Coeur d'Alene Press

April 17, 2013 9 p.m.

Unified Land Use Code comments sought

Kootenai County Planning Commission is accepting public comments on the final draft of the Unified Land Use Code that was released to the public on Tuesday.

November 18, 2012 9:08 p.m.

Conditions right for market, for now

They did it again. Last week mortgage rates set a new record for the lowest rate since 30-year fixed rate mortgages came into existence. That's good news for those who want to borrow money and can qualify. We all know that banks have been remarkably critical when reviewing borrowers' qualifications - a sharp turn from the mirror fog testing that preceded the real estate feeding frenzy of last decade.

April 12, 2010 9 p.m.

Becoming the retiring place

Coeur d'Alene among eight cities highlighted based on location, great real estate deals

Barbara Gilliland admitted she and her husband hadn't been thinking about buying a home when they visited family in Coeur d'Alene last summer.

July 24, 2013 9 p.m.

Buy producers, not vintages, but...

This past week we hosted a dinner at Fleur de Sel in Post Falls featuring wines from Kermit Lynch imports. The featured wines were mostly from Burgundy and featured some of the very highest end bottlings including Grand and Premier Cru selections from some of the most storied producers in this most storied of appellations, including Meo Camuzet, Jobard, Roulot and others. The wines were outstanding; Laurent Zirotti's food as always was impeccably prepared and artfully matched to the wines. The evening was in short a rare and truly special event, even for us as wine professionals we very rarely get to taste wines of this caliber and price point.

January 29, 2020 midnight

The future of wine pricing

For the first time since we opened the shop 12 years ago there are many forces at work pushing wine prices higher. Forces that go beyond the normal ones of supply and demand, good vintages with large harvests and challenging years with low yields, and the normal ebb and flow of consumer demand for certain varietals, or appellations. Both on a global scale and right here in our own local area many factors are at work to change the wine marketplace and influence pricing.

December 1, 2013 8 p.m.

What kind of buyer are you?

Consumer behavior aggressively tracked this season

July 2, 2011 9 p.m.

'FarmVille' creator Zynga to go public

LOS ANGELES - Zynga, the online game maker behind "FarmVille" and other popular Facebook pastimes, is going public, the latest in a crop of high-valued Internet IPOs expected after LinkedIn Corp. showed that the online networking craze is a hot commodity on Wall Street.

November 28, 2010 8 p.m.

What recession?

Shoppers eat up Black Friday deals

For one day at least, you could almost imagine the recession never happened. Millions of the nation's shoppers braved rain and cold to crowd stores while others grabbed online bargains on what could be the busiest Black Friday ever.

November 23, 2021 11:35 a.m.

Fighting gas prices, US to release 50 million barrels of oil

The government will begin to move barrels into the market in mid- to late-December

July 7, 2010 9 p.m.

Stamp prices going up again - to 46 cents

WASHINGTON (AP)- Buy those Forever stamps now. The cost of mailing a letter is going up again.

July 14, 2011 9 p.m.

Netflix price hike angers users, some drop plan

SAN FRANCISCO - Some Netflix customers called it a slap in the face. Others a betrayal. Many threatened to drop the movie service.

September 15, 2013 9 p.m.

Is your agent giving you a fair shot?

It's a high-tech world we live in. In many regards, technology has made our lives easier. It also has disadvantages when abused to scam or con an unsuspecting consumer. Most consumers resent being mislead and most are not very forgiving upon discovering a home they were interested in is not what they saw on the Internet.

August 18, 2015 9 p.m.

More millennials stuck renting for years before buying home

Delay reflects trend in financial challenges facing young adults

October 13, 2010 9 p.m.

WinEconomy semi-annual update

It has been about six months since I wrote about pricing and supply trends in the wine industry so I figured it might be a good time to update wine consumers on those trends. When we last wrote retail prices for wine were coming down quite relentlessly due to an over-supply and the general economic trends in the country.

February 9, 2021 1 a.m.

Valentine’s Day by the dollars

The sweet scent of Valentine's Day flowers...or is that the smell of cold, hard cash?

December 3, 2013 8 p.m.

Shopping on the go

Americans turn to mobile devices for Cyber Monday

August 27, 2020 1 a.m.

4-H goes virtual

Kootenai-Shoshone 4-H Program offers online buying option

May 9, 2012 9:15 p.m.

Looking to Europe

We have written many times recently of the troubled 2010 and 2011 wine grape vintages here in North America, and while there are exceptions many of the wines we have tasted are not very good. Recently we have tried the 2010 Skylark Pinot Blanc and the 2011 Skylark Pink Belly dry rose and have found both to be exceptional. Similarly the 2010 Josh Cabernet and 2010 Pennywise Pinot Noir have been very good, and there are others too that appear to have either been picked prior to the harvest time weather woes, or have come from vineyards that were so tightly and expertly managed that the wines are still very good.