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Giving Together: Supporting those who care for others
For many caregivers in the Flathead Valley, caring for a loved one with dementia can become an around-the-clock ro…
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Sometimes people ask me why I insist on writing column after column about Barack Obama, or before him George W. Bush, when I am just a small-town editor.
A look at the lighter side? Nah!
With all the crazy stuff going on, it was hard to know what to write about this week. No matter what a little old country editor picked, it seemed like someone…
Just who do they represent?
Virtually every day when Congress is in session, I get a press release or two from each of Montana's representatives explaining how they are looking out for ou…
Charity and the good ol' Constitution
"Where do you find in the Constitution any authority to give away the public money in charity?"
Lutefisk, hot springs and happy soakers
I don't know how it happened, but last weekend in the hot tub at The Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, the conversation turned to lutefisk.
Debt crisis must not be 'wasted'
In a recent column, I wrote, "Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid are wonderful benefits, especially since we don't actually have to pay for them…" and w…
Health care and the ailing Constitution
Here's the question I didn't get a chance to ask President Obama when he stopped by Montana recently. So far as I know, no one else has asked it of him either:
Hospitality a hallmark on the Hi-Line
Once a year we pack up a U-Haul truck and make the 550-mile trek to Sidney for our working vacation - peddling bratwurst at the Richland County Fair. This mean…
Hey, stupid! Fix health care
The most effective tactic used to stifle debate in politics is name-calling.
The costs and obligations of health care (and freedom)
Everyone loves free stuff - except the people who are paying for it.
Palin's war with media may not be her 'last stand'
President Harry Truman, known as "Give 'em hell Harry," famously said, "I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
D.C. shell game: Now you see it, now you don't!
President Obama's poll numbers were down last week, but poll numbers don't stop a president from doing what he wants to do - not if he controls both houses of …
Notes from an unknown soldier
I was shelving used books at the Soroptimist Thrift Haus in Whitefish last week when I came across a soldier's handbook. The well-worn book - more than 2 inche…
Bushwhacked: My years with W
What is it about George W. Bush that drives people crazy?
Lincoln's warning: Beware changes brought about by 'towering genius'
Barack Obama has made no secret of his admiration for Abraham Lincoln.