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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…

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
'Our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor'

It is worth remembering, as we conclude the Fourth of July weekend, that if hard times are ahead, harder times yet are behind us.

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
'Staycation' may be the ticket this summer

Here are some vacation tips I can relate to: Volvo Cars of North America this week issued a press release about how to have fun and relaxation on just a quarter tank of gas.

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
The truth is up there

If you were addicted to the innovative television show "The X-Files" as I was in the 1990s, then you know that "The truth is out there." You also know that you should "Trust no one."

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
Tech support for the clueless

It seems that the first thing you are asked when you call tech support for a computer, for instance, is a very basic insulting question such as whether the computer is plugged in or if you've tried restarting it.

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
After winning contest, I'll have it 'maid' in the shade

I've always aspired to having a clean house, a really clean house, but living with slobs most of my life hasn't helped my cause. Now I may have stumbled upon a way to actually get the dream clean I've been longing …

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
Haditha: A media-made 'atrocity'?

The New York Times referred to the deaths of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha as the "defining atrocity" of the Iraq War.

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
Storm damage is all relative

Last week's snow was a bit annoying for a few reasons.

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
The persecution of Mark Steyn, or why I am glad I'm not Canadian

I don't have it too bad.

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
Amtrak ride 'like a box of chocolates'

Remember Forrest Gump's famous line? "My momma always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.'"

Updated 17 years, 11 months ago
Obama's wee small promises

I see that Sen. Obama in his coronation speech the other night promised to turn back the waters of the ocean - or did he say he had already done it?

Updated 18 years ago
Scenes from a local version of 'The Birds'

A few people close to me have a great appreciation for birds that I don't quite understand.

Updated 18 years ago
Just a pawn in their game

It is ironic that liberals, who generally don't believe in absolute truth in religion, swear upon it in politics.

Updated 18 years ago
Barbie couldn't compete with the boy toys

I chuckled a few weeks ago when National Public Radio teased a business story with this line: "And the last word is Barbie - flat. We're talking about sales."

Updated 18 years ago
Speak up now, or lose your voice forever

In my column last week, I made a rather quick comment about how the country is endangered by a current tendency of people not to "speak up and say what they believe."

Updated 18 years ago
The mob rules during local presidential stop

I've experienced two "mosh" pits in my life - on the floor of the Tacoma Dome for a Green Day concert and Tuesday at Flathead Valley Community College when President Bill Clinton decided to walk a rope line.