Fighters heading to Cd'A for airport shindig

Don’t be alarmed if you hear and see fighter planes passing over downtown Coeur d’Alene this afternoon.

SMART: Prepare for life's surprises

I just read two articles that made me think: the couponing story and Mr. Hitchcock's end of the world story.

World/Nation Briefs November 30, 2012

White House 'fiscal cliff' offer gets cold shoulder from GOP

Area stores taking some safety precautions amid coronavirus

An employee wearing protective blue gloves was wiping down the handles of grocery carts when customers walked into Clarkston’s Costco on Tuesday.

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — JONATHON M. SASSER: Sleep: Quality over quantity

Imagine this: every night when you go to bed you lie awake for hours as your mind races and you even wake throughout the night once you do get to sleep. You may have been exhausted before, but no matter what you do, you can’t seem to get to sleep. Chances are, you don’t even have to try hard to imagine this. And if you don’t have sleep challenges it is all but guaranteed that someone in your immediate circle struggles to get quality sleep. It is estimated that about 30% of adults have difficulty getting to sleep and staying asleep.

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — HOLLY CARLING: WWeighing on our mind: Healthy weight

It seems that the majority of people in the United States, and perhaps the world, to more or less degrees, have the same thing weighing on their minds — their weight. I rarely find anyone happy with their weight. Most want to lose weight, while others need to gain it.

SROs are already on the job

Since the tragedy In Newtown, our nation has entered into an important discussion about school safety. A lot has been said about gun control, about mental health, about arming teachers, and about physical security. What you haven't heard is the voice of those actually in the trenches, day in and out, at our schools protecting kids. This is the story of the School Resource Officer.

The sad state of our heart

There are few diseases we are winning the war on today. Most diseases are rising at an alarming rate, costing consumers billions of dollars annually. One of the worst is cardiovascular disease. The American Heart Association displays some pretty distressing statistics: Previous to 2003, three in 1,000 men between the ages of 35-44 were diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (CVD). In 2006 it was 77 per 1,000. The Framington Heart Study done between 1980-2003 concluded that the risk for CVD was two in every three men and more than one in every two women at age forty. 2009 estimates 80 million people (one in three) have one or more types of cardiovascular diseases. Costs for CVD in the U.S. alone in 2009 was $475.3 billion! Contrast that with cancer, which ran $228 billion for the same year. Both out of control, both very sad statistics. CVD is a financial and emotional burden for families and taxpayers alike.

Antibiotics: Friend or foe? Part III

In addition to "bad" yeasts, molds and fungus, our bodies also have beneficial yeasts, bacteria and other microbes that do wondrous things in our body. But the "good" yeasts and microbes are supposed to keep the "bad" ones in check. About 85 percent should be good, 15 percent bad. When this delicate balance sways towards the bad microbes, illness or disease results. The good ones (commonly referred to as microflora), have many benefits: they support digestion, produce certain vitamins, fatty acids and proteins that the body needs, boosts immune function, and as already mentioned, protect the body from an overgrowth of potentially harmful bacteria, molds, yeasts and fungus. Some of these harmful pathogens that we would otherwise be protected against include Salmonella, cholera, the bad E. coli and candidiasis.

Sleep: Quality over quantity

Imagine this: every night when you go to bed you lie awake for hours as your mind races and you even wake throughout the night once you do get to sleep. You may have been exhausted before, but no matter what you do, you can’t seem to get to sleep. Chances are, you don’t even have to try hard to imagine this. And if you don’t have sleep challenges it is all but guaranteed that someone in your immediate circle struggles to get quality sleep. It is estimated that about 30% of adults have difficulty getting to sleep and staying asleep.

The complex health picture

With ever-increasing complexity in life, we learn to compartmentalize our life in an attempt to bring order to chaos. We have our spiritual life, family life, work life, social life, animal/pet life, recreational life and our health. Our health gets further compartmentalized into food, exercise, stress-relief, sleep, hydration, energy and disease-management. The disease-management is even further compartmentalized, or fractionalized, to all the specialty fields of medicine. We have a doctor for our joints, one for our heart, another for our digestive system, another for our emotional health, etc. Even within these specialties are sub-specialties! Wow! Is this wise?

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Varicose veins: Seeking relief when resilience fails

Varicose Veins are a common problem in the U.S. affecting nearly 20% of the population as of 2022. With such a rise, we need to look at what causes it, and what we need to do to help.

Wine taste raises $137K for Hospice of North Idaho

HAYDEN - Hospice of North Idaho raised more than $137,000 Saturday night at its 29th Annual Hospice "That's Amore" Wine Taste and Auction fundraiser at the Hayden Lake Country Club.

GUNS: Idaho v. California

Mr. Boothe, in Idaho, you can buy one or more guns and take them home the same day. In California — A STATE RUN ENTIRELY BY DEMOCRATS — if you purchase a gun, you must wait 10 days to take it home, BUT only if you prove you have a STATE-APPROVED firearm safety device, lock box, or gun safe for your new weapon. Nor can you purchase more than one handgun in a 30-day period.

PC industry's woes could mean bargains

SAN FRANCISCO - If you're looking for bargains on personal computers, bad news from the industry could be good for your pocketbook.

Idaho's first flu death reported in Kootenai County

The first flu-related death in Idaho was reported Wednesday in Kootenai County.

My Turn: Here's why Santorum is wrong

Life does NOT begin at conception. Presidential candidate Rick Santorum likes to say that he doesn’t BELIEVE that life begins at conception — he KNOWS it begins at conception. And his radical view on this and on contraception in general reminds me of the quote by Mark Twain. “It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.”

Ringing in the ears

Ask your audiologist...

What causes ringing in the ears and how can I make it go away?

Fed struggled in 2009 over how to boost economy, papers show

WASHINGTON - As the Great Recession inflicted worsening damage on the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve struggled during 2009 to determine the best corrective steps to pursue.

Those who profit should pay for growth

Here's one solution to Kootenai County's growth problem.