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Saluting our veterans
This Veterans Day has special significance. Our troopers from Idaho's 116th Brigade Combat Team, deployed in harm's way in Operation New Dawn in the ancient land of Mesopotamia, are back home! For a year in 2010-20…
An open letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President:
KHS volunteers welcome to be seen, not heard
Re: "Tough Times for Kootenai Humane Society" Cd'A Press, Oct. 13, 2011
Here comes Geezer Brigade
They like to refer to us as senior citizens, old fogies, geezers.
Post Falls urban renewal: It works
Many articles have been written about the pros and cons of urban renewal in the State of Idaho. We, the Post Falls Urban Renewal Commission, would like to take this opportunity to share with you, from our point of …
Autism Society makes a difference
Advocate. This is a title I thought I'd never hold. My other titles are Wife, Mother, Friend, Chauffeur, Cook, Maid and Chief Boo-boo Fixer. And now Volunteer, Advocate, President.
Satan is in a cell phone
I grew up in a conservative Christian church with a robustly literal view of Satan. He was pictured as an actual being with mind-invading capacities for temptation and an insatiable lust for doing evil. Despite my …
'I was there'
"I was there." Those are three powerful words in the right circumstances. They imply a first-hand knowledge that only a few can legitimately claim. In grade school we were taught that primary sources, those who wer…
Actually, it's warm in here
The Press headline article October 25, 2011 titled "Left Out in the Cold" by reporter Tom Hasslinger really bothered me. I felt it was a little misleading especially with the first sentence "A financial shortfall w…
Little Linda stands tall now
At the Kootenai County Fair, I witnessed a so-called attraction that I hadn't seen since my childhood at circuses during the 1950s in Moscow, Idaho. That was the display of "little Linda" - loudly announced by a lo…
We can't print our way out of debt
While listening to the experts in our nation's Capitol toss around phrases like "cutting spending, raising taxes, debt ceiling, holding the line, and stimulating the economy, etc." reminded me of a comedian convent…
Honor original Easton purpose
There has been a great deal of discourse over the proposed sale of Camp Easton in exchange for replacement property located at Windy Bay on the opposite shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene. Much of the discussion has been…
IB foes intent on misleading the public
For the past several months I've tried to ignore Mr. Duncan Koler and his personal vendetta against the Coeur d'Alene School District's IB program. My general approach to individuals with strongly held false belief…
Occupy Wall Street should open our eyes
The Academy Award winning 1965 film "Dr. Zhivago" contains a poignant scene that forms a fearful premonition in 2011. In that scene arrogant, wealthy Russians dine in an expensive upstairs Moscow restaurant mocking…
A good way to govern
With many of the local Eastside area residents in attendance at the commissioners special hearing to pass judgment on the proposed three LIDs, it was brought to light that these first-time proposed LIDs were planne…