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.
A century of football: The 'ideal' and risk of 'decadence'
The Super Bowl will be played today between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons. Longtime readers of this column will know that, as a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan, I had hoped for a different outcome e…
Not all refugees are welcome
For years, left-wingers would contest my use of the term “open borders lobby” because, they sternly rebuked me, nooooobody in America seriously believes in open borders.
Speedy 'Cat heading to Griz
Braxton Reiten had one of the most remarkable senior seasons in the history of football in the Flathead Valley.
Local man rises to occasion when he's accosted on plane for supporting Trump
Millions of people saw the video last week of an airplane passenger being accosted by a woman who was angry at him for saying that he was in Washington, D.C., to “celebrate democracy” rather than to protest Donald …
GOOD NEWS: Five-star customer service
From the reviews, Vinny’s Grill & Sushi Restaurant in downtown Polson is a busy, people-pleasing kind of place.
Ultrasound: The anti-science left's bugaboo
Abortion extremists are the new Luddites.
Busy week without games
The Glacier and Flathead boys basketball teams have played a combined one game in the last 12 days.
Trump's victory was on shoulders of American people
It was approximately 18 months ago when I wrote my first column about Donald Trump. Like many of the columns I have written before and after it, the focus was illegal immigration.
Grandparenting can quickly become an obsession
I think I might be addicted to my granddaughter.
Earning a win in 10 seconds or less
Blink and you could miss it.
In Montana, love your neighbor is not just talk
“I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up.” —Martin Luther King Jr.
No headline
With the “Polar Express” rolling through Montana the past couple of weeks, forest fires may be far from most folks’ daily concerns.
A deep and abiding respect for winter
As I filled up my gas tank earlier this week before the deep freeze descended upon the Flathead, Dad’s voice was drumming in my head.
Fake news, or: 'The Art of the Fail'
In the old days, philosophers used to meditate about how many angels could fit on the head of a pin. These days, deep thinkers want to know how much fake news CNN can squeeze into an hour.
Nothing wrong with relaxing
There are a lot of things about the day-to-day conversation of sports media and the athletes they cover that bother me as a sane, rational individual.