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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…
Trick or truth! Can you even tell the difference?
What if everything you know is fake?
Season doesn't go up in smoke
Mom's life work was service to other people
Every June when the peonies were in full bloom, my mother would cut a bouquet of flowers, load up me and my middle brother in the family car and drive a mile down the road to visit my dad’s elderly bedridden Aunt S…
A front-row seat at the culture war
Is it just me, or has the culture war between right and left been escalating wildly over the past few months?
Draft running long
The NFL Draft hasn’t even started yet and I’m ready for it to be over.
Trophy rainbow trout to be had this month
“Are you SURE that’s a rainbow?”
From clean to green
From Clean the Falls to Clean the Fish, folks in the Flathead faithfully support and care about their communities. Recent cleanup events around the valley are a good example.
Haunted by the ghosts of Benghazi
It’s about time.
Save criticism for the deserving
America’s righteous indignation machine is revving on all cylinders this week. Shaming anyone and everyone it can in order to make itself feel morally superior.
Let's build a fence around John Boehner
The last few weeks I’ve explored ways in which liberals have worked to undermine conservatives in the American political scene. This week, let’s look at one typical instance of so-called conservatives shooting them…
Back in Boston
The difference a year makes.
Sturgeon frenzy on the lower Columbia
With the kids both living in the Portland area, I enjoy my visits there and it usually allows me a day of fishing.
Horsemen contribute mightily to woods work
Back Country Horsemen of the Flathead was founded in 1973 by four friends who were avid hunters and horsemen with a desire to preserve the heritage of wilderness packing in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and all of Mo…
Another sign of the times
You can call it a symbol or you can call it a coincidence, but I had a phone call on Good Friday which gave me a perfect column for this Easter Sunday.
Class A in flux
A lot of change happened in Montana high school athletics this week.