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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…
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…
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 …