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Updated 2 days, 16 hours ago

6 feet and beyond: That would be Wilde

What happens when you clear 5 feet, 6 inches in the high jump as a high school senior?

Updated 17 years, 7 months ago
A beneficial mix of art and science

Art and science came together in a magnificent way last week when members of Smuin Ballet danced before a full house in the new Performing Arts Auditorium in Whitefish.

Updated 17 years, 7 months ago
McCain's ignoble failure to ignite

What is wrong with John McCain?

Updated 17 years, 7 months ago
It's the judges who need a legal guardian

Rule of law in this country has been replaced by rule of judges.

Updated 17 years, 7 months ago
Hunting for the elusive ellipsis

In case you missed it, Sept. 24 was a very important day. It was National Punctuation Day, the holiday that reminds America that a "semicolon is not a surgical procedure."

Updated 17 years, 7 months ago
The Palin Test: A liberal litmus for the media

If you were uncertain why people don't like and don't trust the mainstream media, all you have to do is look at the treatment of Sarah Palin and you will get the picture. Reactions to her have become a virtual litm…

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
Our nation's soundtrack is rich, graceful

Growing up in the late 1950s and early '60s, before rock 'n' roll took root, there was a sweep and syncopation to American music that mirrored the power of the American story.

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
A beneficial mix of art and science

Art and science came together in a magnificent way last week when members of Smuin Ballet danced before a full house in the new Performing Arts Auditorium in Whitefish.

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
'The Sheep Look Up' and see … what?

There's an excellent science fiction novel from the 1970s called "The Sheep Look Up," in which John Brunner creates a bleak world full of pollution, corporate greed, governmental manipulation, technological inadequ…

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
Diets of our dads are food for thought

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
'The Sheep Look Up' and see … what?

There's an excellent science fiction novel from the 1970s called "The Sheep Look Up," in which John Brunner creates a bleak world full of pollution, corporate greed, governmental manipulation, technological inadequ…

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
Diets of our dads are food for thought

I don't remember how we got on the subject, but banter in the newsroom one recent day focused on the weird combinations of food our parents ate or still eat.

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
Mrs. Palin goes to town

Don't count out small-town America.

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
Bush, Barack, Big Mac: recipe for disaster … ?

Who knows how much more damage George W. Bush can do to the country before he leaves office in January. Take your pick: A war with Iran. A war with Russia. Surrender to Mexico. Close Gitmo. Pardon Osama bin Laden's…

Updated 17 years, 8 months ago
Straight talk about curly hair

I may have to get a perm.

Updated 17 years, 9 months ago
Usual '2 cents' column delayed by rain

This column reminds me of the ?modified limited hangout? made famous by John Ehrlichman during Watergate. You remember John Ehrlichman, don?t you? You remember Watergate, don?t you?