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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…
Craziness over fair food runs rampant
I’m in Plains this weekend for the Sanders County Fair, soaking up the last of the fair season as I help my husband and his business partner peddle bratwurst and barbecue to the masses.
Al Jazeera and the soft underbelly of America
Can you imagine Adolf Hitler owning a TV news network that spewed his hateful rhetoric across the United States either before or during World War II?
'Big Brother': When reality TV intersects with 'The Twilight Zone'
Reality is, of course, a rather harsh environment to start with, but when you are talking about reality TV, it can be downright ugly!
The girl who kicked the yellow jacket/wasp/hornet's nest
Dear readers, I stand corrected. Apparently the winged warriors I wrote about two weeks ago are not bees; they’re yellow jackets. At least that’s what several people have told me, based on the fact that the swarm o…
Parades, history and a look at our common heritage
Everybody loves a parade!
Common sense is OK, but it sure can't make pigs fly!
On the subject of immigration, some people try to frame the debate as if you have to be either pro-immigration or anti-immigration.
Angry bees: A new game in the garden
Sting me once, shame on me. Sting me twice and it’s all-out war.
One good reason to be glad Congress gets nothing done
I read Friday that Congress has just begun a luxurious five-week summer vacation as if all its important work were done!
Local history comes alive in new book
It was two years ago this month when I wrote a lengthy column on the history of early Montana explorer Joseph Howse and the search for his connections to the Flathead Valley.
Killer salt and other 'scientific' disasters
Climate change is going to kill your grandkids? You might want to take that “science” with a grain of salt — literally.
Readers get the last word (and one gets the first prize)
It’s been an exciting time at the Daily Inter Lake, as we rolled out our “Your Life Covered” marketing campaign, and there’s plenty of evidence that we’ve actually got Northwest Montana Covered.
Going buggy over ticks
I was so smug when I arrived in Minnesota a few weeks ago and discovered I’d arrived before mosquito season, at least for the most part.
A birthday wish: Don't walk away from doing right
Happy birthday to me — if I have lived that long.
Old jail had laid-back atmosphere
A story I wrote recently about Flathead County making plans to renovate the old jail south of the courthouse prompted a telephone call from Irma Cook Wells of Kalispell, who worked at the jail from 1947 to 1952.
Rewriting history and 'Looking Backward'
One thing that’s incredibly tiresome about being a conservative is how people rewrite history so that they can pigeonhole you as a racist, a fascist or a dangerous radical.