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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…
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.
Farewell from a giant Thomas Sowell writes his final column
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Daily Inter Lake has proudly run Thomas Sowell’s column since Jan. 2, 2010. Today, we mark the transition as Michelle Malkin picks up his m…
A triumph nothing short of miraculous
By FRANK MIELE
Jumping the firing gun
Two years isn’t enough.
Where on earth is peace?
In the early 1990s when I was working at the Hungry Horse News, a huge semi-truck came through Columbia Falls and ripped away the “Peace” sign tethered between two light poles on U.S. 2, carrying the town’s banner …