WHOA: Stop the panic

We can’t control the current “disruption in all of our lives” but we can communicate with each other about other subjects through our local newspaper and its website. Dwelling only on the coronavirus when it is something out of our (or anyone’s) control is counter productive for the entire human race. We should be concentrating on living into the future, not dying in isolation.

INITIATIVE: Keep it intact for Idaho

Idaho’s legislative maneuver (SB 1108) to increase the degree of difficulty in qualifying a citizen initiative runs counter to principles of democracy and fairness. The Idaho Farm Bureau, which seeks to require a minimum signature threshold in a majority of state legislative districts, simply wants to make the initiative process unusable, and to dominate the discussion of its issues at the state capitol.

Super Tuesday a split decision

Romney wins Ohio, four other states; Santorum counters with three wins

WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney squeezed out a win in pivotal Ohio, captured four other states with ease and padded his delegate lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination but was forced to share the Super Tuesday spotlight with a resurgent Rick Santorum.

Stocks edge lower

Apple sinks 4 percent

NEW YORK - Apple, the most valuable company in the U.S., slumped Friday, helping to drag down the stock market. A lack of progress in federal budget talks also discouraged investors.

Multi-family market

About 300 attend Kootenai County Market Forum

COEUR d'ALENE - The old adage, "They don't build them like they used to," might well apply to the market for multi-family homes. And smaller is definitely better. "Apartment values are down, but not distressed," said Pat Eberlin, one of five agents from Coldwell Banker Commercial who discussed the prospects for investors in Kootenai County real estate.

Floyd C. Cardwell, 83

Tugboat Captain of the Florence Lee

The making of the term 'pink slime'

NEW YORK (AP) - "Pink slime" was almost "pink paste" or "pink goo."

Cd'A schools buy local

Post Falls company to provide district with Wi-Fi service

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Ilene Charron, 86

Catapults and stomp rockets... for science!

As cars drove by the suburban house, all drivers saw were kids flinging things into the air. Hacky Sacks dropped from the sky, hitting the road, the lawn across the street, even the roof of the house.

Health care group injects money into valley

The Lewis-Clark Valley Healthcare Foundation is loosening its purse strings to give local nonprofits a leg up while they wait out the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Thomas Nelson Loudin Sr., 87

OBAMA: Speech leaves us speechless

Did everyone get from Obama what I got during the State of the Union speech? I got that he wants us to abandon oil and coal and figure out how to make Green technology work despite the fact that people aren't buying hybrid cars, despite the fact that Green factories are closing all over the nation and people are losing their Green jobs, and despite the fact that coal and oil make the U.S. a lot of money and employ a lot of people.

D.C.: Spenders, take a long hike

Control and manipulation, and more out of control spending seem to be in our Republic’s future unless Americans wake up and smell the roses, and vote out the massive spenders in our very fragile government. Which, if it weren’t for money being printed with nothing backing it, the U.S. would maybe be broke. Too many easy entitlement programs giving away billions of taxpayer dollars buy votes for more spending and controls. Where will all this spending end, if ever, or until the U.S. goes broke? Both parties are guilty of overspending, over taxation, etc.

50 shades of green for abuse victims

Cornhole for CASA

North Idaho TitleOne hosts tournament fundraiser for community

The sixth annual North Idaho Cornhole Tournament will see sacks tossed to raise money for North Idaho CASA starting at 11 a.m. with the first toss at noon May 13 at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds.

Vintage still matters

The growing conditions in any given year can vary wildly by region and versus previous or subsequent years. We understand too though the argument of buying producer over vintage. There are some wineries and winemakers who figure out a way to make good wine no matter how challenging the conditions. Even for this top tier of producers though and more so for all the rest of the winemakers vintage matters, it is why wines taste different from every year. They may still all be good wines but they will be different, and therefore may not appeal to your palate in the same way.

The bright spots of 2010

From the coldest summer in 50 years in California, to early fall rains, to countless stories of wine grapes rotting on the vine before they could ripen throughout the western U.S., the 2010 vintage is well-documented as a very tough one for domestic wineries. As more red wines are released, though, bright spots continue to show up - so many that the adage of "buying producers over vintage" appears to be more true than ever.

Republicans grill Bernanke over inflation threat

By JEANNINE AVERSA

Varietal Emergence II

As we wrote earlier in the summer we have been pleasantly surprised at the demand for some previously over-looked wines, varietals and producers. Part of this trend has demonstrated its strength most notably though with some unusual varietals being requested more often, and garnering high marks from many consumers.