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FERGUSON: No joy to be found
Today I’m just sad in so many ways. I’m sad for the 18-year-old, who, on that day, turned from the gentle giant his parents knew to an angry thug. Sad for the parents who lost the gentle giant they knew. Sad for th…
DOWNTOWN: You light up my life
Kudos to the downtown association for the job they did this year lighting the trees downtown. Walking down Sherman the other night, the lighting was better than I have ever seen it downtown. The trees look GREAT! T…
CORRUPT: Keep eye on Idaho
I have recently become aware of the disgusting activities of Governor Otter regarding the school financing and the Education Networks of America. I have always been a conservative, generally voting Republican altho…
WEATHER: Now, that's cold!
I know some people will say I am making this up, but Monday morning while driving to town it was so cold, I saw a teenager with his pants pulled all the way up!
TRAPPING: Shades of Arfee slaying
Where are all the Arfee fans when it comes to pets being killed by local trapping? One dog is killed by gunshot and the whole community rages about it for months. Two pet dogs (that we know of) are killed by traps …
Press editorial: In defense of a champion
Business people get a charge out of a big sale.
ACA: Check your sources
Regarding Dale Hedman’s letter printed Nov. 21, he needs to check his source more carefully. Jonathan Gruber, an MIT Economist, was a paid consultant on the Affordable Health Act as well as on Vermont’s and Michiga…
MILLIE: Favorable consequences
Cool it folks — we need more letters like Millie’s. It may keep more of those kooks from coming up here. Maybe that was her motive (tongue in cheek) for writing it. She may even love it up here.
COLUMN: Stick to weather, Cliff
Cliff, you are full of comforting news. First the famine! Did you think we needed that? Second, since when have you become a financial forecaster? You are just full of positive news.
ARTICLE: Local is always better
I find it inexcuseable that the Press had to “import” an article for Thursday’s Outdoor section about Casting for Recovery in Sisters, Ore. Casting for Recovery is alive and well right here in North Idaho, and has …
DIVERSITY: One man's opinion
Please permit me to elaborate on the recent interview in The Coeur d’Alene Press regarding my critique of the PBS documentary “Our Private Idaho.”
CALM: Cheers for performance
The Coeur d’Alene Modern Theatre, formerly Lake City Playhouse, gave an outstanding performance of “All is Calm” (The Christmas Truce of 1914). The historical story was expertly told and the music was sung to perfe…
The giving gets going
It's better to give, as you well know.
DIVERSITY: Plays on white guilt
I have never wished to respond to a letter posted in the newspaper, but this biased gay lobby diatribe blaming all ills on the “white man” (white factor) has sent me over the limit. Tony Stewart reflects the standa…
THANKS: Words of Washington
Thought it would be good to see how our first president, George Washington declared a national day of Thanksgiving, which in part read: