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Aquamarine healing properties are some of the most cherished benefits brought to us from the crystal kingdom.

Steel on steel, help make it real!

During my life I have been involved with many worthwhile causes: anti-war rallies, world peace gatherings, natural disaster fundraising and community projects. Giving service has been important to me, but life has taught me that no issue is more important than one that affects your family, friends and your community. This may sound selfish, until you realize our society has evolved from thousands of communities throughout our nation, all with a plan to make our life better.

A grieving mother's message to the NFL

Dear NFL:

Coronavirus Has Upended Our World. It's OK To Grieve.

On weekday evenings, sisters Lesley Laine and Lisa Ingle stage online happy hours from the Southern California home they share. It’s something they’ve been enjoying with local and faraway friends during this period of social distancing and self-isolation. And on a recent evening, I shared a toast with them.

From Owning Humans to Renting Humans to Actual Human Liberation

It seems that the right of all workers to be equally and indiscriminately exploited is the end-all-be-all for the liberal ‘left.’ Indeed, the hallmark of bourgeois social movements for the last 70 years has been the struggle against discrimination (and for equal exploitation) at the workplace and in society at large. This remains the political horizon and the limit of bourgeois liberal political imagination and necessarily leads to an agender, color-blind neoliberal approach to securing labor. The dominant narrative on the right remains “If they (or you) would just try harder, be more resilient, then…” while on the left it remains “Oppressed people have a longer race to run so they have to try even harder, be even more resilient!” Both offer impeccable logic. Try harder = do better. Oppression = less opportunity. Both fall short of a systematic analysis of labor under capital.

Cd’A, Lakeland levies fail; PF levy passes

Kootenai School District also passes supplemental levy

Four out of six school levies failed Tuesday in Kootenai County, with supplemental levies passing in the Post Falls and Kootenai Joint school districts.

More info always good for voters

Many elected local government offices are “non-partisan”, which means

How to lasso runaway growth

Lately I have been wondering about our “representative” government

Community Thanks July 21, 2013

Here comes Geezer Brigade

They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers.

When life throws you a curve - scoliosis

From about the fourth grade on up to 10th grade, most of us can remember having undergone a scoliosis screening at school. It usually consisted of taking time out at the beginning of gym period and having to do a touch-the-toes movement, called the Adam's Forward Bend Test, while a coach looked at your back before declaring you were fine. No big deal, right? Mostly yes, since only a small percentage of the population is actually afflicted with scoliosis, but many people who actually have scoliosis in one form or another may not even know until it progresses to a severe state.

One email forward worth the consideration

I got this in an email. It is attributed to Warren Buffet. It doesn't matter who put it together, it is a really good idea.

A thief in the night

Is Social Gospel/Justice coming to a church near you? Or has it already arrived? Did you know it was coming or when it got there?

Recall misses the boat

As someone who was born in Coeur d'Alene and grew up here in the 1950s and 60s, I have followed the McEuen Field debate and associated recall effort with great interest.

Touting the tongue

Doctor of Oriental Medicine

The room burst into laughter. Here we were, a bunch of doctors, sticking our tongues out towards the little mirrors that the speaker had handed out to each of us, and then she said "Now, are you going to let that little piece of meat ruin your health?" We laughed, but became more serious as she continued. The tongue, as it turns out, is quite the deciding factor in our health.

Give the gift of warmth

As the old saying goes, "Cold feet, warm heart," but when your feet get cold, it's hard to feel jolly this time of year. For most of my life, I’ve struggled with staying warm when the weather turns cold. I remember always wearing jackets growing up and still being constantly cold until about 11 years ago when I discovered Alpaca. This was life changing for me. Finally… I was warm! I was determined to introduce the wonders of alpaca fiber to others and we had just started raising alpacas for my daughter’s 4H project. I wanted everyone to experience the warmth of alpaca apparel, but it had to be high quality and reasonably priced. My husband suggested we launch a website and a few months later “AlpacaDirect.com” was born.

Vote 'yes' on library levy request

We can tell you something important about anyone who says nobody uses our public libraries anymore: They haven’t been in one lately.

Detox your way to health

It is vital that we provide our body some respite and much needed rest, which is where the importance of detox lies. The detoxification process works by shifting the focus from metabolizing unhealthy foods towards cellular regeneration and internal cleansing of the body.

Community Thanks May 22, 2016

Save our crowned jewels

"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone? They paved Paradise and put up a Parking Lot!" - Joni Mitchell