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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.
A pitch for pets in local businesses
I would like to add to Sholeh Patrick’s excellent column, “Research: Do pets really make us healthier” in the Local section Thursday, Oct. 10.
Don't fall for every homeless vet sales pitch
Wednesday’s Coeur d’Alene Press pictured a veteran placing a $100 donation into an ammo box adorned with American flags used by the nonprofit America’s Homeles…
Pleasant and peril converge without H2O
We have a pleasant view but many of us don’t have the extra water to wash the windows.
Truth and transparency
It is sad to see an angry retired blogger pen an attack column repainting the past with glorious colors, while ignoring the severe lack of governmental transparency which infected our city at that time. Those in po…
Success of Cd'A projects proves naysayers wrong
The pounding of hammers and buzz of power saws greet visitors outside the Coeur d’Alene library.
Irresponsible lawmakers and an irresponsible law
The Coeur d’Alene Press published two articles about the Idaho State Legislature passing H.B. 194 (Sept. 25 and 26). Without providing associated funding, which could be considerable, the lawmakers decreed that pub…
Communist Party ambition has no boundaries
Part three of three
Dystopia in the East
Second of three parts
Dystopia in the East
The first of three parts
Sales taxes: Don't tread on me
I’d like to address some unfair sales tax practices.
Beware of for-profit mental hospitals
I recently attended a meeting of 15 to 20 homeowners in the Avondale area to discuss what could be called the invasion of for-profit residential mental hospitals. Three of these businesses are located in walking di…
Riding the road to bike safety - together
I am concerned about Douglas Rivard’s sentiment in a letter to the editor on Aug. 14. I grew up in Kootenai County. On bikes. I used to ride my 10 speed to Bry…
Congress returns to pleas for more gun laws
Do something.
What went way wrong with NIC athletics
The CDA Press and its letters to the editor have provided a primer regarding NIC’s highly damaged athletic program but, as in most controversies, there is much…
Education: Unleash free-market power
At the end of the last century, something remarkable happened. The internet simultaneously exponentially increased the availability of knowledge and reduced th…