Columns
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Northern Pike: Love or hate?
Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing.
Brock out of the hard place
There was a hint sent out Wednesday that Brock Osweiler may be out of football purgatory.
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:
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.
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!
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…
You're thinking too much
We already overthink things in sports.
'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.
Caregivers leave lasting gifts
There are caregivers of all kinds among us — here are a few recent stories of their good work.
All in on the Northwest bandwagon
This isn’t how most people would’ve seen the Final Four playing out.
Is variety really the spice of life?
I’m a creature of habit.
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.”
Player rest is good for fans
The NBA, we’re told, has a problem on its hands.
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.”
A birthday surprise
An exuberant bunch of first-graders joined forces recently to wish their teacher a happy birthday.
Donald Trump, Huxley and the 'enemies of freedom'
It was the tweet heard round the world.