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End of a local radio era
Kerri Thoreson remembers when the lights went out on KVNI-1080 radio because she literally flipped the studio swit…
Tribute to outspoken Americans
During this Fourth of July weekend, we would like to offer the following, as an example of an "American Hero."Tom Akren, whom most will recognize by his many "letters to the editor" within this publication over the…
Fabulous Fourth by the numbers
In a few days Americans will celebrate our nation's 234th birthday. We'll do so with $212 million worth of domestically produced fireworks and waving some of the $301 million in flags and patriotic banners manufact…
Here's why I love living here
Another Ironman Coeur d'Alene is in the rearview mirror and it was a great one.
Food is not the enemy
"I just ate a radish and feel so fat," a 14-year-old girl shyly declares to herself as she looks into the mirror at her skinny, naked body.
Modesty a matter of perception
Beauty isn't the only thing in the eye of the beholder. Modesty, including what is and isn't considered sexually inviting or immoral, is probably the aspect of human life most dependent upon culture and individual …
Millions of acres in Canada will go unplanted
Not only have we received near-record rains since El Nino died in the waters of the Pacific Ocean early this past spring, but millions of acres of crops in the western half of Canada won't be planted this cool, sog…
Please vote yes for our schools
Congressman Walt Minnick is in North Idaho this week. We're always pleased to see him here, but especially now since - very soon, perhaps before the Fourth of July - he will have the opportunity to help save severa…
Idaho doctors can offer a compassionate option
Compassion & Choices works in courts, legislatures and communities to protect and expand individual rights and liberties at the end of life. We work to improve end-of-life care in many ways, promoting policies to i…
Please, don't die in Idaho
Perhaps, we should inform all our elderly friends and relatives they should not move to Idaho. Maybe, we should go so far as to tell all of our friends and relatives regardless of age not to even visit us. Don't ha…
Legalized Murder, Inc., is on the horizon
Look out, Idaho. The proponents of legalizing physician assisted suicide are headed this way!
Patient rights trump providers'
Human beings have a disturbing tendency to want to control one another. Perhaps it's a form of insecurity - the idea that somehow if we can make others do or be or think the same way as ourselves, or the way we wan…
Attacking the root causes of obesity
Obesity is becoming our nation's top healthcare concern with little relief in sight.
Sayler sails into retirement
Toni Sayler is one smart cookie. Having been in the trenches with the Coeur d'Alene Chamber for nearly a quarter centur,y she knows why people come here to visit ... summer. So planning her retirement to fall just …
Democracy requires civic engagement
James Madison wrote that "a popular government, without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
A cross-examination of the science of global warming
A loyal Coeur d'Alene Press subscriber, Jerry Boyd, sent me the following article regarding alleged anthropologic (manmade) climate changes.