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MY TURN: North Idaho College is proof voting works
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Ode to the prep class of 2014
As I listened to the precocious, eloquent graduating high school senior explore the nature and styles of leadership at home and abroad, the wheels of my memory raced back to a time of delivering lectures about lead…
What a load - to cover
I am writing in reference to the article dated Tuesday, May 20, by Brian Walker titled COVER THAT LOAD. The story details the efforts of the county sheriff's office to educate residents concerning the law requiring…
A Memorial Day to remember
The grand opening of McEuen Park next weekend will be the culmination of 17 years of planning, funding and dreaming on the part of many people. As with any great improvements, community projects of this magnitude d…
Bible not in conflict with science
There has been a recent spate of letters to the Editor and a My Turn column on the theory of evolution. While these letters ping-pong back and forth, with many feeling that it's wasted paper with neither side convi…
Student volunteers in Guatemala, meets an unlikely professor
I consider myself extremely lucky; with the help of my parents, the fruits of my own labor, grants, loans, and a fine academic adviser, I obtained an excellent education at Whitworth University. Now I am looking fo…
The state of VA healthcare
As a service-connected disabled veteran, a former hospital administrator, and a cancer survivor, I feel uniquely qualified to offer an informed opinion about the state of the Veterans Administration healthcare syst…
Calling all Wintonites back to school
When you think about the elementary school you attended what comes to mind? Do you recall the unique qualities that made your teachers memorable or special, their names? Was it their smile, the sound of their voice…
Know thy candidates ... then cast thy vote
Every so often we hear something that stops us in our tracks and keeps us from going on, or at least going on as the same person we were before. I heard a radio report once, during the first, or maybe the second, C…
Statement for May 5 board meeting
There has been some discussion and frankly disagreement recently about certain of my comments at the January and February board meetings. Specifically when I was asked in the January and February board meetings abo…
Snowbirds are odd ducks
Wanting to escape the cold winter here in Idaho, my husband and I decided to try being snowbirds in Mesa, Ariz. It was mostly a very rewarding experience as the people are friendly and everyone is looking for new f…
Constitution religion clauses inspire debate - and controversy
Going our own way
Many of us have fought against the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) since its inception. Idaho was one of the first states to file a lawsuit challenging the act's constitutionality, but when the U.S. Supreme Cou…
Critiquing the 'evidence' on evolution
In response to Mr. Fulton's and Mr. Ortmann's letters to the editor:
Division, discrimination continue unabated
Where are we and where are we going? To start, we are as usual, so divided it is simply astounding that the country can function at all.
A farewell wish
Everybody is an expert on education, and because public schools have listened to all the "experts" they suffer from an identity crisis that threatens to pull them apart.