Column

The canceled neo-Nazi parade in Whitefish, Mont., this month reminds this columnist of a 1999 parade in downtown Coeur d'Alene, led by Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler. The racist from Hayden Lake was then 82 and still spewing hatred. He attracted less than two dozen to the march, including a baby in a stroller and her 6-year-old sister. The march also attracted a large crowd of chanting protesters.

On the flip side, it’s easy to right a wrong.

Chocolate and dogs don’t mix.

He helped stave off a depression. He opened the doctor’s office to millions of Americans, changing the country’s fundamental expectations about health care. He got Osama bin Laden.

When two neighborhood children showed up at the front door of Casa Oliveria in Coeur d’Alene, they wanted to shovel the driveway for money. Their snow shovels were as big as they were. They didn’t get the shoveling job. But the fresh-baked cookies that they received were worth punching the doorbell. However, they wanted more than one cookie apiece.

Decades don’t dull the senses.

Spokane: Kicking Seattle’s and Portland’s butts in snow management since 1873

Spokane lost a hero last week, when Col. Charles Stratton died. Stratton

Idahoans think the state is generally on the right track, according to the latest Idaho Policy Survey, published Friday by Boise State University. “They’re also optimistic about the future,” said BSU political science Professor Justin Vaughn. “This was true from last year when we did this study, it’s even more so this year.”

There’s snow much to do.

Lindsey Rasmussen is a determined 23-year-old. That determination helped her get into a top-notch dental school at Loma Linda University in California. That determination also enabled her to get married at the Fort Ground Chapel in Coeur d’Alene and squeeze in a Christmas holiday honeymoon, too. In the process, she endured a cold photo shoot for wedding pictures on the shore of Lake Coeur d’Alene. In late December.

The DMV offers a real slice of life look at Spokane.

It’s not just another Friday.

When Michigan billionaire and school “reformer” Betsy DeVos goes before senators for confirmation hearings as education secretary next Tuesday, Sen. Patty Murray will have a few questions.

Shoot first for longevity.

That woman standing behind Michelle Obama at the first lady’s farewell speech last week looked familiar because she was Jeralyn Mire, the 2016 Idaho School Counselor of the Year, was captured smiling in several Associated Press photos and on TV during the emotional speech.

Mac McCormick, 72, is a true believer in his family, in paying cash, and in solar energy.

Coeur d’Alene Deputy City Administrator Sam Taylor was thinking dark thoughts about his Honda Civic after he got stuck in an unplowed Post Falls street just out of his driveway Monday. But he had no such thoughts for his boss, Coeur d’Alene City Administrator Jim Hammond, who dropped everything to pick up his snowbound assistant and bring him to work.

The one good thing about Snowmageddon is that it’s perfect soup and stew weather.