BILE and FLUB awards: And the winners are...

Ways to solve a museum challenge

On April 6, we discovered there is an urgent need for the Lake City Development Co. and the city of Coeur d'Alene to terminate the decades-long lease that the Museum of North Idaho, Inc. has for its storage buildin…

SB1067 - Pro and Con

• Idaho kids deserve access to child support — Rep. John McCrostie

Child support: Why I care

There's a garbage dump alongside Highway 95 near Sandpoint that my family calls the "Dufort Mall." It's a "ha ha" sort of funny now, but I will never forget watching my mom - partly out of thrift and partly out of …

Grandstanding at expense of Idaho's most vulnerable

An unfortunate split decision by the Judiciary and Rules Committee in the House of Representatives will hurt the most vulnerable in Idaho. Nine members of that committee voted against eight others, including myself…

Digging graves with knives and forks

Food has become the new cigarettes of our time, and sooner or later politicos are going to have to figure out what to do about it.

Let's all proclaim Equal Pay Day

When Doris and Don Fisher opened their small retail store in 1969, they each put up $21,000 in savings and, without even discussing it, paid each other the same salary. That's how equal partnerships work.

Criminals: Little to fear from prosecutor

Attention all scalawags, swindlers, con men, and other scam artists. Consider opening up shop in Kootenai County, Idaho, as you will have little to fear from Prosecutor Barry McHugh or his staff. If you have been f…

Mandate wrong way to raise wages

I'm not an economic expert, but it seems to me that raising the minimum wage by mandate is a shell game.

Living in The Gap

Our Idaho Legislators are packing up and heading home for the interim. While I am sure many of them feel they accomplished something this legislative session and represented their constituents adequately, all of th…

When you're elected, it's your duty to listen

As a Unitarian Universalist minister, I was upset to hear about the three Idaho senators who left the Senate rather than listen to a Hindu prayer. I believe that in a democratic, pluralist society, good leaders nee…

Here's your input, county

On March 24, the Coeur d'Alene Press published an article written by David Cole entitled "Kootenai County seeks input." The "input" the article is talking about is seeking public input on a draft revision of the ex…

Jesus: The precocious socialist?

State legislators, Hindu prayer leaders and NIC have all had a spate of religiosity that has affected our community. Currently, NIC has been involved in a campus-wide effort to read the book "Nickel and Dimed" by B…

ISIS: Ominous shades of Hitler's Germany

ISIS is in the news for its barbaric and torturous advance in Iraq and Syria. According to news reports, it has carried out an attack on a Saudi Arabian border patrol near the city of Arar, which is located northea…

The Dodo Bird Society

It's been a month or so since I wrote a spoof piece hoping to spark a movement to run smart people out of our state.