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Peak deer season has arrived
For the thousands of local deer hunters who have not notched their deer license this year, your time has arrived.
COLUMN: GOP suicide and other liberal leaps
Longtime Clinton operative James Carville said last week that the Republican Party is committing suicide by supporting Donald Trump.
TERRY COLUMN: Getting the bad side of bye weeks
Class AA football is seeing a shift in its schedule for the first time in more than a decade.
COLUMN: It's a dog's life for Minnesota mayor
COLUMN: Who's scarier? Republicans or refugees?
A family of six Congolese refugees arrived in Missoula last week to begin their new life far from the Tanzanian refugee camp where they had lived for many years.
COLUMN: Glacier looks to continue unprecedented success
Even as the world continually changes, some things remain the same.
As summer wanes, fall hunting season beckons
I love summer. I love fishing with my boat. I don’t know what is more challenging — catching fish or trying to understand my electronic fish-finder.
COLUMN: A primer for Republicans on how to lose elections
COLUMN: Crash landing at mutton busting
Standing outside the wind-swept rodeo arena at the Flathead County Fairgrounds on Thursday night, a joke kept popping into my head.
It's a full moon: fear or fever?
Like many anglers, I am always working on that “edge,” where I am in a constant state of anticipation of the next “killer day” of fishing.
COLUMN: Auf Wiedersehen, Mr. Klassen
The older you get the more inevitable it becomes that people you know and love are plucked away by death.
COLUMN: Carrying a burning passion for news too far?
Usually when I “make the front page,” it means I am designing tomorrow’s paper and building the page for our Daily Inter Lake readers, but two weeks ago, I actually made the front page the hard way — I was in the n…
COLUMN: Help on the road is invaluable
Recent headlines in the Inter Lake show folks in Northwest Montana still know how to be Good Samaritans.
COLUMN: 'Mediagate,' the scandal you won't hear about on cable news
In the last two weeks, it has become obvious that a political scandal is unfolding which exceeds in scope anything seen previously in our country’s 240-year history.
COLUMN: Imitate a perch to get whitefish
It’s been almost 10 years since the last great year for limits of whitefish on Flathead Lake. There are some fish being caught out on Flathead, in fact in lots of places, just not the numbers we grew so used to dur…
TERRY COLUMN: Welcome back to our cyclical sports
Welcome back to our cyclical sports