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Explore Daily Inter Lake Columns featuring local sports commentary, outdoor adventure stories, lifestyle tips, and community perspectives from Northwest Montana.

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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 9 years, 1 month ago
Brock out of the hard place

There was a hint sent out Wednesday that Brock Osweiler may be out of football purgatory.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Trump: Is he the best of a bad lot - or just more of the same?

Last year, I told conservatives who would come to visit me in my office that there were three main things to remember about the presidential election:

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
Help make a mountain of food

There’s more than one way to build a mountain of food and those who want to help the Flathead Food Bank have plenty of opportunities.

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
The Russians are coming, but don't be afraid

You can chalk up one more conservative Trump supporter who got caught talking to Russians and then insisting it was just an innocent conversation!

Updated 9 years, 1 month ago
When the student becomes the mentor

On a blustery April day in 1979, I walked into the newspaper office in the resort town of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and sat down at my desk to begin what is now a 38-year career in journalism. I had worked for a co…

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
You're thinking too much

We already overthink things in sports.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
'America First' is an old and honorable tradition

It never ceases to amaze me how little educated people seem to understand history — let alone learn from it.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Caregivers leave lasting gifts

There are caregivers of all kinds among us — here are a few recent stories of their good work.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
All in on the Northwest bandwagon

This isn’t how most people would’ve seen the Final Four playing out.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Is variety really the spice of life?

I’m a creature of habit.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Community news keeps newspapers as relevant as ever

Among the many fake news headlines making the rounds on the internet, one of the most popular is “Newspapers are dead.”

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Player rest is good for fans

The NBA, we’re told, has a problem on its hands.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Trump's war with CIA was preceded by Kennedy's

The New York Times, in a front-page story, said that the president “wanted to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
A birthday surprise

An exuberant bunch of first-graders joined forces recently to wish their teacher a happy birthday.

Updated 9 years, 2 months ago
Donald Trump, Huxley and the 'enemies of freedom'

It was the tweet heard round the world.