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Updated 3 weeks, 1 day ago

OPINION: Idaho Fish and Game must evolve for the future of wildlife conservation

The challenges of modern wildlife conservation are far more complex than anything managers faced when the Idaho De…

Updated 1 day, 21 hours ago
EDITORIAL: Coeur d'Alene police keep the criminals away

Coeur d’Alene is a place where many people still leave their homes unlocked when they are away at work. It’s a place where people do not fear going for walks at night. It’s a place where you can forget to lock your…

Updated 1 day, 21 hours ago
OPINION: Idaho takes vital step toward addressing doctor shortage by expanding medical education

As a family medicine physician in Boise and president and CEO of Full Circle Health, I have dedicated much of my career to enhancing medical education and addressing Idaho’s physician shortage.

Updated 1 day, 21 hours ago
TOWN HALL: Lawsuit is frivolous

I read the ridiculous Press article today about the Post Falls Democrat agitator who filed a tort claim in Kootenai County for being removed from a “Town Hall” meeting in February. Reportedly removed after repeated…

Updated 1 day, 21 hours ago
MUSEUM: Many hands were involved

Adventure at the museum, where to start?

Updated 1 day, 21 hours ago
DEMOCRATS: Focus on your own house

When reading Evan Koch’s Opinion piece, one might think the nation has suddenly stopped following the rule of law. He suggests people are being picked up as they walk to the immigration court. He wonders why a pers…

Updated 3 days, 21 hours ago
EDITORIAL: Resignation of trustee was necessary

Elected officials are, and must be, held to a higher level of accountability. Their actions, their words, even in private, are magnified because of the position they hold. They represent the people and to do that s…

Updated 3 days, 21 hours ago
BOOK SALE: Raising money this weekend

This weekend, Friends of the Community Library Network are once again holding our annual book sale at the Hayden Library.

Updated 3 days, 21 hours ago
ENDORSEMENT: Vote for Bauman

I would like to state my strong support for Victoria Bauman for the Board of Trustees for the Post Falls Public Library on the May ballot. Victoria supports current board efforts to conform library policies to stat…

Updated 3 days, 21 hours ago
CLN: What’s cloaked behind irony?

Irony often masks concealed truth.

Updated 3 days, 21 hours ago
ENDORSEMENT: Vote for Bauman

Our children are our future, they need to be protected. Remember the adage — garbage in, garbage out? That can be applied to processed food going into your body, profanity heard over the airwaves, or images manifes…

Updated 3 days, 21 hours ago
TOWN HALL: What is the meeting sponsor supposed to do?

When you attend a town hall meeting to listen to a speaker and attendees talk back and forth and someone attempts to disrupt the meeting what should the meeting sponsor do? Nothing? Let them rant? Terminate the mee…

Updated 3 days, 21 hours ago
ENDORSEMENT: Vote for fire department bond

Since 2005, the city of Coeur d’Alene has funded its fire department’s apparatus and facilities through General Obligation Bonds, not out of the city’s General Fund. The bond in 2005 finished Station 3 and Station …

Updated 5 days, 21 hours ago
EDITORIAL: Uniting Idahoans through charitable giving

In a world where we often focus on differences, there are still a few opportunities to unite around a common purpose. Idaho Gives, running from April 28 through May 1, is precisely such an opportunity.

Updated 5 days, 21 hours ago
SHERIFF: Accountable for his actions

At the recent Town Hall event, Mr. Norris, who was not wearing his identifiable sheriff’s uniform, was dressed in unidentifiable tactical gear like the other security, not wearing any form of identification, and ca…

Updated 5 days, 21 hours ago
ENDORSEMENTS: Choose the opposite

I just received my Official Consolidated Election Ballot. Along with it came the Brent Regan party recommended list.