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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.
Column on guns is way off target
I cannot help but respond to Sholeh Patrick's column about American gun ownership in Tuesday's edition of The Press.
Legislators, do your job on health care
With regard to Vito Barbieri's recent "My Turn" piece, listening to this state representative try to navigate his way through a tortured argument about why Idaho should abandon its involvement in the Affordable Car…
Post Falls Center is calling you
Dear Seniors and/or fellow members of Post Falls Senior Center:
Health plan just doesn't fit for Idaho
The common belief is that the entirety of the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is now the "law of the land" and must be implemented by the States under penalty of losing existing Medicaid funding. This is not the ca…
SROs are already on the job
Since the tragedy In Newtown, our nation has entered into an important discussion about school safety. A lot has been said about gun control, about mental health, about arming teachers, and about physical security.…
Banning guns won't solve our problems
The emotional ranting of Kathleen Peterson in her MY TURN column probably served as a release for her. I am glad she was able to unload her deeply held feelings. Now she can pack up and head for California where sh…
Doomsday: Self-fulfilling prophesy?
News flash: Doomsday has come and gone - again.
Tribe: Let compromise prevail
It's time to buckle down and address one of the biggest budget issues this country has faced in decades, the "fiscal cliff" - a series of expiring tax cuts and automatic spending cuts that are set to go into effect…
State of our union
Reminds me of the old Israel, the anti God'ers would get the Jews in to their pagan religion and God would cut them off, literally destroy them as a people and lead them in to captivity. This is our country, the on…
Newtown response: Time to close campuses
When a terrible incident like Newtown occurs, we should use the tragedy to openly address the real cause, which is mental illness. Adam Lanza, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, James Holmes, Jared Loughner, Seung Hui Cho…
Time for Idaho to control its own destiny
I think that any opportunity that Idaho has to control its own destiny is one we should jump at. That is why I am glad to see that Gov. Butch Otter has chosen to declare his preference for a state-based health insu…
Culture versus technology
It was the winter of 1937-38 and I was attending a small high school in Hailey, Idaho. The student body was very small, and there was seldom any activity from outside our small realm that influenced us in any way, …
Shooting: Gotta get more God
As we mourn the assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and pray for the victims and the survivors, we also ask ourselves how this can happen in our nation. We ask over and over again "why does t…
Don't make big mistake with busing
At the Dec. 10 meeting of the Coeur d'Alene school board, the issue of contract busing was discussed. After the issue was presented, the decision was made to put out bids for contractors to provide for the Coeur d'…
Christmas dreams of our military brothers
With the holiday season here, we turn our thoughts to Christmas decorations, holiday cheer with family and friends, and of course we look forward to opening those presents under the tree. Houses are lighted along t…