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Sandy Emerson's Chamber legacy
I first met Sandy Emerson in fall 1984, when he managed the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce from a small building on what is now the northeast corner of The …
MY TURN: From crisis to crisis with no loss of enthusiasm
For more than two years, Kootenai Health has been in a state of crisis management; first with the COVID-19 pandemic response, then (and still) with a health ca…
OPINION: No to the Belt and Road Initiative in Hayden
There is a plan afoot to develop land for storage units at the Coeur d’Alene Airport/Pappy Boyington Field, in Hayden. On the surface, this seems like a health…
MY TURN: Levy supports safe, operational schools
The words reasonable and responsible keep coming to mind as we think about the School Safety and Deferred Maintenance levy on the August 30 ballot. All five…
MY TURN: 'And then they came'
The 1946 Holocaust poem "First They Came" by German Pastor Martin Niemöller was the genesis for the foregoing words. His poem's a chilling reminder of the dangers of failing to confront extremism. It echoes down th…
COMMENTARY: Elephant Metamorphosis
There are two types of people who get into politics; those that are called to serve and those that desire to rule. The natural evolution of governmental system…
Summer heat tips
Especially after that prolonged winter weather, the sunshine has been great.
COMMENTARY: Justice building expansion deserves support
In 2000, just under 109,000 people called Kootenai County home. Eight total judges served the county’s courts, including one whose position was created just tw…
COMMENTARY: 'Wasted in the filth of fendings and provings?'
Partisan politics as an unrestrained blood sport is at least as old as America itself. And yet, Americans, and Idahoans, are showing signs of exhaustion with p…
Historic log house finally returned to glory
Saving a historic structure
How many lives do you have?
We don’t really have one life.
Normal versus average temperatures
Each day in the Coeur d’Alene Press, we publish the weather forecasts that include the “normal” temperature and precipitation figures for that particular day.
When there were snakes in Stateline
Once upon a time, in Stateline, there was a Snake Pit, with real snakes.
MY TURN: Reproductive Health
Protecting women’s access to reproductive health care is imperative. Let’s start with the definition of reproductive: life-giving, procreative, reproducing. Antonyms of reproductive are the destruction of life-givi…
MY TURN: KCRCC supports and pays 'antisemitic' white nationalist
Brent Regan and his Kootenai County Republican Central Committee (KCRCC) have twisted the truth yet again. They say they do not support him, but they selected avowed antisemite and white nationalist David Reilly as…