Relax: Time to practice a little yogi

Let's all take a little baseball tension break.

Trader Joe's coming to Cd'A

Grocer has building permit to open site of Runge's Furniture

Trader Joe's has long been on the wish list for many who wanted to see a Coeur d'Alene store. Word of its plans to come here spread quickly on social media.

Randall McCutcheon, 74

Randall McCutcheon, 74

Art of Almost, 20 years later

A new rock album came out Tuesday, and I went to the record store to buy it.

22 tips to reduce plastic use

Tuesday’s column shared the disheartening and almost overwhelming statistics of our increasing, and increasingly Earth-strangling, plastic-filled lives. What can the average person do to reduce it? Here are a few ideas:

The Exhausted Dad: Saying yes to the dress and no to everything else

Shopping with my oldest daughter is a danger to my bank account.

Robocalls and political scams increase as election day nears

Few groups keep up with current events quite as well as scammers.

Fish and Game asks hunters to promptly report individual hunting results

Most of the major big game hunting seasons are now over. Successful or not, hunters are already starting to think about next season. So are we at the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

The financially motivated sextortion threat

FBI warns of dangers of online schemes targeting young adults and minors

The FBI this week issued a new warning about an evolving online threat targeting minors and young adults: financially motivated sextortion.

BP: Owners should ante up

While I'm sure we sympathize with BP's shareholders, I cannot agree with Dorothy Radke's suggestion that their dividends remain unaffected. The shareholders actually own the company! If we invest in a company, we are buying a piece of it, so we really ought to understand the risks involved. There is no "blame", but ownership comes with responsibility.

Former Idaho couple faces prison in housing fraud

BOISE (AP) - A former Idaho couple embroiled in their family's scheme to buy and quickly sell homes at the height of the U.S. housing bubble has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and face up to 20 years behind bars.

GAS: Solution isn't overseas

Gas prices are becoming too expensive to fast. Soon people will not be able to buy gas for their cars and the only solution for it are electric cars. The electric cars are not the best; the best solution can only be found with time. We also need more people looking into this problem instead of looking into other countries. If those people don’t, our country will go for a dramatic turn of events in more than just the gas problem.

Today's ghastly groaner

The other day I decided to bake a cake, and so I set to work in the kitchen. I discovered that I didn’t have any butter, so I sent my dog to buy some. On the way, he passed a bookstore and, being intrigued by a display in the window, he went in and came home with a dog-eared book of poems. The point of my story is: Never send a literary dog to the grocery store because he’ll get verse before he gets butter.

GUNS: Wrong question asked

As students walk out of school to demonstrate and protest the most recent school shooting, they all seem to be asking “How?” How did the shooter get the rifle? How did the shooter get into the school? How can we allow people to buy such weapons?

Today's ghastly groaner

I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.

Buy Warren Buffett's head

MEALS: Food for official thought

No money for senior Meals on Wheels? How do you elected officials sleep at night? There is money for ANOTHER dog park, there are millions of dollars available for the McEuen project, there is money to buy land and build a replacement baseball park and boat ramp, there is money for a boat trailer parking lot at Carlin Bay, and there is money for pay raises. What is next, parking meters in handicapped parking spaces?

TRAINS: City on right track

Train horns? Thank God Mayor Jacobson and the City Council saw through this whining. The money needed for surveys, surveys and more surveys would be astronomical and would be better used for purchase of another street sweeper.

PELOSI: Might be out of touch

Nancy Pelosi’s latest gaff is to claim that we can make the border safer buy mowing the grass. Except for the irrigated imperial valley, there is virtually no grass from California to West Texas along the border. It is dry desert. Remember this is the same multi-millionaire who said that $1,000 bonuses, tax breaks and wage increases were “crumbs.” This from a woman who recently spent $10,000 a night at the Four Seasons Hotel in Hawaii. Keep up the good work Nancy! We Republicans love it!

RIPOFF: The great huckleberry heist

I can’t believe the people who are in charge of our forest lands came up with a way to screw the hardworking citizens of Idaho. We have the lowest minimum wage in the country. Our senior citizens struggle to either eat or get their prescriptions. Our young people who struggle to make it on minimum wage pick huckleberries to buy school supplies or just have a little extra income.