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MY TURN: North Idaho College is proof voting works
There will always be a need to safeguard the gemstone of our community.
Abortion and our civil rights
Abortion is a Crime Against Humanity. In its Selfishness, its indifference to the Rights and Welfare of other people, and for the harm it does to our Moral Values, it is a crime against us all. In many ways Abortio…
Not all lawsuits frivolous
In response to the letter to the editor by Tad Leach:
Local perspective needed for county land-use code
Zoning has been set up which will be unfavorable to many and extremely favorable to a few. And it has been done arbitrarily without support from the Comprehensive Plan, actual uses on the ground or any county files…
Summer theater must be accountable
I've listened to the recent dire cries for donations for CDA Summer Theatre, including those from Ellen Travolta and CST management in these pages. Personally and as a business owner, I have supported CST for over …
Forest Service plan preposterous
The Coeur d'Alene National Forest is the most heavily roaded and one of the most devastated of all the forests in the entire National Forest system, containing some 9,000 miles of logging roads - an average of 10 m…
Teachers, schools: Ask more of students
I agree with every point that Mr. Ruskovich made in his article on tips for parents, but the way he started the column made me apprehensive to read it.
A 'senior' teacher's tips for parents
As a new school year approaches with one public education issue after another, it seems parents might find it useful to put aside politics and focus on what their children really need to succeed in school - and I'm…
Education News walks a fine line of credibility
Sen. Branden Durst's recent op-ed critiquing Superintendent Luna's "end around" the Idaho Legislature, and his subsequent analysis of GOP political genealogy, has merit, especially as it relates to a newly minted n…
It's time to suspend Obama
When we lived in Detroit in 1944-48, I drove to graduate school through a part of town where manufacturing plants abounded. I had always believed in "Creation" until one night when I was awakened by a great explosi…
If you can't stand the heat . . .
It's very unfortunate that the climate has become such a political football. It does little good to participate in grade-school name-calling. (And yes, even some "greenies" like me drive a Hemi.)
GOP central committee: Some things never change
Parkinson's law of triviality, first mentioned in C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 book Parkinson's Law, and Other Studies in Administration, states that: "The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse p…
We are 'Lucky' to know our Rathdrum dog
Lucky was born somewhere around Rathdrum and family legend has it he was begging for an old man's hot dog when the man complained and Animal Control stepped in.
Wanted: Pastors willing to speak on the record
There have been a lot of letters lately about churches, Christianity, and pastoral comments concerning controversial issues. While a fairly new Christian (7 years), I have nonetheless been an avid student of the Bi…
Missing the difference in marriage
In the "My Turn" column in the July 19 Cd'A Press, W. Thomas Faucher purports to contrast the Sacrament of Matrimony with natural marriage. But Fr. Faucher did not accurately describe the properties essential to ei…
Let's outsource radical GOP
The Wednesday, July 24, Coeur d'Alene Press featured a double-header attack on public schooling from Brent Regan and Ronald Deady. After public schools have been strangled to the point where some are down to teachi…