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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…
On one fine day, the skating was simply perfect
Do you ever wonder if your childhood memories are as idyllic as you remember them?
From sports to war to the White House: One reporter's adventure in journalism
One pleasure of scanning old Inter Lakes is discovering a familiar name among the ink-stained wretches whose career has ambled through Kalispell at one time or another.
Final word: Lee Oswald either did it or he didn't
The JFK assassination may never be solved completely. Too much time has passed and too many witnesses are dead. But there is also far too much evidence of a conspiracy to ever conclude decisively that Lee Harvey Os…
Vocabulary lessons can be didactic
The first newspaper editor I had as a cub reporter in the late 1970s always encouraged us to use “big” words in our stories.
The tyranny of bureaucracy
Saint Paul noted some 2,000 years ago that the root of all evil is the love of money. A corollary of that prescription might be that the root of all tyranny is the love of other people’s money.
Bankrupting America: Or, Gorbachev's revenge
Intern raises eyebrows among the 'church ladies'
'Run, Brian, Run!' An open letter to Gov. Schweitzer
Amend it, or else ...
I’ve written repeatedly about the mostly unspoken constitutional crisis that has enveloped our country for the past 100 years and have even gone so far as to draft a
Canning mania still in full swing
Canning mania still in full swing
When does 2 plus 2 equal XX?
“How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?”
'These are the times that try men's souls'
Whenever I see that clip of Harry Reid saying he won’t fund cancer research for children, I think of Strother Martin’s famous line from “Cool Hand Luke”: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
'Moral decay' and the rot of paternalism
Last week, I invoked the names of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to trace the roots of American political polarity back to the very foundation of our country.
The struggle for power and the cost of conscience
Nothing about the political battle between conservatives and liberals is new — not the passion, not the beliefs and not the absolute certainty on both sides that the country is doomed.
If the high heel fits, proceed with caution
My oldest daughter used to have a real passion for high heels when she lived in the Lower 48. Now that she’s officially an Alaskan — she gets her first Permanent Fund dividend this year — the stilettos have been si…