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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…
Plot thickens for online novel
Every now and again conversations in Whitefish circle around to “The Whitefish Novel,” the anonymous online novel that’s as much a social commentary about Whitefish issues as it is a murder mystery.
Horse trading: Swap taxes for transcripts
President Obama and the elves cobbling together his re-election campaign in the basement of the White House annex in Chicago have challenged GOP candidate Mitt Romney to release his tax returns.
Constitution 'vetoes' fundamental change
Last week, we took a look at President Obama’s criticism of the Supreme Court, focusing on his attempt to influence the justices into deciding the health-care case favorably for his administration.
No Easter baskets for you this year
After 27 years of being a parent, I made a big decision this year: I’m not giving my two grown daughters Easter baskets.
President takes aim at Supreme Court - again
When it comes to the justice system, President Obama is a repeat offender.
My official renunciation
This column is dedicated to the people who hate this column (and you know who you are). For once, I am going to write just what you want me to say — crystallized in a series of nuggets that represent the outcome of…
Orwell, the 'truth' and a troubling trend
Ronald Reagan famously joked that “the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”
Columnist still waiting for viral fame
I’ll have to confess I’m a little jealous of Marilyn Hagerty.
What we know, and what we think we know: Poking around the propaganda factory
The president has started his re-election campaign in earnest recently by touting the wonderful state of the economy, his brilliant energy policy, popular health-care reforms, and respect for American traditions an…
A special day for a special lady
From the desk where I am writing this column, I can see eight or 10 shiny balloons, plus tinsel and streamers, hovering above another desk less than 100 feet away.
Roosevelt's legacy: The rest of the story
Last month I wrote a story about Teddy Roosevelt’s many connections to the Flathead Valley and the remnants of those relationships here that still exist, from his cattle brand to a well-worn pair of leather chaps.
Bill of Rights is now Bill of Wrongs
The noose around the neck of liberty just got noticeably tighter.
If we could do it over again...
Editors make a hundred decisions every day — some small and some large. Sometimes those decisions are right, in which case we might get a thank you from the public. Sometimes those decisions are wrong, in which ca…
Encounters on the trail
Imagine my unease and downright trepidation when my daughter — the one who lives in the moose-infested wilds of Alaska, namely Anchorage — leaves the following voice message on my cellphone:
Death of a nation: Five stages of grief
It is painful for me to have to write this column, just as it is always painful to write about the loss of something or someone near and dear to us — but finally the truth must be told: