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.
Going into the closet ... and coming out
My daughter Heather’s old bedroom was transformed into a guest room years ago, but her closet had remained untouched, except to pile more stuff on top of so many layers of stuff that nothing short of an archaeologi…
Conferences bursting their own bubbles
It happens every year around this time.
Learning about race from the good folks of the Flathead
It’s been an unexpected pleasure to get to do part of the reporting on the Inter Lake’s series on black history in the Flathead, and as we wind up the series today, I wanted to reflect on some of what we learned.
Scouts great at getting out and about
Boy Scout Troop 1903 in Lakeside has big plans for 2017 that will make Boy Scouts of America shine in its 107th year since its founding in Feb. 8, 1910.
Slaying the title dragon
Columbia Falls has been here before.
'Black in the Flathead': The evolution of a DIL news project
One year ago in January, I was a guest in the Museum at Central School’s John White Speakers Series, where I participated in a panel discussion on “Flathead News.”
Flathead's gym brings its own charm
There’s nothing quite like it.
President's soft on Russia, hard on press? Must be FDR
Treasure state basketball hits homestretch
With all the success of the first two state tournaments of the winter, why not get ready for a few more?
Love is all you need
“Love letters” can take many forms — handwritten, scented and postmarked. A small note tucked into a bouquet. An emoji-laced text message. A heart traced in the steam on the bathroom mirror.
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Trump and FDR: Precedents for a brash president
It’s no wonder that President Trump has been rebuked and challenged by those on the left for his unprecedented mix of brash outspokenness, stubborn determination to remake America, overweening confidence in his own…
Hillary Clinton's 'Future Is Female' femme-a-goguery
All that was missing from Hillary Clinton’s video address to a left-wing women’s group this week was a pink pussyhat and a “BOYS SUCK” T-shirt.
Pistorese plowing path for new year
Baseball season never looked so cold.
Don't let pet peeves turn to road rage
I don’t condone any type of road rage — or traffic tantrums as they’re also called — even if it’s as slight as shaking your finger at another driver. There’s no place for verbal insults or physical threats directed…