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Giving Together: Turning Tax Season into Opportunities for Students
On a spring morning in Kalispell, a group of elementary students huddle around a table, testing a small robot they…
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.
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.