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Stewart takes campaign gloves off
And so it begins! Tony Stewart's open letter to the mayoral candidates was not only an open letter but a pre-emptive strike signaling the needed divisive issue to obfuscate the real issue of the mayoral campaign an…
Cd'A: Proud to be a city of vision
In the next few months we will be continually bombarded with statements such as Michael Teague's definition of who is running for City Council and
Want to communicate better? Dance
Dancing seems to come more naturally to some than to others. That's clearly demonstrated in our house. I may look ridiculous, but given the right song I can't resist the urge to move, and it always brings me joy. M…
Superfund Straight Talk September 2013
Q: How many tons of lead flow into Coeur d’Alene (CDA) Lake each year?
Midlife crisis
While driving to work last night I see the most beautiful sunset. The sky is orangey-red as half the sun sinks below the pine-lined horizon. The eastern sky slowly fades from blue, purple then indigo as darkness sw…
An open letter to mayoral candidates
Dear
Main Street Birthdays September 18, 2013
Happy Birthday today to Brad Peugh, Eric Benjamin, John Holm, Jennifer Schroeder and Debra Smart. Tomorrow birthdays belong to Rich Kempton, Kara Fredekind, Debbie Sala, Wally Connally, Jeanne Wright, Brock Morrow …
Hometown heroes go off to serve once again
Hayden's "Wolfpack" Army Reserve 455th Engineer Bravo Company is part of the Army Reserve's 321st Engineer Battalion. Originally constituted in the National Army in 1918, the battalion saw action in the Pacific The…
Another side to teachers union
There are many of the "My Turn" columns that need a response, correction or clarification; however, I normally decide to ignore the misinformation and move on. The column in Saturday's paper entitled "Why I belong …
Suicide: Time to shut down the club
It's the kind of club no one wants to join. Yet last August, after years of writing about suicide, our family joined the ranks of survivors left in its wake.
Another ice age is coming, but who knows when
My friend Cecil Hathaway sent me a rather interesting article entitled, "How to Make a Great Ice Age, Again and Again and Again."
Why I belong to a union
"Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost." - Ronald Reagan
Thanks to the donor who saved my life
Today, thanks to a person I will never meet, I will wish myself a Happy Birthday. I was actually born in June 1956. But last year, on Sept. 13, I was fortunate enough to receive a liver transplant at the University…
MLP says less is more
First, your Mrs. Language Person must correct herself. Last month two readers did alert her to her own (No! A redundancy; if it is hers she already owns it) faux-pas of pronoun selection. Case in point: The use of …
Reviving the wild game feast
In a Wednesday, Aug. 21 letter to the editor in this paper, Cecil Kelly III of Coeur d'Alene writes: