NEWS: How to keep up

North Idaho politics and the situation at NIC: These are important concerns in our community. Voters must inform themselves — and vote.

Sadly and amazingly, the majority of our citizens are woefully uninformed and unaware of the uneasy political climate of North Idaho.

I thank the Coeur d’Alene Press for coverage of our local scene and for the information I have acquired, but too few citizens subscribe to your paper, the only ongoing source of current events in our area.

How does one know what is happening locally if he doesn’t read or talk about it? Our community is blessed to have kept our local newspaper. Many towns have lost theirs.

How can we educate the unhearing? More subscribers to Coeur d’Alene Press would help. But how do we accomplish that?

A small action would be for subscribers to suggest their friends sign up for The Press. They might find it far better than expected.

Prompting me to write this letter was the appearance on my doorstep of a newspaper “The People’s Pen.” It represents one side of the story of North Idaho politics. And it was widely circulated.

How do we educate voters to all sides of the story? There’s much to be explained.

ELLEN LEWIS

Hayden Lake