Questions in District 2 need answers

John Green isn’t quite the spitting image of Phil Hart, but the two North Idaho candidates for Idaho Legislature bear some uncomfortable, if not untenable, similarities.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Community stuck on U.S. 95

As you drive the stretch of U.S. 95 between the Spokane River and Prairie Avenue, dear motorists, let’s see a show of hands of happy drivers.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
See you in the yard, neighbor

Next to the winter coat, let’s hang up our differences for a few hours.

Updated 8 years, 5 months ago
Campaign season brings in the trash

The Tommy Ahlquist campaign has been punching fellow Idaho governor candidates Raul Labrador and Brad Little hard in Ahlquist’s recent TV advertisements. The a…

Updated 8 years, 6 months ago
Working our way out of debt

Accumulating more debt than you can pay off can’t be justified, let alone be seen as a good thing.

Updated 8 years, 6 months ago
A model for voters to follow

Will the next Shawn Keough please step forward?