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EDITORIAL: An easy egg for Cd'A to quack

| July 26, 2024 1:00 AM

There are many complicated, confusing issues that require intensive legal research, public polling and soul searching.

This is not one of them.

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Nobody has to knacker their noodle obsessing over the baffling question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

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The chicken came first. Now it’s time for an egg.

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The pressing matter that awaits Coeur d’Alene City Council action admittedly has some downside — establishment of a precedent populated with poop and a little noise (quack).

But upsides abound.

Living learning laboratories for children in their own backyards.

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A healthy hobby for retirees, the kind that rejuvenates nurturing instincts for any responsible adult but particularly for empty (quack) nesters.

An effective food inflation fighter via a steady supply of nutritious, protein-packed eggs.

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A loneliness eradicator, fine friends that always flock together.

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An increasing local population not only resilient to divisive political, religious and generational fervor, but capable of uniting the community in many ways.

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A gentle infusion of agrarian sense and sensibility into an urban area pining for its more rural roots; a ying to the yang of too many high rises, too many vehicles on streets, too many people toting too many of their trials and tribulations.

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Difficult decision? Hardly.

As the old saying goes, if it walks like a (quack) and talks like a (quack), it’s probably an ordinance revision the City Council shouldn’t duck.