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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…
Fighting for your rights: Ukraine gets it
Life's a beach for fleeing Minnesotans
I got in on the tail end of the first Polar Vortex that gripped Minnesota a couple of weeks ago when I went home for my mother’s 85th birthday celebration.
'If football were politics' - and other opium dreams
If the Super Bowl were what the average Washington pundit thinks politics is supposed to be, then we would have spent the past two weeks reading about how the two opposing teams were looking forward to working toge…
Iran's nukes are no joke
There are some things about which I can take pleasure in saying, “I told you so,” but a nuclear Iran is not one of them.
Thankfully, my waitress career was short-lived
I ran across a couple of statistics recently that made me remember my short-lived career as a waitress during college.
'No truth and no consequences'
One week before the 2012 election, as it stood apparent that President Obama would easily defeat challenger Mitt Romney, I wrote a column cautioning that re-election would not insulate the Obama administration from…
How about them Seahawks? On second thought, don't tell me!
A few pet peeves trump resolutions
Instead of making a list of New Year’s resolutions I’m certain to break before the month is out, I’ve decided instead to itemize some of my biggest pet peeves.
Off the grid and on target: One man's response to political correctness
The collapse of civilization is a fun place to visit in movies like “Apocalypse Z” or books like “Alas, Babylon,” but I wouldn’t want to live there.
A mother's love trumps medical know-it-alls
One of the most heart-breaking medical tragedies of recent years occurred earlier this month when a 13-year-old girl woke up from surgery for a tonsillectomy, asked for a popsicle, and then started bleeding profuse…
The ghosts of Christmas past come calling
Every year about this time things happen that prompt flashbacks to those Christmas memories of yesteryear.
Government health-care diagnosis: Dependency
The claim: The United States is the richest nation in the world, and as a matter of decency should pay for the health care of all Americans who can’t afford to pay for their own.
A life of kindness and a lesson in neighborliness
Living across the street from Bill Yackey for the better part of 25 years meant that I got to know first-hand what it was like to live in the world of Norman R…
On one fine day, the skating was simply perfect
Do you ever wonder if your childhood memories are as idyllic as you remember them?
From sports to war to the White House: One reporter's adventure in journalism
One pleasure of scanning old Inter Lakes is discovering a familiar name among the ink-stained wretches whose career has ambled through Kalispell at one time or another.