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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.
What's with this town?
I am in the publishing business myself and have been following a case from the prosecutor's office in Coeur d'Alene concerning its attempt to prosecute Joel Diekhoff on behalf of one Demetrius Lee. The prosecutor's…
Insights into an Aryan assault
Last week (9/21/11) on Idaho PBS, my wife and I watched the documentary entitled "The Color of Conscience" concerning, mainly, the Aryan Nations' presence in North Idaho. As the program progressed, we couldn't help…
Alarms sounding on online classes
Mr. Deide misrepresents the Idaho Education Association and public school teachers in his recent column (Sept. 19).
Rural folk shouldn't pay for Cd'A 'dream'
I think by now everyone in Kootenai County understands how the LCDC, in particular, and tax-increment financing in general work: that citizens county-wide are asked to subsidize high-tax revenue generating projects…
Raider fans love football, not fighting
As a long time Oakland Raider fan I found the recent "My Turn" column in The Press very disturbing.
In search of the first mover
Recently The Discovery Channel debuted the first segment of its new Curiosity series with a most provocative episode entitled, "Did God Create the Universe?"
Bring the thunderboats back, Cd'A
In the mid-1960s, my buddy and I took his orange VW bug and drove from Moscow to Coeur d'Alene to watch the thunderboats. A trip to Coeur d'Alene was "really cool" since the good-looking girls lived in the Lake Cit…
Who will answer calls for help?
She turned and walked away, with nowhere to go. There apparently wasn't enough room, and she had not said the qualifying and final words required to get in. Up and down her arms were cuts, intentional and deep, bea…
A role in 'Faust' that's just super
Last spring at Opera Coeur d'Alene's fundraiser we successfully bid on an opportunity to be a supernumerary for the upcoming production of "Faust." Supers are extras who stand around holding spears or other objects…
No defense for this outrageous spending
Seeing the front page of The Press (Sept. 9 issue) raised a sore point I've had for years, when one of my children, a U.S. Marine, was stationed in Okinawa. I was told that the Marine Corps hired local Okinawans fo…
KHS: An advocate for the animals
It is true what is said that there are two sides to every story, and we would like to tell of our experiences as volunteers at Kootenai Humane Society.
McEuen: To assumeis to take wrong path
I am addressing the comments made by Rita-Sims Snyder and Julie Clark regarding the Park and/or parking lot at the proposed McEuen Park site. Several points in their comments were misleading and this will clarify t…
Workshop navigates through grief
Grief: everyone experiences it. While the word is more often used following a death, people grieve many kinds of loss: the end of a relationship; the loss of a job, limb, or health; a newly empty nest; even the los…
Raider fans are the problem
I possessed 49er season tickets for 35 years, prior to moving to Northern Idaho. The problem with violence of fans is escalated anytime the Raiders play. Each year the Niners play the Raiders in preseason, probably…
KHS: Organization going to the dogs
Recently, Coeur d'Alene received the prestigious title of Dog Town USA - but not all is well in paradise. Let's look at the Kootenai Humane Society (KHS), where volunteer dog walkers have experienced a realm of emo…